Bay Area Sports Valkyries Eliminated In Last-Minute, Nail-Biting One-Point Playoff Loss The Golden State Valkyries squandered a 17-point lead and ended up being eliminated in a one-point playoff loss Wednesday night — but the bigger embarrassment might belong to ESPN, whose announcers’ microphones died out through much of the fourth quarter.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Must Win Playoff Game Tonight or Be Eliminated, Even as Coach Named WNBA Coach of the Year Golden State Valkyries coach Natalie Nakase was just named WNBA Coach of the Year Wednesday, but that is little consolation, as the Valkyries need to win tonight’s playoff game against the Minnesota Lynx or else their season is over.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Final Game Tonight Determines Who They Play in the Playoffs, and the Game’s on KPIX Thursday night’s Golden State Valkyries game will determine whether their playoff matchup will be against the #1 team in the WNBA, or a red-hot team on a 15-game winning streak, or a team they might stand a pretty good chance against.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Clinch Playoff Spot With Last Night’s Win, But Relegated to San Jose for Home Playoff Game The thrill of the Golden State Valkyries becoming the first WNBA expansion team to make the playoffs in their first year comes with the insulting reality that they won’t get a first-round playoff game on their own home court.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Knock Off Defending Champions, Could Clinch Playoff Spot Thursday Night The first-year Golden State Valkyries could soon punch their ticket to the playoffs after an upset win over defending champions the New York Liberty on Tuesday night, and they’d be the first WNBA expansion team to make the playoffs.
SF News Sunday Links: Two $1.16M Powerball Tickets Bought in the Bay Area Remain Unclaimed The Oakland PD is removing public access to its radio communications for the first time in 100 years Wednesday; the Valkyries beat the Mystics Saturday and will host the Fever Sunday; and two unclaimed lottery tickets were purchased in Milipitas and Pleasant Hill.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Valkyries Have the Highest Average Attendance for Home Games In the Whole WNBA Despite having no star players, a mediocre record, and playing in just their first season, your Golden State Valkyries have scored the highest average home game attendance numbers in the entire WNBA.
SF News Saturday Links: Draft of California Redistricting Map Released, GOP Seats Nearly Cut in Half More than 100,000 travelers are stranded worldwide as Air Canada flight attendants have gone on strike; a crow in Walnut Creek tested positive for West Nile virus Friday; and California released a draft of a new proposed redistricting map.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries ‘Egg’ Hatches, Out Comes Their New Muppet-Like Mascot Violet Mahna Mahna! Your WNBA Golden State Valkyries busted out their new mascot Violet at Monday night’s game, and this very Muppet-resembling mascot is capable of doing the splits and back handsprings.
Bay Area Sports Valkyries Put Giant Purple Egg Outside Chase Center, In Apparent Marketing Ploy A four-foot-tall, Valkyries-purple egg appeared in front of the Chase Center Thursday morning, and the team is playing coy about what is obviously some marketing stunt.
Bay Area Sports A Rash of Dildos Have Been Thrown Onto the Court During Valkyries Games, and Players Have Had It Not one but two Golden State Valkyries games have been disrupted by fans throwing dildos onto the court in the past week, and a third WNBA dildo-tossing incident Tuesday night has the league talking about stiff penalties.
sports A Legacy Basketball Team, a Local Public Radio Station, and a Very Passionate Sportswriter The Valkyries and KALW hosted a touching reunion for the legendary Pioneers, a short-lived but groundbreaking Bay Area women’s basketball team that drew huge crowds from 1979 to 1981 — thanks in large part to the dedication of Oakland-raised sportswriter Maya Goldberg‑Safir.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Valkyries Are Now The First Women’s Sports Franchise Valued at $500 Million Despite having won barely half their games and having no real standout star, your Golden State Valkyries now hold the highest valuation of any women’s pro sports team ever, and not even a month and a half after playing their first game.
Bay Area Sports The Golden State Valkyries’ Caitlin Clark Game Is Tonight, It’s On TV On KPIX Tickets are going for as much as $2,500 a pop as WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark makes her first-ever appearance at the Chase Center Thursday night, so you will be pleased to know you can just sit home and watch it for free on KPIX’s CBS Bay Area.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Valkyries Debut at Chase Center Tonight, Boast the Most Expensive Game of the WNBA Season The expansion WNBA team the Golden State Valkyries are already setting sales records despite not even having played a game yet, but they play their first real regular season game tonight at the Chase Center.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Valkyries Play First-Ever WNBA Preseason Game at Chase Center Tonight; Tickets Start at Just $14 The historic first-ever exhibition game of SF’s new women’s NBA team the Golden State Valkyries tips off at 7 pm Tuesday night. It’s streaming online (for a price), but tickets are shockingly affordable by Chase Center standards
Bay Area Sports Golden State Valkyries Stun the World by Picking Obscure Lithuanian Player Justė Jocytė In Their First WNBA Draft There’s finally a big name on the roster of SF’s women’s pro basketball team (kind of?), as the Golden State Valkyries just shocked the women’s basketball world by selecting Lithuania’s Justė Jocytė with the No. 5 overall pick at Monday’s WNBA Draft.
Bay Area Sports WNBA’s Golden State Valkyries Announce 2025 Schedule (and the Games When Caitlin Clark is Coming to Town) The full season schedule for our new women’s pro basketball team the Golden State Valkyries was just released, with their first game in May bringing Stanford star Cameron Brink back to the Bay, and Caitlin Clark coming to the Chase Center twice.
Bay Area Sports SF’s WNBA Team Now Has a Name and Logo: They’re the Golden State Valkyries Tuesday morning’s unveiling of San Francisco's WNBA expansion team name and logo did not disappoint, as we learn that the team will be the Golden State Valkyries, with a kick-ass Bay Bridge-inspired purple logo.
