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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 5022697, member: 1131"] I thought that the author's name (Louisa Thomas) sounded familiar, so I Googled her and found out that I was right. She is the great grand-daughter of Norman Thomas, the famous socialist and Presidential candidate of the early 20th century, and she wrote a book about conscientious objectors during World War I, which I read some time ago. She also wrote a biography of the wife of John Quincy Adams, which she appropriately entitled "Louisa". So she is a serious writer about subjects other than women's sports, although I was surprised to learn that she has made a partial career recently out of writing about sports. From the article, it's pretty clear that she is quite familiar with the WNBA beyond just its recent history, and she recounts it accurately (whatever factual errors she may have made about the salary cap -- I doubt whether The New Yorker does detailed fact-checking about items like that). I think she is right to say that Caitlin Clark and Diana Taurasi have similar temperaments, and that neither would expect the other to concede anything in the GOAT race. It will be 2044 before we know whether CC has surpassed Diana in that race, and many of us will be unlikely to be following the contest closely at that point. [/QUOTE]