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Christine Brennan

Biography

Christine Brennan

Christine Brennan is an award-winning national sports columnist for USA Today; a commentator for ABC, CNN and PBS "NewsHour"; and the bestselling author of INSIDE EDGE, named one of the top 100 sports books of all time by Sports Illustrated. She has been selected as one of the country’s top 10 sports columnists multiple times by the Associated Press Sports Editors and has covered the last 21 Olympic Games, summer and winter. A trailblazer, she was the first woman sportswriter at The Miami Herald, the first woman to cover Washington’s NFL team for The Washington Post, and the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media.

Christine Brennan

Books by Christine Brennan

On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women’s Sports
by Christine Brennan - Biography, Nonfiction, Sports

With her famous logo threes, viral highlights and massive fan following, Caitlin Clark has redefined women’s basketball and inspired a generation of fans. Tracing her journey from the University of Iowa to the Indiana Fever, ON HER GAME explores Clark’s formative years, her record-setting college career --- where she scored more points than any woman or man in major college basketball history --- and her controversial Olympic snub by USA Basketball. Along the way, Christine Brennan covers key moments shaping the landscape: charter flights for WNBA players amid security concerns, national media pressure, and the tensions Clark’s success stirred in a league still reckoning with issues of race, equity and visibility.