Australia’s narrow win over Italy in their quarterfinal qualification game at the FIBA Women’s World Cup on Wednesday came at a cost. Their toughest assignment of the tournament so far got tougher after captain Ezi Magbegor went down with an apparent injury in the first quarter, forcing HC Sandy Brondello to pivot to other options.
Just nine days. That is all the time the Australian national team head coach Sandy Brondello has to find a replacement for a key piece of her national team’s FIBA World Cup roster.
The Toronto Tempo were hit with a double whammy on Sunday when head coach Sandy Brondello revealed that both Brittney Sykes and Aneesah Morrow would miss the remainder of the season due to injury.
How many of the 24 WNBA players to score 20 points and dish out 10 assists in the same game multiple time can you name in five minutes?
Las Vegas Aces forward Steph Talbot will represent Australia at the 2026 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup in Berlin. The tournament runs Sept. 4-13 and will mark Talbot’s third World Cup appearance.
The “protected species” comment by Toronto Tempo’s head coach Sandy Brondello for Atlanta Dream’s Angel Reese was last week’s biggest storyline in the WNBA.
Toronto Tempo coach Sandy Brondello recently served her one-game suspension for her inappropriate remark about Atlanta Dream forward Angel Reese. Brondello swiftly apologized for it and took full accountability.
Toronto Tempo head coach Sandy Brondello served a one-game suspension on Monday after the WNBA disciplined her for what the league described as an "inappropriate comment" during Friday's game against Atlanta Dream's Angel Reese.
Toronto Tempo assistant coach Olaf Lange said he would not weigh in on the WNBA’s decision to suspend head coach Sandy Brondello, instead expressing support for his wife before serving as interim coach during Monday’s game against the Las Vegas Aces.
Angel Reese did not have the best of revenge games against her old team, the Chicago Sky, on Sunday evening. The Atlanta Dream topped the Chicago Sky, 93-91, on Sunday.
Atlanta Dream star Angel Reese is publicly thanking the WNBA for punishing Toronto Tempo head coach Sandy Brondello. Brondello, who is from Australia, used a phrase that she "shouldn't have used" when discussing Reese, a third-year WNBA forward.
The Toronto Tempo will be without their head coach as they try to snap out of a funk Monday at home against the Las Vegas Aces. Sandy Brondello will serve a one-game suspension without pay for what the league deemed was an inappropriate comment she made about Atlanta star Angel Reese during Friday's game.
Angel Reese is no stranger to making headlines, but over the past few days she has been at the center of a disheartening situation. During the Atlanta Dream's 111-92 win over the Toronto Tempo on Friday, Reese got tangled up with Toronto’s Nyara Sabally.
Toronto Tempo forward Temi Fagbenle used Caitlin Clark as a point of comparison when defending her head coach, Sandy Brondello, referring to Angel Reese as a "protected species" during the Tempo's July 17 game against the Atlanta Dream.
The WNBA on Saturday suspended Toronto Tempo coach Sandy Brondello one game without pay for comments she made about Atlanta Dream star Angel Reese that the league deemed inappropriate.
Slow to address past controversies, the WNBA offered a prompt response to Toronto Tempo coach Sandy Brondello's problematic comment directed at Atlanta Dream forward Angel Reese during Friday's 111-92 Dream win.
The New York Liberty had been a champion franchise. Under the coaching of Sandy Brondello, New York won the championship back in 2024. Last year, too, the team looked in great touch as they exited after a playoff run.
Sandy Brondello’s team is second in the Eastern Conference standings, and it’s not the New York Liberty. While many expected the Liberty to be a dominating force for the season with a star-studded lineup, Sandy Brondello delivered results with her expansion team: the Toronto Tempo.
Let's take a closer look at the WNBA's two expansion franchises — the Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire — as well as look at what's in store for the Golden State Valkyries in Year 2.
As the Toronto Tempo prepares for its WNBA debut on May 8, against the Washington Mystics, head coach Sandy Brondello emphasized the use of male practice players to help simulate high-intensity game situations.
The Phoenix Mercury had a solid 2020 season, as they finished the season with a record of 13-9. It was a shortened season, as the WNBA played in an isolation zone.
There was a collective feeling of confusion from among the women's basketball community when news broke that the New York Liberty had fired Sandy Brondello a short time after the team's 2025 season ended in disappointment.
Sandy Brondello officially has been named the inaugural head coach of the Toronto Tempo, the expansion team announced Tuesday. Brondello guided the Phoenix Mercury to the 2014 WNBA championship and did the same with the New York Liberty in 2024.
On September 23, news broke that the New York Liberty would not be renewing the contract of head coach Sandy Brondello, thus ending her time as the team's head coach after four seasons.
Not retaining New York Liberty head coach Sandy Brondello was necessary for the team to keep growing, general manager Jonathan Kolb said Thursday. "These decisions mark fork-in-the-road moments for organizations," Kolb told reporters in his first public comments since Brondello's firing on Tuesday.
Less than one year after leading the New York Liberty to the WNBA championship, Sandy Brondello is now out of a job.
WNBA is a cutthroat league for coaches. One season without a ring and you might just be out of a job, very much like Sandy Brondello, who was let go by
For New York Liberty head coach, it's nothing personal ... just business. The tenured WNBA boss is set to embark on her latest playoff run, set to guide the Liberty in the knockout stage of the franchise's first postseason championship defense.
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