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AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Since her arrest at a protest on the University of Massachusetts, Annie McGrew has needed to shuttle between two hearings: one for the minor misdemeanor charges against her that she faces in court and one other for violating the university's code of conduct.

This prevented the doctoral student from working on completing her dissertation in economics.

“It's been a really rough few months for me since my arrest,” McGrew said. “I never imagined the UMass administration would react like this.”

In the spring, around 3,200 people were arrested during a wave of pro-Palestinian encampments against the Gaza war. While some colleges ended the demonstrations by making agreements with students or just holding them out, others called the police when protesters refused to depart.

Charges have been dropped against many students, but cases remain pending for a whole lot of individuals on the campuses where many of the arrests occurred, in accordance with an evaluation of information collected by The Associated Press and partner newsrooms.

In addition to the legal gray area, these students also face uncertainty about their academic careers. Some remain steadfast, saying they’d have chosen to protest even in the event that they had known the implications. Others are scuffling with the aftermath of the arrests and are doubtful about whether or not they should remain enrolled at university in any respect.

In St. Louis, Valencia Alvarez is waiting to listen to the final result of possible charges against her and 99 others in reference to an April 27 protest at Washington University that lasted lower than half a day.

Twenty-three of those arrested were students. In June, the university offered them two options: they may face a hearing before the Office of Student Conduct or “accept responsibility” and forgo further investigation. Alvarez selected the primary option.

“I don't really intend to remain silent on this, and I think that's the goal of the second option,” Alvarez said.

The demonstrations took place at private and non-private universities, on campuses large and small, in the town and the countryside. When students return in the autumn, colleges are preparing for more protests against the Israeli military and Hamas and considering strategies corresponding to when to call within the police – decisions which have had lasting effects.

Some college administrators said calling the police was the one option to end the protests, which disrupted graduation ceremonies, disrupted campus life and included anti-Semitic signs and language.

Student groups and a few faculty members have sharply criticized the university administration for allowing police into its premises, saying peaceful demonstrations were often crushed with unnecessary violence.

The overwhelming majority of cases against protesters – from students and college to individuals with no connection to the colleges – involve misdemeanors or lesser charges, corresponding to trespassing, failure to disperse, disturbing the peace and resisting arrest.

More serious charges were brought against protesters who occupied a Columbia University campus constructing. Some of them were initially arrested for trespassing, but those charges were reduced to minor misdemeanors and charges against dozens of scholars were dropped. In a call criticized by Jewish groups, prosecutors said there was no evidence of property damage and not one of the students had criminal records.

Prosecutors in several cities are still considering whether to file charges, but in lots of cases officials have indicated they don’t intend to pursue minor violations, in accordance with an AP evaluation of information on campuses with at the very least 100 arrests.

In upstate New York, the Ulster County district attorney asked judges to dismiss 129 cases related to arrests on the State University of New York at New Paltz.

“I have concluded that it is best to dismiss these charges now and relieve all parties involved and the courts of further burden, expense and use of scarce public and judicial resources,” District Attorney Emmanuel Nneji wrote in June.

New Paltz students said they sat with their arms crossed as officers led them away on May 2.

“It was very brutal,” said Maddison Tirado, a student whose trespassing charges were dropped. Tirado said the protesters were treated as if authorities viewed them “like little terrorists running around.”

One student protester, Ezra Baptist, said he was hospitalized with a concussion and a cut after he was thrown forward and hit his head during his arrest by police. Because of his injury, he was told to avoid screens and was unable to finish a course he needed to graduate in May.

State police said if anyone believes officers acted inappropriately, they need to file a report so the case could be investigated. Another local law enforcement agency, the county sheriff's office, said officers showed restraint and one officer was injured when protesters threw bottles.

Tension has been high on university campuses since October 7, when Hamas militants attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and taking about 250 hostages. According to local health authorities, greater than 39,000 Palestinians were killed within the Israeli offensive.

For some students, the impact on their academic careers was more serious than any legal risks.

Washington University recently began conduct hearings for arrested students, but no disciplinary decisions have been made. Alvarez also doesn’t have the master's degree in public health that she would have received by now had she not been arrested.

