"When you have a star in any sport in any country, the kids want to be like him or her. And the U.S. doesn't have a male tennis star who can compare with Serena and Venus Williams."

"The day I stop fighting for equality and for people that look like you and me will be the day I'm in my grave."

"Look, I know there's no market for women's boxing right now, but there is going to be a female to change that -- that female is me. I can do that."

At the Reggae Girlz's training camp this spring, the mood of elation at being the first women's team from Jamaica and the Caribbean to qualify for the World Cup is tempered by a fair bit of wariness -- particularly when it comes to the federation.

France's players will each earn a €40,000 bonus if they win the Women's World Cup on July 7 on home soil -- just under 10 percent of the €334,000 the men got for their triumph in Russia last summer.

"You sit down and you hear they're women coaches, but then you get into the meeting room with them and they're just coaches. So after you get past the female -- which I've got two daughters -- that's not big to me. Anybody can do whatever they want to do, as long as you bring something to the table, which they are."

Close to 200 current employees at Riot Games - the company behind League of Legends - walked out Monday afternoon and gathered in the company's parking lot to express their concerns and disagreement with the way Riot has handled ongoing allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination.

For years, girls around the country were folded into boys' wrestling programs. But since 2001, the number of girls in high school wrestling has soared from 3,405 to nearly 17,000, buoyed by the introduction of women to Olympic wrestling in 2004 and the rise of MMA, a sport dominated by strong wrestlers. In the past year, six states have sanctioned the sport, making it one of the nation's fastest-growing high school girls' programs. As more girls sign up, the question is: What's next?

Last season, the NFL had 10 female coaches -- three full-time and seven interns. That was twice as many as in 2017 and 1,000 percent growth from four years ago, when Jen Welter was the only woman coaching in the league.

A crowd of 60,739 watched Barcelona beat Atletico Madrid 2-0 at the Wanda Metropolitano - a record for a top-flight domestic women's game in Europe. The previous record was held by Athletic Bilbao when 48,121 attended their cup game against Atletico at the San Mames Stadium in January.

No one has ever stood in front of Cyborg -- and survived -- the way Nunes did. These two spectacular fighters exchanged big punches right from the start, and Nunes didn't shrink in the least. She stood right there in the pocket with the scariest slugger in MMA history, and her own speed and power proved to be simply too much for Cyborg.