Rachel Bachman
@Bachscore
Senior sports reporter, @WSJ. @SJI_Update alum.
Alan Page is 1 of 1. Every year, the Pro Football Hall of Famer and former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice plays his middle-school sousaphone to cheer on runners in the Twin Cities Marathon and honor his wife, who died of cancer in 2018.
Portland's largest office building, valued at $373M a decade ago, just sold for about $45 million to a University of Oregon graduate who runs a regional auto group. He paid cash. oregonlive.com/business/2025/…
I can’t think of anyone in sports who unites people like the halftime performer Red Panda. She fell during her act at the Lynx-Fever game last night. Hoping for a fast recovery. nytimes.com/athletic/64675…
This is a good summation for a lot of things.
"One thing I know about people who are wealthy is that they’re going to do what they want." College sports leaders are battling over the fate of booster collectives. At stake is more than $1 billion in athlete pay. wsj.com/sports/college…
"One thing I know about people who are wealthy is that they’re going to do what they want." College sports leaders are battling over the fate of booster collectives. At stake is more than $1 billion in athlete pay. wsj.com/sports/college…
"Pay us what you owe us." WNBA players making a statement at All-Star Game with t-shirts they had under their warm-ups. This event is surely a celebration of the league and its success, but the CBA has been the focus of this weekend.
The SEC Confronts a New College Football Opponent: Panic. “You don’t play in the championship for two years and it feels like the end of the world." -- @finebaum by @WillDehmel: wsj.com/sports/footbal…
NEW: The NCAA wants to expand the men’s basketball tournament. Whether it can do that could come down to one thing: booze. wsj.com/sports/basketb…
"Croissants are pressed in a waffle iron and served with whipped cream, a drizzle of fruit purée and a cloud of cotton candy." The Minnesota State Fair's 33 new foods are out: startribune.com/new-foods-minn…
If there wasn’t film, you would NOT believe what just happened. Izzy Harrison, Kennedy Burke, Marine Johannès, AND Sabrina hit the halfcourt shots. #WNBATwitter 🗽🏀
NYC fireworks loading…. (Those are FDNY boats spraying in celebration)
Five years ago, the pandemic was threatening the WNBA's entire existence. Today, the W announced it's adding teams in Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia by 2030. Each will pay a $250M expansion fee--5X what the fee was in 2023. wsj.com/sports/basketb…
NEW: Top football squads like Ohio State will be paid up to $35 million next season. But the amounts that star athletes are pulling in could soon crash back to earth. Here’s why: wsj.com/sports/footbal…
Top vote-getters for the WNBA All-Star game are Caitlin Clark and Napheesa Collier. They’ll be team captains for the July 19 game in Indianapolis. Vote totals are Clark, 1,293,526, Collier 1,176,020.