Alvarez, who plans to work in social justice and community work in the longer term, said she has no regrets. But that doesn't mean the protest didn't come at a price.

“I want that degree,” Alvarez said. “I worked four jobs during my two years at Washington University so I could afford tuition without having to take out loans.”

At Emerson College in Boston, 118 people were arrested when police were called to implement a city ordinance against camping on public property. All were charged with disturbing the peace and received a “pre-arraignment plea,” meaning no charges might be filed in exchange for 40 hours of community service, prosecutors said.

Owen Buxton, a student at Emerson University, said he suffered a concussion when police pushed him right into a bronze statue. It was his second arrest this semester for protesting the war in Gaza. The experience made it difficult for him to pay attention or attend class.

“It stifled all my creativity. I didn't do anything that wasn't typical of me for months,” said Buxton, a filmmaker.

After an outcry over the arrests, Emerson allowed students to finish the semester pass or fail.

A Boston police spokesman said anyone with concerns can file a criticism with the interior affairs office. Police had previously said there have been no injuries in Emerson's arrests.

At the UMass campus in Amherst, students recalled a peaceful demonstration of singing and dancing before police arrived. It was the second tent camp arrange by students this week. UMass Chancellor Javier Reyes said he ordered the eviction after talks with protesters failed.

“Let me be clear – involving law enforcement is an absolute last resort,” Reyes wrote to the campus community.

The police response, including 117 police vehicles on campus, unsettled the protesters. McGrew recalls police in riot gear charging toward the group of scholars. A complete of 134 people were arrested.

While the arrestees were being processed within the university's sports arena, they felt humiliated by campus police, said transgender student Charles Sullivan. One officer, Sullivan said, forced them to loudly describe their genitals with the intention to gain access to a restroom.

Sullivan has since decided to depart the university to proceed his studies, partly due to the arrest. Having just accomplished his master's degree in anthropology, Sullivan will move to Ohio in the autumn to pursue his doctorate quite than proceed his studies at UMass.

“I think more than anything I'm just ready to get out of here,” Sullivan said.

Numerous campus organizations have reprimanded Reyes for the usage of police, including the UMass Faculty Senate, which issued a vote of no confidence within the chancellor.

In June, Reyes announced the creation of a task force to review campus policies on protests, including the land use policy that a lot of those arrested are believed to have violated.

The group is just starting its work, said Anthony Paik, a member of the college senate and co-chair of the duty force. More information might be available by the tip of August, just before the beginning of the brand new school 12 months, he said.

Today is Tuesday, July 23, the 205th day of the yr 2024. There are 161 days left within the yr.

Today’s highlight of the story:

On July 23, 1967, Detroit experienced the primary of 5 days of deadly riots. A police raid on an unlicensed bar within the early hours of the morning led to confrontations with residents. The violence escalated and spread to other parts of town. 43 people lost their lives.

Also on this date:

In 1903, the Ford Motor Company sold its first automotive, a Model A, for $850.

In 1982, actor Vic Morrow and two child actresses, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were killed when a helicopter crashed on them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for “The Twilight Zone: The Movie.” (Director John Landis and 4 colleagues were later acquitted of manslaughter charges.)

In 1983, an Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel while flying from Montreal to Edmonton. The pilots managed to guide the plane to a secure emergency landing in Gimli, Manitoba. (The near-disaster occurred since the fuel was incorrectly measured in kilos somewhat than kilograms at a time when Canada was switching to the metric system.)

In 1990, President George HW Bush announced that he had chosen Judge David Souter of New Hampshire to succeed retiring Justice William J. Brennan to the U.S. Supreme Court.

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Kerri Strug managed a heroic final jump despite a torn ligament in her left ankle and the US gymnasts won their first Olympic team gold medal.

In 1997, the seek for Andrew Cunanan, the suspected murderer of designer Gianni Versace and others, ended when police found his body on a houseboat in Miami Beach; it was an apparent suicide.

In 1999, the space shuttle Columbia launched with the world's strongest X-ray telescope and Eileen Collins became the primary woman to command a U.S. space flight.

In 2003, the Massachusetts Attorney General released a report stating that clergy and other members of the Archdiocese of Boston were believed to have sexually abused greater than 1,000 people over a period of sixty years.

