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Christine Brennan

Biography

Christine Brennan

Christine Brennan is an award-winning national sports columnist for USA Today; a commentator for ABC, CNN and PBS "NewsHour"; and the bestselling author of INSIDE EDGE, named one of the top 100 sports books of all time by Sports Illustrated. She has been selected as one of the country’s top 10 sports columnists multiple times by the Associated Press Sports Editors and has covered the last 21 Olympic Games, summer and winter. A trailblazer, she was the first woman sportswriter at The Miami Herald, the first woman to cover Washington’s NFL team for The Washington Post, and the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media.

Christine Brennan

Books by Christine Brennan

by Christine Brennan - Biography, Nonfiction, Sports

America has never seen an athlete quite like Caitlin Clark. Attracting record-shattering attendance and TV ratings, she has riveted the nation with her famous logo threes and thrilling passes and changed how fans across the country view women’s sports. Drawing on dozens of extensive interviews and exclusive, behind-the-scenes reporting, veteran journalist Christine Brennan narrates Clark’s rise and delivers fascinating new details about her Olympic snub by USA Basketball, the safety concerns around her that led to charter flights for all players, the WNBA’s lack of preparation for heightened national scrutiny, and troubling outbreaks of jealousy and resentment as a white player became the top story in a predominantly Black league.