Boston Women's Sports

  • WNBA in Boston: Sun, Boston win

    Boston basketball fans, and New England sports fans more generally, might wonder:Could we have a home team? Could this be our life? A hometown women’s basketball team? The Connecticut Suns are decidedly queer, unabashedly Black, and Native-owned. 

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  • Boston Sweeps Montreal in PWHL Playoffs: Draws Minnesota and home ice in PWHL Finals

    Written by Laura Everett What are we playing for? This question is before the PWHL all season. Sometimes, the response feels forced, as players are fed pre-packaged answers about playing for the next generation.  PWHL branding says, “ice-time, earned.” Men just get ice time. But the reality of sports has been that women have to…

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  • Op-Ed: For Herself Alone: Women’s Hockey and the Unjust Burden of Little Girls

    op-ed by Laura Everett “Future PWHL player” the sign in the stand reads, and a ruddy-faced girl child in an oversized hockey jersey peeks above the sign. Catnip to nearly every cameraman and beat writer assigned to the inaugural matches of the Premier Women’s Hockey League.  She was in every sell-out arena. Every home game.…

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  • Boston’s Newest Pro Hockey Team Falls to MN in First Game of New League

    Thursday January 4, 2024 Written by Laura Everett and Edited by Abbi Holt LOWELL, MA: Boston’s inaugural game as a part of the new Professional Women’s Hockey League kicked off in Lowell on Wednesday January 3, 2024 with a massive crowd, over four thousand fans, filling Tsongas Arena, but not quite the win the team…

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  • NWSL Championship Watch Party 11/11 8pm

    Regardless of which two teams are in the final face-off, Boston Women’s Sports is pleased to host a National Women’s Soccer League watch party on Saturday November 11, 2023 with the game starting at 8pm EST at Fort Hill Bar and Grill in Roxbury.  We are proud to partner with a woman-owned, and Latina-owned restaurant…

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  • NWSL Update: Boston Unity Soccer Partners Propose $30m White Stadium Overhaul

    Community Meets on Thursday to Discuss Written by Laura Everett Edited by Abbi Holt Thursday July 13, 2023 Boston’s bid for a professional women’s soccer team moved a few steps closer to the goal this week with the announcement that the Boston Unity Soccer Partners were the sole bidders in the City of Boston’s Request…

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  • A Win & Much Further To Go: Boston Pride outlast Montreal Force at Black History Month Game

    It was a good win against a good team. What deserves equal, if not more sustained attention, is the commemoration of Black History Month and the further work for full inclusion in hockey that must be done. 

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  • Late Win: Boston Over Montreal 4-1 on #HockeyFightsCancer Night

    Fans can’t watch what they can’t find, nor can new fans grow to love this game. Which is a shame, because this is a great game in a deep league. While Boston is at top of the Premier Hockey Federation standings and Montreal is in fifth, the game was very well matched.

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  • Making an Antiracist NWSL Bid for Boston

    We know Boston & the NWSL has a reputation for anti-Black racism. Let’s address it in a proactive proposal to bring a new women’s professional soccer team to Boston.

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