The election next year won’t be for control of the court in the battleground state because liberals already hold a 4-3 majority. The race is for a seat held by conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley, who said last month she is running for reelection.
While Reese, Clark, Fever coach Stephanie White and Sky coach Tyler Marsh all called it a basketball play in their postgame news conferences, none of the four addressed hearing what league officials described as potentially “hateful” comments.“I told the team, obviously, we’re going to cooperate fully with the investigation,” White said Monday. “But there’s no place for that in our league, whether it’s at home, whether it’s on the road. It doesn’t matter. We want to encourage our players, our staff to bring recognition to it in real time if it’s heard, if it’s seen or anything of that nature.”
Clark finished the game with her third career triple double — 20 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists — as the Fever matched the second-largest victory margin in franchise history. Reese had 12 points and 17 rebounds in her first regular-season game since suffering a season-ending wrist injury in September.The league also launched its “No Space for Hate” this season, a multidimensional platform designed to combat hate and promote respect across all WNBA spaces both online and in arenas.The league is focused on four areas: enhanced technological features to detect hateful comments online; increased emphasis on team, arena and league security measures; reinforcing mental health resources; and alignment against hate.
This will be the league’s first major test of it.“There’s no place for that in our game, no place for that in our society and certainly we want every person that comes into our arena — whether player, whether fan — to have a great experience,” Clark said. “I appreciate the league doing that (investigation), I appreciate the Fever organization has been at the forefront of this really since Day 1 and what they’re doing. With the investigation, we’ll leave that up to them to find anything and take proper action if so.”
AP Basketball Writer Doug Feinberg in New York also contributed to this report.
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Police said he was remanded in custody after an appearance before the Northampton Magistrates’ Court on Saturday. It wasn’t clear who his attorney is to seek comment.Oliver Oakes had joined Alpine from his junior team, Hitech Grand Prix, where William Oakes also was listed as a director. Hitech did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.
Oliver Oakes, who is not accused of any wrongdoing, had been Alpine’s team principal for less than a yearA day later, the team confirmed it had