Joyce Bassett
@joyceb10.bsky.social
Sports columnist for Hearst newspapers covering women and girls in athletics. Golf writer with a decent handicap, pickle player and Springsteen fan. Nature photographer 📸 on Smugmug
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Great look at what makes Caitlin Clark, well, Caitlin Clark from @howardmegdal.bsky.social
Check it out:
www.amazon.com/Becoming-Cai...
Check it out:
www.amazon.com/Becoming-Cai...
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Great look at what makes Caitlin Clark, well, Caitlin Clark from @howardmegdal.bsky.social
Check it out:
www.amazon.com/Becoming-Cai...
Check it out:
www.amazon.com/Becoming-Cai...
Roseate Spoonbill shows it’s pretty as pink during takeoff after dining on crawfish at Huntington Beach SC State Park 💗
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Roseate Spoonbill shows it’s pretty as pink during takeoff after dining on crawfish at Huntington Beach SC State Park 💗
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Impressive response from ACFC Captain, Sarah Gorden. Trans people belong everywhere and it's great to see players use their power to say that and represent their team and their community
for those not on x, here is Sarah Gordon and Angelina Anderson’s statement, they do speak for the team, and the team says trans folks belong
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Impressive response from ACFC Captain, Sarah Gorden. Trans people belong everywhere and it's great to see players use their power to say that and represent their team and their community
Realizing I’ll be waking up to A’ja while drinking videos
a female basketball player with the number 22 on her jersey is celebrating
ALT: a female basketball player with the number 22 on her jersey is celebrating
media.tenor.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Realizing I’ll be waking up to A’ja while drinking videos
But is it the fault of the refs that sHitler sucks? Being silly here … still smh at the pool noodles promo for your Caitlin Clark / WNBA story … gaslighting for clicks in my book
Not really. I merely tell you tell you to eff off when you say I defend Hitler, simply because I want my profession to stop quoting viral crap. But I'm still here engaging with you to see if you have a legit point.
September 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
But is it the fault of the refs that sHitler sucks? Being silly here … still smh at the pool noodles promo for your Caitlin Clark / WNBA story … gaslighting for clicks in my book
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NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets
A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.
www.bloomberg.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
My column saluting the playoff-bound Valkyries #wnba Bassett: WNBA’s expansion team, the Golden State Valkyries, poised for playoffs
www.timesunion.com/sports/artic...
www.timesunion.com/sports/artic...
September 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
My column saluting the playoff-bound Valkyries #wnba Bassett: WNBA’s expansion team, the Golden State Valkyries, poised for playoffs
www.timesunion.com/sports/artic...
www.timesunion.com/sports/artic...
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So cool to see the local paper feature a column about the actual WNBA!
Great work from @joyceb10.bsky.social here!
There's a lot of bemoaning about the lack of real league-wide articles in trad media, so here's your chance to click in and show support for real coverage of the W!
#wnba #wnbanow
Great work from @joyceb10.bsky.social here!
There's a lot of bemoaning about the lack of real league-wide articles in trad media, so here's your chance to click in and show support for real coverage of the W!
#wnba #wnbanow
As the WNBA playoffs near, here’s an update on the good, the bad and the ugly in professional women’s basketball.
Bassett: WNBA’s expansion team, the Golden State Valkyries, poised for playoffs
As the WNBA playoffs near, here’s an update on the good, the bad and the ugly in professional women’s basketball.
bit.ly
September 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
So cool to see the local paper feature a column about the actual WNBA!
Great work from @joyceb10.bsky.social here!
There's a lot of bemoaning about the lack of real league-wide articles in trad media, so here's your chance to click in and show support for real coverage of the W!
#wnba #wnbanow
Great work from @joyceb10.bsky.social here!
There's a lot of bemoaning about the lack of real league-wide articles in trad media, so here's your chance to click in and show support for real coverage of the W!
#wnba #wnbanow
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This sounds very much not good:
For the first half of the year, NYC added under 1,000 jobs. Same period last year was 66,000.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/n...
For the first half of the year, NYC added under 1,000 jobs. Same period last year was 66,000.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/n...
August 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This sounds very much not good:
For the first half of the year, NYC added under 1,000 jobs. Same period last year was 66,000.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/n...
For the first half of the year, NYC added under 1,000 jobs. Same period last year was 66,000.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/n...
