Aari McDonald on being out for the rest of the Unrivaled season: “I’m good, y’all. Been grindin’ everyday to get back before the Unrivaled season ended, which was always the plan. But things didn’t work out the way we hoped for …”

It’s suddenly dusty in here. 🥹

Just gonna set this here.

Dawn Staley built a dynasty at South Carolina. The Gamecocks head coach recently sat down with USA TODAY to talk about how she did it. If you ask her, it started with one word: truth.

The WNBA made concessions in two areas in its latest collective bargaining agreement proposal, a person with knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY. The latest on where things stand:

GOAL. Team USA. Alex Carpenter. Hello.

Anybody else watching Team USA women’s hockey right now?

Just a heads up for UConn fans, Sarah Strong (rest) is OUT today against Butler.

Intriguing matchups in Unrivaled’s 1-on-1 tournament: Skylar Diggins vs. Jordin Canada Chelsea Gray vs. Natasha Cloud Kahleah Copper vs. Rickea Jackson Dearica Hamby vs. Shakira Austin Aliyah Boston vs. Alyssa Thomas

Unrivaled 1-on-1 tournament bracket reveal. Paige Bueckers, Breanna Stewart, Allisha Gray and Kelsey Mitchell are the No. 1 seeds from the respective pods.

Can confirm that the WNBA submitted a new CBA proposal to the Players Association on Friday. AP’s Doug Feinberg had it first. (1/2)

Can confirm that the WNBA has submitted a new proposal today to the WNBPA, as expected following Monday’s meeting (first: Doug Feinberg). The WNBPA initially submitted a proposal around Christmas that the league had yet to formally respond to until today.

My kind of carrying on.

Ugh. Bad news. Brionna Jones suffered a knee injury while playing overseas, per her club USK Praha. Jones will need surgery on the knee. The good news is that they waited 10 days to see if the knee could heal with treatment before deciding on the surgery. #WNBA I @winsidr.com

Several players OUT for tonight’s Unrivaled matchups: HIVE: Ezi Magbegor (R Lower Extremity) BREEZE*: Aari McDonald (R Lower Extremity) Haley Jones has been reassigned to the Development Pool. (1/2)

Please enjoy this hilariously bad video of Aliyah Boston guessing NFL teams.

“I feel like I've gotten every individual award I could at this point, and the only thing that's left is a national championship.” On opening day of the college softball season, our interview with Texas Tech pitcher NiJaree Canady:

Please pray for your media friends and colleagues. We are tired for a multitude of reasons.

Jordan Brand’s “Generational Greatness” anthem just played during the #GRAMMYs . It features WNBA players Napheesa Collier, Rhyne Howard, Gabby Williams and Izzy Harrison. Here’s the ad, if you missed it:

Caitlin Clark on the ongoing WNBA-CBA negotiations during her guest spot on NBC: “Honestly, I don’t think it’s just a big moment for the WNBA. I think all of women’s sports. I think this is one of the biggest moments we’ve ever had. (1/2)

Some changes to tonight’s Unrivaled games: Tiffany Hayes (Non-Injury Related) is now OUT. Aaliyah Edwards (R Upper Extremity) was downgraded to OUT.

Unrivaled Status report for (2/1): LUNAR OWLS: Aaliyah Edwards (R Upper Extremity) - QUESTIONABLE BREEZE*: Cameron Brink (R Lower Extremity) - QUESTIONABLE Aari McDonald (R Lower Extremity) - OUT *Haley Jones assigned to Breeze. ROSE: Azurá Stevens (R Lower Extremity) - OUT

Jordan Brand 🤝 WNBA 🤝 Grammys

Oh, geez. Hate to hear this.

Ezi Magbegor (R Lower Extremity) will not play for today’s Hive-Mist matchup. She is OUT. Jackie Young (Lower Body) is QUESTIONABLE for today’s Laces-Vinyl matchup.