In 2006, Tiger Woods became the primary player since Tom Watson within the 1982/83 season to win the British Open in consecutive years.

In 2011, 27-year-old singer Amy Winehouse was found dead in her London home; she had unintentionally suffered from alcohol poisoning.

In 2012, Pennsylvania State University's football program was nearly ruined by penalties for its handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal: The NCAA imposed an unprecedented $60 million high quality, a four-year ban from participating within the playoffs, and a discount within the variety of football scholarships it could award.

In 2019, Boris Johnson won the election to change into leader of Britain's ruling Conservative Party, giving him the chance to change into the country's prime minister the subsequent day.

In 2021, Cleveland's Major League Baseball team, often called the Indians since 1915, announced it might adopt a brand new name, the Guardians, at the tip of the 2021 season; the change got here amid pressure on institutions and teams to desert logos and names that were viewed as racist.

Today's birthdays:

• Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is 88.
• Actor Ronny Cox is 86.
• Rock singer David Essex is 77.
• Actor Woody Harrelson is 63.
• Rock musician Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) is 63.
• The actor and director Eriq Lasalle is 62.
• The rock musician Slash is 59.
• Gary Payton, a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, is 56.
• Model and actress Stephanie Seymour is 56.
• Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., is 55.
• Actress Charisma Carpenter is 54.
• Country singer Alison Krauss is 53.
• R&B singer Dalvin DeGrate (Jodeci) is 53.
• Actor and comedian Marlon Wayans is 52.
• Actress Kathryn Hahn is 51.
• Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky is 51.
• Actress Stephanie March is 50.
• R&B singer Michelle Williams is 45.
• Actor Paul Wesley is 42.
• Actor Daniel Radcliffe is 35.

Originally published: July 23, 2024 at 01:00

Today is Wednesday, July 10, the 192nd day of the yr 2024. There are 174 days left within the yr.

Today’s highlight of the story:

On July 10, 1940, the Battle of Britain began in World War II when the German Luftwaffe launched attacks on southern England. (The Royal Air Force was ultimately victorious.)

Also on this date:

In 1509, the theologian John Calvin, a key figure within the Protestant Reformation, was born in Noyon in Picardy, France.

In 1890, Wyoming was admitted because the forty fourth U.S. state.

In 1925, jury selection took place in Dayton, Tennessee, within the trial of John T. Scopes, who was accused of breaking the law by teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. (Scopes was convicted and fined, but the decision was overturned on a technicality.)

In 1929, the dimensions of American paper money was reduced when the federal government began issuing banknotes that were about 25 percent smaller.

In 1951, armistice negotiations to finish the Korean War began in Kaesong.

In 1962, NASA launched the primary lively communications satellite, Telstar 1.

In 1985, the Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk with explosives by French secret service agents in Auckland, New Zealand; one activist was killed.

In 1991, Boris N. Yeltsin took the oath of office as the primary elected President of the Russian Republic.

In 1991, President George HW Bush lifted economic sanctions against South Africa.

In 2002, the House of Representatives passed a measure by a vote of 310 to 113 allowing pilots to hold weapons within the cockpit to defend their aircraft against terrorists (President George W. Bush later signed the bill).

In 2015, South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from its place of honor within the Statehouse after greater than 50 years.

Today's birthdays:

• Singer Mavis Staples is 85.
• Actor Robert Pine is 83.
• Virginia Wade, member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, is 79.
• Folk singer Arlo Guthrie is 77.
• Baseball Hall of Famer Andre Dawson is 70.
• Rock singer Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys) is 70.
• Banjo player Bela Fleck is 66.
• Actress Fiona Shaw is 66.
• Singer/actor Jacky Cheung is 63.
• Actor Alec Mapa is 59.
• Country singer Gary LeVox (leh-VOH') (Rascal Flatts) is 54.
• Actress Sofia Vergara is 52.
• Actor Adrian Grenier (grehn-YAY') is 48.
• Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor (CHOO'-ih-tehl EHJ'-ee-oh-for) is 47.
• Actor Thomas Ian Nicholas is 44.
• Singer and actress Jessica Simpson is 44.
• Actress Emily Skeggs is 34.
• Pop singer Perrie Edwards (Little Mix) is 31.
• Actress Isabela Merced is 23.

