U.S. Olympic rugby (and TikTok) star Ilona Maher and former NCAA swimmer Ann Ragan Kearns launched a skincare line today, called Medalist. The brand’s products are specifically designed for women athletes, which involved rigorous testing from Maher and other athletes across different age groups and sports.

It's one of the major forces shaping college sports.

The gender gap in sports viewership and valuations may be closing, but there’s one area of the women’s sports ecosystem where supply is far behind demand: merchandise. On Wednesday, payment network Klarna and fan intelligence company Sports Innovation Lab (SIL) estimated the value of the women’s sports merch market at $4B.

Today marks the 52nd anniversary of Title IX — the landmark U.S. legislation that gave women athletes the right to equal opportunity in sports. So, today’s Scroll is all about the history of the law, the progress that’s been made, and the work that lies ahead in order to level the playing field.

The 2024 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials begin in Eugene, Oregon, tonight, with hundreds of Olympic hopefuls racing, shot putting, hurdling, and more in hopes of representing the red, white, and blue in Paris.

Today’s Juneteenth — a U.S. holiday celebrating Black history and commemorating the emancipation of enslaved people in the States. But the landmark day only became a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, following a summer of protests against racial injustice in 2020.

All they do is win, win, win, no matter what.

This feature is brought to you by the Toronto Raptors and MLSE Foundation’s A League of HER Own, a girls-only basketball league created in partnership with the Toronto Community Housing Corporation to address the gender participation gap in sports.

Answering GISTers' burning questions about the NCAA

Today’s scroll is all about the intersection of fatherhood and sports, with a focus on the #GirlDads who make us proud, the men changing the world for their children, and the best practices for papas raising sporty spices of their own, courtesy of The GIST team.

Tech entrepreneur and investor Alexis Ohanian — who co-founded Reddit and is married to Serena Williams — shared further details with Front Office Sports on the 776 Invitational, a pro women’s track and field event offering record prize money.

On Monday, the Pac-12 conference (as we know it) has officially shuttered. Let’s bid the Pac farewell by diving deep into its implosion, storied past, and tenuous future.