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Everything you need to know about the 2025 PWHL playoffs

After a wildly successful sophomore season, the puck drops on the PWHL postseason tonight, with four of the league’s six teams competing to hoist the Walter Cup. Here’s everything you need to know before the icy and spicy fun begins.

May 07, 2025

Fenty Beauty enters NY Liberty sponsorship as celeb entrepreneurs turn to women’s sports

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On Wednesday, the NY Liberty announced a partnership with Rihanna’s billion-dollar Fenty Beauty empire. The collab is the latest example of a popular, celeb-driven brand carefully curating its sports sponsorships, namely by working with teams and athletes that have prestige and influence.

May 09, 2025

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Game 1s in the books as the puck drops on the PWHL’s second-ever postseason

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Forget the yellow brick road, it’s time to skip skate down the Walter Cup freeway as the PWHL’s second-ever postseason hits the ice. Both Game 1s are already in the books, but these feisty best-of-five semis are just beginning.

May 09, 2025

More questions than answers as the NBA’s second-round continues

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Think your bestie’s bachelorette was chaotic? Try the NBA Playoffs. For the first time in league history, two 60-win teams are down 0-2 in the second round — an unprecedented double whammy that has us questioning everything.

May 09, 2025

Edmonton Oilers steal home-ice advantage from Vegas Golden Knights

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Hold onto your acorns because, though they moved at a glacial pace, the Utah Hockey Club will now be known as the Utah Mammoth, a thrilling development amid a flurry of Round 2 Stanley Cup Playoff updates. Let’s skate to it.

May 09, 2025

Recent Team USA rugby match illustrates sport’s potential leading up to World Cup, Olympics

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Last Friday, 10.5K fans showed up at Kansas City’s CPKC Stadium to watch the USA Rugby women’s 15s take on Team Canada. While the bout resulted in a loss for the Americans, the game set a new U.S. attendance record for the sport fueled by its recent surge in popularity.

May 07, 2025

Carolina Hurricanes top Washington Capitals 2–1 in overtime to clinch Game 1 of second-round series

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And just like that, the spicy NHL Playoffs second round is officially underway. Here’s what you need to know about the four remaining series as the quest to hoist Lord Stanley continues.

May 07, 2025

Sports News

Inside the Line with A.J. Andrews and Katelyn Ohashi

May 06, 2025

We’re flipping out over the first guest in our Inside the Lines series: former UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi, who took the internet by storm with her viral 2019 floor routine, a massive comeback after significant time away from the sport due to injury.

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The GIST of It Podcast

Ep #458

Victim blaming & the Hockey Canada assault trial

May 08, 2025

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Victim blaming & the Hockey Canada assault trial

This one’s a toughie.

As we’ve covered extensively at The GIST, hockey culture is in desperate need of a reckoning — and the ongoing Hockey Canada trial is the perfect example of why. Today’s episode of The GIST of It takes listeners through the latest updates from the courtroom, as co-hosts Ellen Hyslop and Steph Rotz discuss toxicity in the sport and provide key insight as to why this trial may be different from the rest. Take care.