Olivia Miles already looks like an elite WNBA point guard, with the vision, maturity, and command to make everyone around her better. Her decision to play for Mark Campbell at TCU showed big-picture awareness, and now she looks perfectly positioned to thrive as a Rookie of the Year favorite.
Jose Fernandez’s public comment about selfishness after just three games is the first real red flag for the Dallas Wings. This team has too much talent and early-season optimism for the head coach to create public cracks instead of taking responsibility, protecting his players, and correcting issues privately.
A boycott of the SEC by Black athletes could become one of the most powerful cultural pressure points in modern American sports. The South’s college football machine depends heavily on Black talent, and if those athletes collectively used that leverage, the impact would be impossible to ignore. It would take enormous courage, but a few young men standing up could become defining leaders in a new era of civil rights.
The Aces remain No. 1 in our updated WNBA power ratings, with the Liberty still close behind and Dallas continuing to validate our preseason optimism. Golden State has made an early move upward, while Portland remains a massive outlier at the bottom and one of the league’s clearest fade candidates.
The Rangers’ slow start has created buy-low value in a mediocre AL West that should become a two-team race with Seattle. If Corey Seager starts hitting and Jacob deGrom stays healthy, Texas has the roster depth, pitching, and lineup pressure to take control of the division.
Spencer Pratt’s mayoral campaign is fading inside Los Angeles, with his odds down to 14% while Nithya Raman has surged into clear favorite territory. The Joe Rogan/MAGA-media strategy may create national noise, but it is falling flat with L.A. voters who have little appetite for another reality TV personality turning politics into a content machine.
Golden State’s efficiency and organization give the Valkyries the edge against a Seattle team still searching for its identity. The Storm have intriguing young pieces, but the growing pains should be real, making Seattle a fade until the offense shows meaningful improvement.
Portland may be headed for one of the roughest expansion seasons in WNBA history, with serious questions about who can consistently score. The silver lining is draft position, especially if JuJu Watkins enters the 2027 WNBA Draft, but for now the Fire’s early roster-building strategy earns an F.
