Basketball · WNBA
FinalDream 63–68 Valkyries
The Board · Golf
The wedge she had never hit won her first LPGA title.
Yuri Yoshida shot 68 at Pine Beach and beat Haeran Ryu and Hye-Jin Choi by one. She started Sunday four shots behind Ryu.
Pathways
The video of champions, on its own, left them less sure
Researchers showed 508 girls already playing sport, in five Indian states, a video of well-known women athletes. By itself it left them less motivated. The same video, plus a plain account of other jobs in sport, raised the wish to still be playing in five years.
The Board
Four back, she aimed at the other side of the target.
Sheetal Devi trailed 55-59 in the individual final, then shot six 10s and beat Nur Syahidah Alim 142-139. The coach’s fix was the hold, and where to aim.
The Board
Four wins, and she is fourth in scoring.
Jeeno Thitikul’s fourth LPGA win of 2026 came Oct. 4 in Hawaii. Through Oct. 25 she was scoring 69.81, behind Nelly Korda, Haeran Ryu, and Miyu Yamashita.
The Board
Guo Hanyu saved three match points in Wuhan, then talked about her father
The Wimbledon doubles champion, ranked 240th in singles, came back from a set and 0–4 to beat Sorana Cirstea. She said she has not been able to enjoy a match since her father became ill.
Football · J-League
FinalKawasaki 2–4 Yokohama FM
Football · J-League
FinalA Fukuoka 0–3 JEF Utd Chiba
Football · J-League
FinalTokyo Verdy 2–1 V-Varen
The Medalist Index
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Athletes to Watch
- 1An Se-young—
Badminton · Korea — World No. 1 and Paris Olympic champion whose form still sets the women’s singles calendar.
- 2Zheng Qinwen↑
Tennis · China — Olympic gold and a sponsor portfolio that held through an elbow layoff — the comeback ranking climb is the next chapter.
- 3Alexandra Eala↑
Tennis · Philippines — First Filipina into the WTA top 30 in the modern era, with a 2026 Wimbledon third-round run as the latest proof.
Event Guides
Tentpole editorial packages — context, not just coverage.
College Court
The women’s college season: who is playing, and what it costs to get there.
College CourtSoccer
Oruha Hayashi scored once at UCLA last year. On Sunday she scored both goals
The senior from Toyooka had 44 goals in two seasons at Iowa Western, then one in her first year at UCLA. On Tuesday the Big Ten named her offensive player of the week.
College CourtTennis
Two Hawaii freshmen are already on Alex Eala’s Asian Games sheet
Tennielle Madis and Stefi Aludo won an Asian Games doubles opener in Nagoya with Eala in the stands — true freshmen at UH, SEA Games bronze medalists, still carrying the national jersey.
College CourtBasketball
This SoCal gym keeps minting Asian American women point guards
Flintridge Prep handed the same point-guard chair to Kaitlyn Chen and Ashley Chea. One reached the WNBA. The other is still running Princeton. Division I women’s basketball still acts like both are accidents.
Global Game
Soccer, cricket, APAC leagues, and international fandom.
Global GameFootball
A WE League side won the gold. Most of Ecopa stayed empty.
Hanon Nishio equalized in the 86th minute, and Japan beat North Korea 5-3 on penalties for a fourth Asian Games title. Yuzuho Shiokoshi took the last kick, then set 6,243 people against the 37,000 in Hangzhou.
Global GameMulti-sport
Why Asian women medal so often at the Olympics
They have a better medal record than Asian men, and they do it in the same handful of sports.
Global GameFootball
How Nadeshiko Japan built a World Cup system
From Frankfurt 2011 to a third Asian Cup in Sydney — Beleza depth, a professional WE League, and a WSL generation turned a miracle title into a durable machine.
Strategy Room
Rules, tactics, and how the game actually works.
Strategy RoomTennis
The federation says the WTA did not fine Alex Eala
Strategy RoomBaseball
How to watch MLB’s ABS challenge system
Strategy RoomFootball
Rest defence explained
Pathways
Youth costs, recruiting, scholarships, and qualification routes.
PathwaysMulti-sport
The video of champions, on its own, left them less sure
Researchers showed 508 girls already playing sport, in five Indian states, a video of well-known women athletes. By itself it left them less motivated. The same video, plus a plain account of other jobs in sport, raised the wish to still be playing in five years.
PathwaysMulti-sport
The teenagers who quit were exhausted and worried at the same time
At sports schools in Jiangsu, 42 of 119 teens who were exhausted, cold on the sport, and worried had left a year later. Of the 456 who were fine, 39 had left. Being a girl did not put her there.
PathwaysMulti-sport
Girls and boys quit sports at almost the same age
Girls who stop leave at 11.9, and boys at 11.7. By high school, 22 percent of girls who played have quit, against 17 percent of boys. Thirty-nine percent of girls never started.
Hall of Fame
Legends, iconic games, and sports history.
Hall of FameBoxing
Fujioka won five divisions. Koseki defended one belt 17 times.
On Oct. 10 the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame inducted both. Fujioka’s first belt was a fight the 2011 earthquake postponed. Koseki made 17 defenses at 102 pounds, then moved up.
Hall of FameAthletics
Kinue Hitomi’s Amsterdam silver was Asia’s first Olympic medal for a woman
A last-minute 800 metres in 1928, a media myth that erased the race until 1960, and a career that ended on the anniversary of the final.
Hall of FameCricket
Chopra’s ICC plaque remembers the India that built women’s cricket
Edinburgh’s Class of 2026 put Anjum Chopra beside Sourav Ganguly — one plaque for the captain who made Indian women’s cricket durable, another for the captain who remade the men’s side after the match-fixing crash.
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