{"id":465631,"date":"2026-09-16T13:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465631\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T13:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:56:09","slug":"oaklands-golden-state-storm-kalw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/465631\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland’s Golden State Storm | KALW"},"content":{"rendered":"

Football is the\u00a0most popular sport<\/a>\u00a0in America. This year\u2019s Super Bowl drew in nearly\u00a0125 million<\/a>\u00a0viewers, while the NFL cleared\u00a023 billion<\/a>\u00a0in revenue for its last season.<\/p>\n

But, that love doesn\u2019t necessarily extend to athletes who aren\u2019t\u00a0cisgender men<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2021, the Raiders head coach\u00a0John Gruden<\/a>\u00a0resigned after emails surfaced in which he denounced the NFL\u2019s decision to allow women as referees and made homophobic remarks about a player. His comments might have received backlash, but many in the American football community share these views.<\/p>\n

And old, out-dated attitudes about who can (and should) play football, aren\u2019t stopping athletes from making their mark on the sport.<\/p>\n

At Oakland\u2019s Laney College, there\u2019s a storm brewing\u2026 The Golden State Storm to be exact! It\u2019s the newest women\u2019s tackle football team in the Women’s National Football Conference.<\/p>\n

Kris Grimes is the team’s star running back. They joined the WNFC in 2024, playing initially for the Oregon Ravens and then the Seattle Majestics. And they were Rookie of the Year for the league in 2024.<\/p>\n

Kris moved to the Bay Area- to Richmond this year for a chance to help the Storm build a competitive team.<\/p>\n

Note: A link to the original airing of the story about the Golden State Storm, and a story transcript can be found\u00a0here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Click the button above to listen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Football is the\u00a0most popular sport\u00a0in America. This year\u2019s Super Bowl drew in nearly\u00a0125 million\u00a0viewers, while the NFL cleared\u00a023…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-465631","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\/465631","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=465631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}