Kate Dolan

It ain't over till it's over. ~ Yogi Berra

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

The future is here. We just have to unlock it. https://t.co/bDxnheT85h

[Only In Boston @OnlyInBOS]

6 Super Bowls.

4 World Series.

2 NBA Championships.

1 Stanley Cup.

13 Titles Since 2001.

Boston Is The City of Champions!

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

[Only In Boston @OnlyInBOS]

The Boston Celtics are NBA Champions!

The NBA team with the most championship trophies!

[Boston Celtics @celtics]

2024 WORLD CHAMPIONS 🏆

[Dan Roche @RochieWBZ]

There is so much to love about this goal….

The beautiful timing…the pass…from Lindholm!

The hands of Pastrnak…the ability to take the puck so close to Samsonov and get the puck into the net!

Beautiful! #NHLBruins
https://t.co/2DwKpwXec5

[MLB Network @MLBNetwork]

An ode to Wake ❤️

🎙️ Terry Francona | @RedSox

[Sports Illustrated @SInow]

Dawn Staley personally thanks Caitlin Clark for lifting up women's basketball.

All class.

[espnW @espnW]

Dawn Staley and the Gamecocks with the ultimate comeback 🔥

[Heavens! @HeavensFX]

"Caitlin Clark FROM THE FUTURE!"

[NBC Sports @NBCSports]

The moment Caitlin Clark captured ultimate NCAA Division I basketball glory! 🙌

(via @JoshLloydMedia)

[Iowa Women's Basketball @IowaWBB]

THE shot.

@caitlinclark22 x #Hawkeyes

[New England Patriots @Patriots]

333 wins, 31 postseason victories and 6 Super Bowl championships.

@pfwpaul on Bill Belichick’s legacy in New England: https://t.co/UjxbVrv4tr

[NESN @NESN]

We look back on the life and legacy of Tim Wakefield ❤️

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

Let me tell you a story about being a sporty woman in Australia today.

And why it’s relevant to the #Matildas win.

This story started when I was 2 years old and my grandpa registered my younger brother for membership of a football club after his birth … but didn’t do this for me or my older sister when we were born.

It continued when I was 7 and my other grandparents won a big trailer raffle and saved the new basketball in it to give to my younger brother *in front of my older sister and I* as he was their oldest grandSON.

It continued when I was 12 and the school banned all girls from playing footy on the oval at lunchtime because sometimes when we kicked the ball our knickers showed (and we weren’t allowed to wear shorts).

It continued when I was in Year 12 and won the Open Cross Country Run event at school, yet that night my father asked my younger brother how he performed in the run (he came 7th or something) and my father didn’t ask me how I went till my mother made him. (My father was a kind, decent man who never deliberately hurt me but was also very much a product of his time.)

It continued when my son played Under 10’s Aussie Rules and I ran water for the team the entire year but when it came time for end-of-year photos, the team coach wouldn’t allow the women team helpers in the photo (but my boy’s father who was the team runner and all other men helpers were in the pic).

This is an incomplete list. And yes, it’s very minor in the general scheme of oppression and discrimination faced by so many people in so many ways.

But almost every woman on earth has stories a bit like (or very like) mine, and they hurt. Because while most men certainly face unfairness in their lives, they don’t face systemic oppression just for being male.

Yet for women such stories are part of the fabric of our lives. We never know when the harm will come or how much it will hurt, but we’ve been psychologically braced for it at all times since we were little girls.

There are stories in the media already about the kinds of harm some Matildas players have faced since they were little girls, too.

One of them talked about how she was forced to play for boy’s teams when younger and sometimes had no team at all: because she was a girl. One talked about her club having no women’s toilets or other facilities, which made their games very difficult. Others have spoken about the years and years where they played to crowds of just a few hundred, and have had to continually fight tooth and nail for fair conditions and pay (which was only kind-of achieved just a couple of years ago).

This means their current achievements are even more extraordinary, because they were gained despite a cacophony of oppression and male derision running like a poisoned stream alongside everything they did on a sporting field (and off of it).

It means the sheer guts they displayed last night is even more remarkable because they all had to overcome the myriad ways others tried to undermine their confidence at every stage of their sporting lives, as well as focus on the game.

And still, they had the courage and mental toughness to stand up and win.

For this reason, they’re true heroes in ways that male sporting stars rarely are. And this is why we women are so proud of last night’s victory, and so utterly absorbed by it.

We recognise the unbelievably difficult slog it is just to survive in a world dominated by men’s power. We’ve all (in sport, and elsewhere) suffered the hurts of being regularly ignored, laughed at and demeaned.

So the victory feels like a victory for all women, and an even bigger victory for the little girls who’ll suffer a little less in future because those incredible women have eased the path for those coming after them.

There are literally no words for how wonderful they are, for what we owe them, and for how much we wish them well for whatever comes next.

Forever and ever, let’s play like GIRLS.

#PlayLikeAGirl
#TilitsDone

[Lauren @BOSBruinsHC]

long live || thank you patrice bergeron

[Boston Bruins @NHLBruins]

Patrice, there are not enough words to describe the impact you have left on our organization, your teammates, the people you’ve worked with, the fans you gave everything for, and the city and region you represented so well.

You did it all with the utmost respect, class, and character. Quite simply, you always made us proud.

For everything, we say THANK YOU.

[Boston Bruins @NHLBruins]

A statement from Patrice Bergeron.

📰: https://t.co/UWDGPWtDX9

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Tennis icons Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova met as teenagers, forged one of the greatest rivalries in sports and then became close friends.

After 50 years, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova understand each other like no one else can. When cancer came, they both knew where to turn. https://t.co/78ixTyl15M

[NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics]

Simone Biles and Megan Rapinoe will receive the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 🎖️

At the age of 25, Biles will become the youngest athlete ever to receive the honor. @OnHerTurf

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Forced birth in a country with:

—No universal healthcare
—No universal childcare
—No paid family & medical leave
—One of the highest rates of maternal mortality among rich nations

This isn't about "life." It's about control.