Yup. Time for me to stay off Twitter today. They’re over there arguing about who set what women’s sports record, and I just can’t.

I fully support this movement.

Renee Montgomery asks Marina Mabrey about the Crashout Jar and people holding up money for it, Marina freaks out a bit when she finds out she got a tech during the game but says any money in the crashout jar will be donated to support Minneapolis

NEWS: Unrivaled and Xfinity are launching a second $50K Free Throw Challenge. The challenge actually started tonight (January 30) and runs through the end of the regular season (Feb. 27). Breeze guard Paige Bueckers won the first challenge on January 19.

10 3-pointers is absolutely wild. (10 of 13 from deep.) Marina Mabrey’s otherworldly tonight. An Unrivaled record for most 3-pointers in a game.

Honestly, I should have known what time it was for the Owls. Skylar Diggins has her messy bun. IYKYK.

She scored many of those in about 2 minutes. Not even kidding. Now has 30 points after she just drained another 3-ball.

Marina Mabrey just casually drained SEVEN 3-pointers in the first quarter. She has 27 total points after 1.

“Unrivaled is made by the women who actually do the job.” - Wanda Sykes

Natasha Cloud nearly lost it talking about what it meant to play in front of her family, friends — her city — tonight. She was wiping away many tears. (Also, really awesome to see her and Aliyah Boston compliment each other and who they are as teammates.)

Official from Unrivaled: 21,490 fans in the building tonight. That’s an all-time record for the highest-attended regular season professional women's basketball game ever. Also, a record for a professional basketball game — men’s or women’s — at Xfinity Mobile Arena.

She’s actually doing well. Adding great details.

Philly is Unrivaled, and it’s a sold-out crowd at Xfinity Mobile Arena. 21,000 people are expected to attend according to the broadcast.

Unrivaled selling out its game in Philly is very good early omen for 2030 when the WNBA brings a franchise to the city.

Updates on tonight’s Unrivaled Breeze-Phantom game: Rickea Jackson has been upgraded to ACTIVE. Dana Evans has been downgraded to OUT.

Unrivaled Philly status report (1/30): BREEZE: Aari McDonald (R Lower Extremity) - OUT Rickea Jackson (R Upper Extremity) - PROBABLE PHANTOM: Dana Evans (L Lower Extremity) - QUESTIONABLE LUNAR OWLS: Aaliyah Edwards (R Upper Extremity) - DOUBTFUL

"We are standing firm in our feet and 10 toes down, there is a reason, and we will not move until y'all move … “We will not (expletive) move until y'all move.” More on the WNBA-CBA negotiations:

Wait. What is this Trinity Rodman is Greenland business? What kind of shenanigans did I miss?

🇺🇸 160 Appearances ⚽️ 25 Goals 🏆 @fifawwc.bsky.social & U-20 @fifawwc.bsky.social Champion 🥇 Olympic Gold Medalist ☝️ 1 Legendary Career Crystal Dunn has officially announced her retirement from professional soccer.

I refuse to believe “One Sweet Day” is 30 years old. NOPE.

Was just coming here to post about that. Truly awesome experience. Appreciate the opportunity. Honored.

10PM? I’m already in bed.

NEWS: Caitlin Clark is joining NBC’s Sunday Night Basketball as a guest/contributor ahead of the Lakers-Knicks matchup at Madison Square Garden on Feb 1.

ICYMI: Iowa Hawkeyes senior guard Taylor McCabe is out for the season with a torn ACL. McCabe suffered the injury during the first quarter of Iowa’s matchup against Ohio State on Sunday.

Unrivaled’s status report for 1/25: HIVE: Ezi Magbegor (R Lower Extremity) - PROBABLE Saniya Rivers (Personal) - OUT LACES: Alyssa Thomas (R Lower Extremity) - QUESTIONABLE Maddy Siegrist (R Lower Extremity)- QUESTIONABLE (1/2)