Jan 2, 2018
Happy New Year!
Top Sports Stories of 2017 (Not in order)
- Nigerian women become first african bobsled team (Driver Seun Adigun and Brakemen Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga) to qualify for the 2018 Olympics.
- Tennis Player Sloane Stephens wins her first 2017 U.S. Open.
- Tennis Player Serena Williams wins the Australian Open while pregnant.
- Minnesota Lynx wins its fourth WNBA Championship
- Mississippi State upsets UConn in overtime to advance to the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship Game
- Maame Biney becomes first black woman to qualify for Olympic Speedskating team
- Skateboarder Samarria Brevard becomes First Black Woman to Medal in the X Games. Etnies announces a Samarria Brevard signature shoe, first for an African-American woman.
- Shalane Flanagan wins the New York City Marathon, the first American woman to win the race in 40 years
- United States Women’s National Hockey team wins the Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship
- NFL players take a knee during the national anthem to bring attention to police brutalities against blacks.
- New England Patriots beat Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI, 34-28
- Los Angeles Lakers retires Kobe Bryant’s jerseys
- Cleveland Cavaliers Point Guard Kyrie Irving gets traded to the Boston Celtics
- Los Angeles Lakers Lonzo Ball comes out with his own shoe under the Big Baller Brand.
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