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June 19, 2026
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Breakaway is an SB Nation vertical focused on women’s sports: from basketball to boxing, from soccer to softball. We take the success and ever-increasing popularity of women’s sports as a given, not a novelty. And we help define the growing fan culture around women’s sports.

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