Angel Reese and the Atlanta Dream open the 2026 WNBA Finals on Saturday, Oct. 17, against the Golden State Valkyries at Chase Center in San Francisco. The Dream are chasing the first championship in franchise history. Reese, the league’s Defensive Player of the Year, is the biggest reason many believe they can get it.
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Angel Reese is headed to the WNBA Finals, and she wants the world to know who got her there. After the Atlanta Dream beat the New York Liberty 85 to 83 on Friday, Oct. 9, to finish a semifinal sweep, Reese credited her mother, Angel Webb Reese, the single mom who raised her and her…
Angel Reese is the 2026 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year, and not everyone agrees she should be. The Atlanta Dream forward received 46 of 74 votes from a national media panel when the league announced the award Thursday, Oct. 1. Golden State's Gabby Williams finished second with 20 votes, and Las Vegas star A'ja…
The Atlanta Dream are headed to the WNBA semifinals. They beat the Washington Mystics 93 to 75 on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at CareFirst Arena in Washington, D.C., to finish a sweep of their best of three first round series.
The win sends Atlanta to the semis for the first time since 2018 and gives the…
A'ja Wilson got a technical foul late in Game 2 of the Las Vegas Aces' first round playoff series against the Indiana Fever. She was called for walking toward a fan behind the basket at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Tuesday, Sept. 29. The Fever won 99 to 89 to even the series at one game each.…
Nneka Ogwumike said goodbye to the WNBA on Thursday night, Sept. 24, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. She did it the only way she knows, with 17 points, 15 rebounds and five assists in front of a sold-out crowd of Sparks fans wearing her name on their chests. The scoreboard went to the Golden…
Gauff needed a third set comeback against Mirra Andreeva in the quarterfinals, saving two match points in a tiebreak after losing the first set 6-2 in just 26 minutes, then closed it out 2-6, 7-6(7), 6-2 to set up a semifinal against incoming world No. 1 Elena Rybakina. That win followed a more straightforward fourth…
The four-time Grand Slam champion opens up about growth, family, and why this US Open exit feels different.
Naomi Osaka's hunt for her first major title since 2021 will now stretch into 2027 after a Round of 16 exit at the US Open. The 28-year-old fell to world No. 2 Elena Rybakina, and the manner…
The tennis star has stayed guarded about her personal life, but new social media activity has fans wondering if her longtime relationship has quietly ended.
Coco Gauff has built a reputation for keeping her private life exactly that — private. Yet the 21-year-old American has found herself at the center of renewed speculation about her…
Serena and Venus Williams fell to Maya Joint and Hao-Ching Chan 6-3, 6-7(6), 7-6(10-7) in the first round of the US Open on Friday night, and it will be remembered as one of the tournamenta's defining moments anyway, because for one more night, two of the greatest players the sport has ever produced were back…