On 24 AugustIn 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius erupted, throwing over 3 cubic miles of debris as much as 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) into the air. As ash and rock fell to earth, they buried the traditional cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

According to most recent accounts, the story essentially ends here: each cities worn out, their populations frozen in time.

It only starts with the rediscovery of cities and the excavations that began in earnest within the 1740s.

But current research has modified the narrative. The story of the eruption of Vesuvius isn’t any longer a story of destruction; it also includes the stories of those that survived the eruption and rebuilt their lives.

The seek for survivors and their stories has dominated the last decade of my archaeological fieldwork as I actually have tried to find who might need escaped the eruption. Some of my findings are featured in an episode of the brand new PBS documentary, “Pompeii: The new excavation.”

Get out alive

Pompeii and Herculaneum were two wealthy cities on the coast of Italy south of Naples. Pompeii was a community of about 30,000 people which housed a thriving industry and energetic political and financial networks. Herculaneum, with a population of about 5,000had an energetic fishing fleet and a variety of marble workshops. Both economies supported the villas of rich Romans in the encompassing countryside.

In popular culture, the outbreak is generally portrayed as an apocalyptic event with no survivors: In episodes of the tv series “Doctor Who” And “Loki“, everyone in Pompeii and Herculaneum dies.

However, there have been at all times indications that folks might need escaped.

The outbreak itself lasted over 18 hoursThe human stays present in each town represent only a fraction of their population, and lots of objects that one might need expected to have survived and been preserved in ashes are missing: carts and horses have disappeared from the stables, ships are missing from the docks, and money and jewellery boxes have been emptied.

All this implies that many – if not most – people within the cities could have escaped in the event that they had fled early enough.

Some archaeologists have at all times assumed that some people fled, but finding them was never a priority.

So I developed a way to see if survivors may very well be found. I took Roman names that only appear in Pompeii or Herculaneum – resembling Numerius Popidius and Aulus Umbricius – and searched for individuals with those names living in the encompassing communities within the period after the eruption. I also looked for added evidence, resembling improved infrastructure in neighboring communities to accommodate migrants.

After eight years of combing through databases containing tens of 1000’s of Roman inscriptions on partitions and tombstones, I discovered evidence of over 200 survivors in 12 towns. These communities are mainly situated in the realm around Pompeii, but they were mostly north of Vesuvius, outside the zone of best destruction.

It seems that the majority survivors stayed as near Pompeii as possible, preferring to settle along with other survivors and counting on the social and economic networks of their home towns to assist them relocate.

Some migrants are successful

Some of the refugee families appear to have succeeded of their latest communities.

The Caltilius family relocated to Ostia – then a crucial port city north of Pompeii, 29 kilometers from Rome. There they founded a temple for the Egyptian deity Serapis. Serapiscarrying a basket of grain on his head to symbolize the abundance of the earth, was popular in port cities resembling Ostia, which were dominated by the grain trade. These cities also built a magnificent, expensive tomb complex decorated with inscriptions and huge portraits of relations.

Members of the Caltilius family married into one other refugee family, the Munatiuses. Together they founded a wealthy, successful clan.

Puteoli, the second largest port city of Roman Italy – today Pozzuoli – also welcomed survivors from Pompeii. The family of Aulus Umbricius, a Garum Tradera preferred fermented fish sauce, settled there. After reviving the family garum business, Aulus and his wife named their first child, born of their adopted home, Puteolanus, or “the Puteolanian.”

Others get into trouble

Not all survivors of the outbreak were wealthy or successful of their latest communities. Some had been poor before. Others appeared to have lost their family fortunes, perhaps consequently of the outbreak itself.

Fabia Secundina from Pompeii – apparently named after her grandfather, a wealthy wine merchant – also ended up in Puteoli. There she married a gladiator, Aquarius retiarius, who died on the age of 25, leaving her in great financial difficulties.

Three other very poor families from Pompeii – the Avianii, Atilii and Masuri families – survived and settled in a small, poorer community called Nuceria, which is now called Nocera and is situated about 10 miles (16.1 kilometers) east of Pompeii.

