When the University of South Carolina Gamecocks defeated the University of Connecticut Huskies 62-48 on April 3 in the Women's Final Four, it should have been a clean, celebrated moment. Head coach Dawn Staley had guided her team to another defining win, one step closer to what would have been a fourth NCAA championship under…
Thirty years ago this month, a 67-foot-by-100-foot mural of Dawn Staley went up on the side of a building in Philadelphia, around the corner from where she grew up, across the street from her elementary school and directly facing the recreation center where she first developed her game. She was 26 years old, fresh off…

