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Sports TV consultant Neal Pilson dissects the evolution of women's sports on TV, the current state of network interest, where programming is headed and more.

Sheryl Swoopes has struggled with love, family, money and lack of recognition, but she has never lost her spirit. In this portrait, you will meet someone who is not your everyday superstar, but a woman who has defied a multitude of labels.

In her new column for espnW.com, Val Ackerman will talk with prominent male executives to get their ideas about where women's sports are headed.

Some holiday cheer to our sports stars -- from Brittney Griner to Serena Williams to McKayla Maroney to Tamika Catchings -- who gave us plenty of moments to remember in 2012.

As the Hope Solo and Chamique Holdsclaw controversies show, female athletes can be just as flawed as men -- and the price they pay can be steeper.

Recurring questions regarding women's sports are where do we go from here and what it will take to get there? Satisfying everyone involved will take time and a good game plan.

In this week's "That's What She Said," Sarah Spain reflects on her time at the espnW Women + Sports Summit and highlights its inspiring moments and troubling, unanswered questions.

WNBA commissioner Laurel Richie hopes the U.S. women's basketball team winning gold means more eyes will be on her league in the second half of the season and into the playoffs.

Diana Taurasi is still looking for respect as defending World Cup champ Japan fights for equal treatment. The espnW contributors debate how far women's sports have come and how far they have to go.

The Los Angeles Sparks Candace Parker tells Morty Ain about her experience posing nude in ESPN The Magazine's 2012 Body Issue.

Rob Gronkowski, Maurice Jones-Drew, Tyson Chandler and Abby Wambach are among the athletes who will strip down for ESPN The Magazine's fourth annual Body Issue.

ESPN is marking the 40th anniversary of Title IX by unveiling the top 40 female athletes of the past 40 years. As a senior at Morningside (Inglewood, Calif.), Lisa Leslie once scored 101 points. In the first half. The other team never even bothe...

ABC and ESPN will be celebrating Title IX's anniversary with a lineup on women's sports programming on June 23.

ESPN is marking the 40th anniversary of Title IX by unveiling the top 40 female athletes of the past 40 years. With a game unlike anything women's basketball had seen, Chamique Holdsclaw was tabbed the "female Michael Jordan." She had size, but...

ESPN is marking the 40th anniversary of Title IX by unveiling the top 40 female athletes of the past 40 years. In college, she helped deliver three national titles to UConn and won back-to-back Naismith Awards; in the WNBA, she has collected two c...

Samantha Prahalis, a 5-foot-7, up-tempo point guard who was selected No. 6 overall by the Phoenix Mercury in Monday's WNBA draft, isn't sure why she was so heavily scrutinized in her four years at Ohio State.