{"id":295310,"date":"2026-05-01T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/295310\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:36:07","slug":"a-wnba-trailblazer-womens-college-hockey-and-an-oakland-store-where-one-thing-is-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/295310\/","title":{"rendered":"A WNBA Trailblazer, Women\u2019s College Hockey and an Oakland Store Where One Thing Is Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-california-report-magazine\/id1314750545?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you find yourself wandering around Oakland\u2019s Dimond District, you might come across a rather unusual store. The space looks like a hoarder\u2019s attic. It\u2019s crowded with mismatched objects: glassware, old electronics, knitted hats, typewriters and rotary phones. But you don\u2019t need money to shop here, you can actually take one item home for free. Free Oakland UP is both an art installation and mutual aid model, offering commentary on waste and reuse. KQED\u2019s Srishti Prabha brings us the story of this space, and what it means to community members.<\/p>\n<p>On May 8th, the WNBA will celebrate the start of its 30th season. Along with a surge in viewership and attention in recent years, players are also celebrating a new collective bargaining agreement. Athletes will receive 20% of gross league and team revenue, resulting in a big bump in salaries. This progress comes after decades of advocacy by early players who worked to carve out space for the women\u2019s professional game. Judy Mosley McAfee was one of them. She was the sixth woman drafted into the WNBA. Last July, her daughter, reporter Audy McAfee looked back at her mom\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the U.S. women\u2019s hockey team took home Olympic gold. The win has inspired a new wave of players, including adults. Recently USA Hockey announced that the number of women and girls who\u2019ve signed up to play the sport has surpassed 100,000 for the first time. In California, women\u2019s college hockey is growing too. Much of that momentum comes from grassroots efforts by women who don\u2019t want to hang up their skates. Reporter Susan Valot hit the ice to bring us this story from Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast. If you find&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-295310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}