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Okay, #WNBA fans, there was a lot of talk about Brennan’s book of vitriol, but not much talk about Howard Megdal’s wonderful book Becoming Caitlin Clark. Megdal actually had real interviews with CC, Bluder, Jenson, Hull, Mitchell, Boston, White, Martin, etc.
He took a completely different 1/
He took a completely different 1/
August 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Okay, #WNBA fans, there was a lot of talk about Brennan’s book of vitriol, but not much talk about Howard Megdal’s wonderful book Becoming Caitlin Clark. Megdal actually had real interviews with CC, Bluder, Jenson, Hull, Mitchell, Boston, White, Martin, etc.
He took a completely different 1/
He took a completely different 1/
Saniya Rivers lost her mom to heart failure weeks after the @wnba.com draft. You can see her mom’s name in this photo I took at the Sun-Fever shoot around. I wrote about her playing with a heavy ❤️ in my Times Union (Albany) sports column. She was the No. 22 i admired at TD Garden #connecticutsun
July 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Saniya Rivers lost her mom to heart failure weeks after the @wnba.com draft. You can see her mom’s name in this photo I took at the Sun-Fever shoot around. I wrote about her playing with a heavy ❤️ in my Times Union (Albany) sports column. She was the No. 22 i admired at TD Garden #connecticutsun
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we are currently watching an entire political party run cover for the most notorious sex trafficking ring in modern human history
July 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
we are currently watching an entire political party run cover for the most notorious sex trafficking ring in modern human history
This place is rocking already for Round 2 Sun vs Fever. This is the line at 5:30 with 8 pm game time
July 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This place is rocking already for Round 2 Sun vs Fever. This is the line at 5:30 with 8 pm game time
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People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.
July 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.
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I try not to post about Xitter--I'm not on there anymore, I hate even thinking about it--but the latest Grok debacle has me mad all over again at how poor a job sports media has done abandoning that cesspool. Teams, reporters, etc.; what are they even getting out of propping up a literal hate forum?
July 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I try not to post about Xitter--I'm not on there anymore, I hate even thinking about it--but the latest Grok debacle has me mad all over again at how poor a job sports media has done abandoning that cesspool. Teams, reporters, etc.; what are they even getting out of propping up a literal hate forum?
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Extremists, right-wing influencers and GOP lawmakers spent the days after the tragic Texas floods pushing conspiracies about "weather weapons."
On Sunday, a weather radar system was vandalized and one extremist group is taking credit
with @mollytaft.com
www.wired.com/story/texas-...
On Sunday, a weather radar system was vandalized and one extremist group is taking credit
with @mollytaft.com
www.wired.com/story/texas-...
Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats
Disinformation around a “weather weapon” and cloud seeding is being widely promoted by everyone from anti-government extremists to GOP influencers—and leading to real-world consequences.
www.wired.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Extremists, right-wing influencers and GOP lawmakers spent the days after the tragic Texas floods pushing conspiracies about "weather weapons."
On Sunday, a weather radar system was vandalized and one extremist group is taking credit
with @mollytaft.com
www.wired.com/story/texas-...
On Sunday, a weather radar system was vandalized and one extremist group is taking credit
with @mollytaft.com
www.wired.com/story/texas-...
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Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark plans to return for Wednesday’s game against the Golden State Valkyries after being sidelined since late June with a left groin injury.
Clark has missed 10 games this season due to a left quad strain and the groin injury.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/648...
Clark has missed 10 games this season due to a left quad strain and the groin injury.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/648...
July 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark plans to return for Wednesday’s game against the Golden State Valkyries after being sidelined since late June with a left groin injury.
Clark has missed 10 games this season due to a left quad strain and the groin injury.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/648...
Clark has missed 10 games this season due to a left quad strain and the groin injury.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/648...
All the Fever fans sitting this one out because CC not playing are really missing out. But they will be experts when she returns …
July 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
All the Fever fans sitting this one out because CC not playing are really missing out. But they will be experts when she returns …
Cowards @upenn.edu
BREAKING
The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations.
This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations.
This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
July 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Cowards @upenn.edu
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A man with a scorpion bite.
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.
They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.
They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
June 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A man with a scorpion bite.
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.
They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
A woman with cholera.
A diabetic who needed insulin.
A 3-year-old boy.
They all died when the U.S. stopped sending medicine to Sudan.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...