According to a surviving tombstone, the Masuri family took in a boy named Avianius Felicio as a foster son. Notably, there was no record of foster children throughout the 160 years of Roman Pompeii, and prolonged families often took in orphans. For this reason, it is probably going that Felicio had no surviving relations.

This small example illustrates the larger pattern of generosity shown by migrants, even impoverished ones, toward other survivors and their latest communities. They not only cared for one another; additionally they donated to the religious and civic institutions of their latest homeland.

For example, the Vibidia family had lived in Herculaneum. Before town was destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius, that they had donated generously to finance various facilities, including a brand new Temple of Venus, the Roman goddess of affection, beauty and fertility.

A female member of the family who survived the eruption seems to have continued the family tradition: after settling in her latest community of Beneventum, she donated a really small, poorly made altar to Venus on public land made available to her by the local city council.

How would survivors be treated today?

As survivors settled into their latest communities and built lives, the federal government also played a job.

The Emperors in Rome invested heavily within the regionReconstruction of buildings damaged by the eruption and construction of latest infrastructure for the displaced population, including roads, water systems, amphitheaters and temples.

This model of post-disaster reconstruction could be a lesson for today. The cost of financing reconstruction seems never to have been discussed. Survivors weren’t isolated in campsnor were they forced to live indefinitely in tent citiesThere isn’t any evidence that they experienced discrimination of their latest communities.

Instead, all signs suggest that communities welcomed the survivors, a lot of whom went on to start out their very own businesses and tackle positions in local government. And the federal government responded by ensuring that the brand new populations and their communities had the resources and infrastructure to rebuild their lives.

Although Iowa's Caitlin Clark's college profession led to disappointing defeat, the purpose guard's record-breaking season helped generate significant interest on this yr's NCAA women's college basketball tournament.

The Women's Final Four achieved higher rankings on television as the boys's Final Four. Then the ladies's basketball championship game between South Carolina and Iowa wasn't identical to that attract more viewers (18.9 million) than the boys's championship game the next night (14.8 million); It also had more viewers than any World Series game since Game 7 of the 2019 World Series and any NBA Finals game since Game 5 of the 2017 NBA Finals.

Is this one other transient moment of happiness for girls's sports? Or will this shining moment extend far into the long run?

Since the passage of Title IX in 1972, women's sports occasionally experienced big rankings and enormous crowds. In 1983, Almost 12 million viewers tuned in just like the University of Southern California, led by Star Forward Cheryl Millerdefeated LSU within the basketball championship game. And greater than 90,000 fans competed within the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Pasadena, California.

The media briefly focused on these events before returning to day-to-day business and paying close attention to men's sports.

But this moment feels different. Lots of fans, journalists and scientists wonder if that is the beginning of a brand new era for girls's sport, with more coverage, more viewers, increased interest and greater investment in the long run.

The long eclipse of girls's sports

I even have studied for over 30 years the intersections of gender, sport, media and culture.

Since 1989, my colleagues and I even have tracked the amount and quality of coverage of men's and ladies's sports on television news and highlight shows. We collect a brand new batch of knowledge every five years. We are currently within the technique of collecting data for the eighth time, the outcomes of which can be published in 2025. (In 2019, we expanded our evaluation to incorporate online and social media content.)

In our samples, we consistently found that ladies's sports generally accounted for between 3% and 5% of coverage on television news and sports highlight shows, measured in minutes and variety of stories. There have been some spikes over time, driven by high-profile international sporting events equivalent to the 1999 Women's World Cup and the Olympics. The newsletters and social media accounts of the identical networks in our sample also reflect the shortage of television coverage, with roughly 4% to five% of content focused on women's sports.

Our findings usually are not unique. Hundreds of studies Research into routine sports coverage has also found that media coverage of girls's sports rarely accounts for greater than 10% of total sports coverage. This is a recurring pattern across all media platforms – print, TV, radio, social – within the English-speaking world.

Skip the gatekeepers

But while research on traditional media – television, newspapers, magazines – was relevant on the time of those studies, it doesn’t fully capture the explosion of other types of sports consumption over the past decade.

