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Joyce Bassett

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Sports columnist for Hearst newspapers covering women and girls in athletics. Golf writer with a decent handicap, pickle player and Springsteen fan. Nature photographer πŸ“Έ on Smugmug

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Can we get Trump to show up at the Indiana Fever game? #wnba

26.09.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bri working so hard #wnba

16.09.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Would love to see Hutton or Sentnor skip the pass and take it to goal

13.09.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But is it the fault of the refs that sHitler sucks? Being silly here … still smh at the pool noodles promo for your Caitlin Clark / WNBA story … gaslighting for clicks in my book

13.09.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox β€” more than 18,000 emails.

It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

11.09.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 12304    πŸ” 5617    πŸ’¬ 274    πŸ“Œ 652

My column saluting the playoff-bound Valkyries #wnba Bassett: WNBA’s expansion team, the Golden State Valkyries, poised for playoffs

www.timesunion.com/sports/artic...

06.09.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So cool to see the local paper feature a column about the actual WNBA!

Great work from @joyceb10.bsky.social here!

There's a lot of bemoaning about the lack of real league-wide articles in trad media, so here's your chance to click in and show support for real coverage of the W!

#wnba #wnbanow

05.09.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

05.09.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hats off to Valkyries fans for filling the arena - once again - and not letting Indiana jerseys take over #wnba

01.09.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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This sounds very much not good:

For the first half of the year, NYC added under 1,000 jobs. Same period last year was 66,000.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/n...

14.08.2025 09:55 β€” πŸ‘ 752    πŸ” 267    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 19

Okay, #WNBA fans, there was a lot of talk about Brennan’s book of vitriol, but not much talk about Howard Megdal’s wonderful book Becoming Caitlin Clark. Megdal actually had real interviews with CC, Bluder, Jenson, Hull, Mitchell, Boston, White, Martin, etc.

He took a completely different 1/

10.08.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Saniya Rivers lost her mom to heart failure weeks after the @wnba.com draft. You can see her mom’s name in this photo I took at the Sun-Fever shoot around. I wrote about her playing with a heavy ❀️ in my Times Union (Albany) sports column. She was the No. 22 i admired at TD Garden #connecticutsun

25.07.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

we are currently watching an entire political party run cover for the most notorious sex trafficking ring in modern human history

22.07.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 25245    πŸ” 6747    πŸ’¬ 538    πŸ“Œ 307
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This place is rocking already for Round 2 Sun vs Fever. This is the line at 5:30 with 8 pm game time

15.07.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.

14.07.2025 06:39 β€” πŸ‘ 10670    πŸ” 2875    πŸ’¬ 298    πŸ“Œ 137

Are there no POC missing or dead?

13.07.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Awesome video!

13.07.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I try not to post about Xitter--I'm not on there anymore, I hate even thinking about it--but the latest Grok debacle has me mad all over again at how poor a job sports media has done abandoning that cesspool. Teams, reporters, etc.; what are they even getting out of propping up a literal hate forum?

08.07.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 416    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 12
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Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats Disinformation around a β€œweather weapon” and cloud seeding is being widely promoted by everyone from anti-government extremists to GOP influencersβ€”and leading to real-world consequences.

Extremists, right-wing influencers and GOP lawmakers spent the days after the tragic Texas floods pushing conspiracies about "weather weapons."

On Sunday, a weather radar system was vandalized and one extremist group is taking credit

with @mollytaft.com

www.wired.com/story/texas-...

08.07.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1239    πŸ” 575    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 148
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Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark plans to return for Wednesday’s game against the Golden State Valkyries after being sidelined since late June with a left groin injury.

Clark has missed 10 games this season due to a left quad strain and the groin injury.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/648...

08.07.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

πŸ’―!!!

05.07.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Claire Hutton should take KA’s minutes #uswnt #woso

05.07.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

All the Fever fans sitting this one out because CC not playing are really missing out. But they will be experts when she returns …

04.07.2025 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Cowards @upenn.edu

02.07.2025 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

01.07.2025 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
a man with a scorpion bite. A woman with cholera. A diabetic who needed insulin. And Omran, the dimpled 3-year-old.

a man with a scorpion bite. A woman with cholera. A diabetic who needed insulin. And Omran, the dimpled 3-year-old.

A man with a scorpion bite.
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.

They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

29.06.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1486    πŸ” 651    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 38
Mongolia πŸ‡²πŸ‡³ v USA πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ | Women | Full Quarter-Finals game | FIBA 3x3 World Cup 2025 | 3x3 Basketball
YouTube video by FIBA3x3 - The 3x3 Basketball Channel Mongolia πŸ‡²πŸ‡³ v USA πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ | Women | Full Quarter-Finals game | FIBA 3x3 World Cup 2025 | 3x3 Basketball

Check this out. Mongolia beats USA in FIBA 3v3. youtu.be/jKj0pU8GCms?...

28.06.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bassett: WNBA’s Lynx playing for a Minnesota in mourning Star player Napheesa Collier says the tragedy β€œputs basketball into perspective. It’s not the most important thing.”

WNBA’s Lynx are playing for a Minnesota in mourning. For those who bury their heads in the sand, time to start paying attention. The best player in the league, WNBA All-Star Napheesa Collier, is speaking out. #wnba www.timesunion.com/sports/artic...

27.06.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Women’s Game 6/26/25: Claire Hutton and the USWNT Are Just Getting Started Podcast Episode Β· The Women's Game Β· 06/26/2025 Β· 44m

This is so good! Go Claire! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

26.06.2025 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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