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Hot starts for Fire, Boomers and Lynx in WNBL round one

The WNBL season is underway and the Melbourne Boomers are leading the pack with two wins in the opening round.

AAP

Opals' Olympic path to Paris goes through Brazil

Australia's women's basketball team must avoid a last-placed finish at a round-robin tournament in Brazil to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

AAP

Lauren Jackson defies odds to return once more to Australia’s WNBL

The basketball great has recovered from an achilles injury and will re-join the Southside Flyers the age of 42

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Basketball star Lauren Jackson suits up again in WNBL

Australian basketball great Lauren Jackson has recovered from an achilles injury and will re-join the Southside Flyers in the WNBL this season at the age of 42.

AAP

Breanna Stewart Wins Second WNBA MVP Award in Incredibly Tight Three-Way Race

The five-time WNBA All-Star won her first MVP award during her tenure with the Storm.

Sports Illustrated

Larry Stone: Storm enter season amid mystery and skepticism without Sue Bird, Breanna Stewart

The changes are seismic. Sue and Stewie have gone their separate ways, one to a well-deserved yet still jarring retirement, the other electing to leave her only WNBA home as a free agent to move closer to her childhood home, signing with the New York Liberty.

Tribune News Service

No LJ, no worries for the WNBL's Southside Flyers

The finals-bound Flyers proved there is life after Lauren Jackson with an impressive win over Bendigo to kick off the WNBL's Indigenous split round.

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Larry Stone: Breanna Stewart and other stars are forming super teams, but is that good for the WNBA?

When Breanna Stewart signed with the New York Liberty last week, on the heels of another women’s basketball superstar, Candace Parker, announcing her intention to sign with the Las Vegas Aces, it caused a nationwide chorus of the same two-word phrase.

Tribune News Service

Opals legend Jackson awaits scans after WNBL injury

Australian basketball great Lauren Jackson will undergo scans after suffering a suspected Achilles injury just over a minute into her WNBL tribute match.

AAP

Lauren Jackson limps off after barely a minute as WNBL crowd record broken in Flyers vs Flames clash

The Southside Flyers and Sydney Flames played out their round 13 WNBL clash in front of a record crowd, but the biggest drawcard was forced off the court after barely a minute.

ABC News

Lauren Jackson continues to wow crowds ahead of expected record WNBL attendance for Southside Flyers vs Sydney Flames

Lauren Jackson's record-breaking, peerless basketball journey continues tonight in front of a record crowd at John Cain Arena. She's so committed, she's playing with a broken foot.

ABC News

'Manipulative' one-punch killer left pregnant girlfriend needing possible surgery after brutal attack

Woods knocked his girlfriend to the floor and left her injured in a public park

Manchester Evening News

'Animal' battered pregnant girlfriend 6 years after killing pensioner with punch

Luke Woods punched pregnant girlfriend Lauren Jackson in the face following an argument in December last year, just six years after killing pensioner Len Saunders in a vicious and unprovoked attack in 2017

Daily Mirror

Thug who punched his pregnant girlfriend after being freed for battering a pensioner to death tells a court: "I want to be a positive role model"

Luke Woods, 22, has served time for manslaughter - back behind bars for attacking his partner, he told a judge the prospect of fatherhood has changed him

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Liverpool Echo

Killer battered pregnant girlfriend and abandoned her as she lay injured in park

Luke Woods was previously convicted of the manslaughter of 65-year-old Len Saunders

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Coach Heal remains absent in WNBL

The absence of Shane and Shyla Heal, which has stretched into a second consecutive WNBL game, remains unexplained by the Sydney Flames.

ABC News

Canberra Capitals player Nicole Munger showcases the value of the 'ageing rookie' in WNBL

The 25-year-old player says a positive attitude and a series of 'sliding door' moments helped her make her WNBL debut last year.

AAP

Flames heap more pain on Capitals in WNBL

The Capitals' struggles continued, Lauren Jackson had another big game and Cayla George posted the WNBL's first triple-double in a decade during round seven.

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Successful homecoming for Jackson in WNBL

Basketball legend Lauren Jackson has made a triumphant return to Canberra to help the Southside Flyers defeat her former club UC Capitals in the WNBL.

ABC News

How the WNBL is leveraging the Opals' World Cup success

After a successful Women's Basketball World Cup in Sydney, can the WNBL capitalise on the momentum in the long term?

AAP

Griffin heroics keep Bendigo top of WNBL

Red-hot Bendigo remain unbeaten after a masterclass from Kelsey Griffin, Sydney have broken their duck and Melbourne have jumped to second spot in the WNBL.

Newcastle Herald

McSpadden fit and firing ahead of seventh WNBL season

"I feel the fittest I've ever been, which is always good heading into a season. I don't really have any injuries or niggles going on."

ABC News

Growing women's basketball fan community highlighted at recent World Cup in Sydney

From custom, handmade merchandise, to personally crafted zines, to social pick-up games: The women's basketball fan community is thriving and growing thanks to the recent World Cup in Sydney.

The Guardian - AU

Lauren Jackson’s Opals farewell one last dance for greatest of all time

Denied the fairytale ending in 2016, Jackson has finally bowed out in a manner befitting her status in Australian basketball

ABC News

Lauren Jackson delivers one last time in her Australian Opals farewell at FIBA World Cup

Lauren Jackson gave fans a final reminder of her greatness as she helped the Opals secure the bronze medal at the FIBA Women's World Cup in Sydney, writes Hayley Wilde.

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