Kate Martin

Last 4 number one picks. 🤩

Indiana’s “Crossroads of America” mottto mogged by Ashland, Virginia’s “Center of the Universe”

year 5 loading for Lexie Hull 🔥 📝: buff.ly/dL2J1c3

BREAKING: All-WNBA 1st Team and 3x WNBA All-Star Kelsey Mitchell is finalizing a $1.4M supermax one-year agreement to return to the Indiana Fever. After a career year helping the Indiana Fever reach the WNBA semi-finals, Mitchell becomes one of the first-ever players in WNBA history to agree to terms at the new supermax.

The women don’t get a One Shining Moment, so we took matters into our own hands. Sights and sounds from the Women’s NCAA Tournament:

Just the funniest thing to be talking/arguing about at an NBA game

when goodreads emails you to let you that you just finished a book like thanks beast i was the one who told you that though

WNBA and NBA Board of Governors Approve WNBA Expansion Teams in Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia

🚨BREAKING: I just signed legislation to raise Virginia's minimum wage to $15 per hour. We are putting more money in the pockets of the Virginians who power our economy — and charting a brighter, more affordable future for families who call the Commonwealth home.

Walking outside

Carmax park rocks and we are ready to go nutz

How can you not be romantic about the moon

Do you think they’re taking turns on the aux

An Angel’s DREAM💭 🅰️TL WHAT UP?! @AtlantaDream

For those interested:

Kiki Rice’s Aunt (Susan Rice) was Obama’s Ambassador to the United Nations and National Security advisor if you’re looking for the women’s basketball 🤝 US politics local angle

The @uclatheden student body saying it with their chest at the national championship 💙💛 Everyone Watches Women’s Sports ™️

Lauren Betts on the day she sought out help for her depression: “I don’t think I even realized I was sinking. The whole time I thought I was treading water, I was actually slipping away. Picture yourself underwater, facing up toward the sky and just…. fading. Fading, until you can no longer see the surface. Fading, until you finally reach the darkest part of the ocean. That was me. It happened so randomly. About two years ago, after months of feeling kind of numb, I woke up one morning feeling everything. Every anxious thought I’d ever had about myself hit me all at once. My anxiety was at an all-time high. My mind said, I don’t want to do this anymore. ‘This,’ meaning life. I had probably been depressed for six months. It all started at the end of my freshman year at Stanford. Then when I transferred to UCLA, there was hype around my name, and I just never dealt with my emotions. Gradually, it became really bad, until I started drowning. That morning, I knew the headspace that I was in was too dangerous to ignore. I’d never felt so scared in my entire life. I don’t want to do this anymore…. That horrible thought kept popping up in my mind. I couldn’t go back to my day-to-day and just pretend like nothing happened. I felt like there was no other option but to go to a hospital. I was just like, There’s no other way out. Either I’m going there, or I’m doomed. I was desperate. I called my trainer at the time, and they came and picked me up. That afternoon, I checked myself into the UCLA hospital. I remember there weren’t even enough rooms because there were so many people in the psych ward who also desperately needed help. So, I was put in the hallway, with people screaming and shouting all night. I didn’t get any sleep. I just laid on that gurney wondering how my teammates were doing. The whole experience was really hard. I was a hot mess. Doctors checked in on me throughout the day. People came to visit, and I begged them to take me home. I was not happy. The food is terrible. You don’t have your phone, you don’t have anything — you’re just laying there, alone with your thoughts. If you’re in a bad headspace and you really need professional help, please go and take care of yourself because it is the BEST option over doing something else. But I never want to go back. More than anything, though, I just never want to feel that low again. I want to be HERE, experiencing life, in all its beauty and all its messiness, for a really really long time. But I know now how thin that line is between having your whole future ahead of you, and not. All it takes is one really bad morning.” playerstribu.ne/Betts @laurenbetts12 | @UCLAWBB | @MarchMadnessWBB | @bigten

Jonathan the Tortoise

April Fool me once, shame on you. April Fool me—you can't get fooled again