{"id":236576,"date":"2025-10-24T09:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/236576\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:28:09","slug":"wnba-expansion-team-toronto-tempo-hires-ex-liberty-coach-sandy-brondello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/236576\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Expansion Team Toronto Tempo Hires Ex-Liberty Coach Sandy Brondello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes tapped the most powerful women in sports this week, ranking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQHlBVDDUYx\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Top 25<\/a> players, executives, and others pushing the needle in the ever-growing sports \u2014 and women&#8217;s sports \u2014 sector.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark is the highest-ranked athlete at No. 4, joined by Unrivaled co-founders Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart at No. 9, as well as tennis stars Serena Williams (No. 11) and Coco Gauff (No. 13), reigning <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/las-vegas-aces-star-aja-wilson-wins-historic-4th-wnba-mvp-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WNBA MVP<\/a> A&#8217;ja Wilson at No. 15, gymnastics titan Simone Biles at No. 18, and world No. 2 golfer Nelly Korda at No. 21.<\/p>\n<p>Also making the 2025 Forbes Most Powerful Women in Sports roster are tennis legend Billie Jean King (No. 23), NCAA basketball coaching icon Dawn Staley (No. 20), and Las Vegas Aces sideline leader Becky Hammon (No. 22).<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s sports multi-team owner Michele Kang came in at No. 5, with NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman (No. 7), New York Liberty owner Clara Wu Tsai (No. 10), US Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone (No. 14), and more representing the off-field <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/maggiemcgrath\/2025\/10\/22\/americas-most-powerful-women-in-sports-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">lineup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication, the new annual list honors leaders &#8220;who are transforming one of the world&#8217;s most influential industries, shaping strategy, driving innovation, and expanding the role of women across the sports economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Investments, influence, and growth drivers were all taken into consideration, with Forbes also dividing selectees into five categories: owners\/investors, business executives, front office leaders, athletes, and amplifiers.<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forbes tapped the most powerful women in sports this week, ranking the Top 25 players, executives, and others&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[111857,68676,104805,49,48,4233,104807,111858,85108,3457,104252,23760,82,45963,630,19368,111859,105474],"class_list":["post-236576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-2024-wnba-championship","tag-2025-wnba-playoffs","tag-2026-wnba-season","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cba","tag-cba-negotiations","tag-eli-horowitz","tag-monica-wright-rogers","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-portland-fire","tag-sandy-brondello","tag-sports","tag-toronto-tempo","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-expansion","tag-wnba-expansion-draft","tag-wnba-free-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}