Fans can watch highlights on X, formerly often known as Twitter, and short-form video apps. Podcasts like “Listen to their sports“”The core of it“”Tea with A & Phee” And “Attacking third party“Speaks on to women’s sports fans. Streaming platforms like Fubo TV and Women's Sports Zone on Roku offer a spread of live women's basketball and soccer games, helping to construct and maintain a fan base. And area of interest media that give attention to women's sports, for instance Women's sports onlyoffer quite a lot of content and perspectives.

Female athletes and ladies's teams and leagues now not need to depend on newspapers, magazines and tv networks to achieve their fans. You can easily engage with them directly on social media and produce and distribute content that bypasses traditional media gatekeepers.

Using feminism

A couple of many years ago, the common wisdom was that “sex sells sports.” Media executives focused on the sex appeal of female athletes to draw male fans and viewers. It was assumed that ladies simply weren't fascinated by sports.

But my colleague Dunja Antunovic and I observed a very important shift in sports media starting within the mid-2010s: the mobilization of feminism and equality principles to advertise and sell women's sports.

A chapter in our latest book states: “In the Service of Equality: Feminism, Media and Women's Sports“We give attention to how women's sports leagues and teams, and their corporate sponsors, have used the pictures, language and slogans of feminist and social justice movements to sell merchandise and tickets.

The WNBA has long been committed to racial and social justiceBe it by promoting the #BlackLivesMatter movement or mobilizing voters or advocating for reproductive justice.

During the 2018 season, the WNBA “Take a seat, take a standThe campaign highlighted that ticket proceeds would go to organizations supporting women. The campaign video mixed scenes from WNBA games with scenes from the 2017 Women's March on Washington.

Budweiser's “We Won't Stop Watching” and “It's Worth Watching” campaigns throughout the 2019 Women's World Cup and National Women's Soccer League season directly addressed the shortage of media attention for girls's sports.

In December 2023, University of South Carolina coach Dawn Staley made T-shirts with the slogan “Everyone watches women's sports“ – a reversal of the dismissive excuse used to justify the shortage of coverage of girls’s sports. The shirts were produced by media and retail company Togethxr, whose founders include current and former athletes Alex Morgan, Chloe Kim, Sue Bird and Simone Manuel.

Be the change they need to see

While corporations and leagues deserve credit for highlighting the worth of girls's sports, it is usually essential to acknowledge how female athletes themselves have driven change.

Caitlin Clark's quest for the NCAA scoring record became must-see television for thousands and thousands of fans. Stunning play from LSU's Angel Reese, UConn's Paige Bueckers, Southern California's Juju Watkins and South Carolina's Kamilla Cardosa – all now household names – also contributed to the tournament's record rankings.

Activism by female athletes has also helped make women's sports more visible over time.

In March 2019, the U.S. national team sued the U.S. Soccer Federation for gender discrimination. In 2022 The two sides reached an agreement on a multi-million dollar severance package and the promise to equalize pay between the boys's and ladies's national teams.

In 2021, Oregon's Sedona Prince posted a viral video the differences in weight rooms within the 2021 NCAA Tournament for men and women. The clip caught national media attention and prompted the NCAA to conduct a gender equity review.

However, gender differences still exist.

Just two years ago, ESPN began broadcasting your complete NCAA women's basketball tournament. Last yr was the primary yr for the reason that Nineteen Eighties that the ladies's tournament was broadcast on network television. The NCAA negotiated a television rights deal that permits the boys's tournament to have its own contract. while the ladies's tournament is combined with other NCAA championship games.

The gender equity review conducted within the wake of Prince's viral post estimated the worth of the ladies's tournament at between $81 million and $112 million. The NCAA had previously set the number at $6 to $7 million. The latest contract estimates the worth at $65 million – an improvement but still well below the independent audit's estimates.

I don't know if this yr's tournament games are a harbinger of a brand new era or in the event that they are simply one other example of this the unevenness of social change in women's sports.

But I find hope in the feminine athletes standing up for equality, in the variety of media platforms correcting long-standing patterns of unequal media coverage, and within the voices of journalists and fans committed to telling stories about women's sports.