| TAMPA, Fla. (February 4, 2025) – The 2025 Women’s College All-Star Game will once again take place during national championship weekend, with the event set for April 5 in Tampa. The postseason all-star showcase, which returned after a nearly 20-year absence last season, will be televised on ESPN2 at 3 p.m. ET. The Women’s College All-Star Game Watch List presented by Herbalife was also revealed today. The watch list, compiled with the help of a nationally renowned panel of media experts, broadcasters and other stakeholders, while also taking into consideration national preseason, midseason and weekly award winners, features dozens of players poised to continue their careers on the professional level. While not an exhaustive list as players have the opportunity to play their way into consideration as the season progresses, the watch list includes top players such as: UConn’s Paige Bueckers Notre Dame’s Olivia Miles and Sonia Citron LSU’s Aneesah Morrow South Carolina’s Te-Hina Paopao USC’s Kiki iIriafen TCU’s Hailey Van Lith Kansas State’s Ayoka Lee The complete watch list can be found here. The final event roster will be announced the week of the event. Participants in the Women’s College All-Star Game will be players that have exhausted or will for forego their remaining eligibility. Last April, 20 of college basketball’s top senior standouts converged in Cleveland to rekindle the postseason event that Intersport helped originally launch in 1998. There, five All-Americans, more than a dozen All-Conference standouts and four future WNBA draft picks competed in front of nearly 5,000 fans on the eve of the sport’s national championship game. Tickets for the 2025 event, which will take place at Tampa Prep, located one mile from Amalie Arena, the site of the women’s college basketball national championship game, will go on sale starting March 6, with the presale taking place March 5. To stay up to date on the latest ticket info and register for the exclusive presale visit www.womenscollegeallstar.com/tickets. National brands have already signed on to be part of the 2025 event, including Herbalife and Skechers. Intersport launched the inaugural Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-Star Challenge in 1998, which the WBCA operated through 2006. The Chicago-based agency was also a longstanding partner with the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and ESPN to stage the prestigious Women’s Tip-Off Classic that annually featured the sport’s top programs in high-profile matchups as part of ESPN’s early season programming. Today, Intersport continues to operate major men’s and women’s college basketball events throughout the season, including the CBS Sports Classic, the Elevance Health Women’s Fort Myers Tip-Off, Arizona Tip-Off and other major showcase events. Final rosters, coaches and more details will be available online and www.womenscollegeallstar.com and by following @IntersportHoops on Instagram and X. |
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Claressa Shields beats Danielle Perkins to become boxing’s first undisputed women’s heavyweight champion
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Claressa Shields made history in her hometown of Flint.
The “GWOAT” defeated Danielle Perkins by unanimous decision to become boxing’s first-ever women’s undisputed heavyweight champion. She also earned the accolade of being the only three-division undisputed champion, male or female, of the four-belt era.
Shields (16-0, 3 KOs) is known for her strong jab, but that was nonexistent on Sunday night at the Dort Financial Center in Flint, Michigan. She explained in her post-fight interview that she was unable to use her jab because she tore a labrum in her left shoulder just nine days prior to fight night.
Shields, Uncrowned’s No. 1 pound-for-pound women’s boxer in the world, instead focused her efforts on landing the straight right hand and overhand right on the southpaw Perkins, which she did consistently throughout the fight. She hurt Perkins for the first time in Round 3 with an overhand right and almost secured an early knockout, but Perkins managed to stand up to the assault that followed.
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In Round 7, a straight right hand buzzed Perkins heavily, and Shields once again looked for a finish that didn’t come. To her credit, Perkins became more aggressive in the final three rounds, looking to get her own work off on Shields.
With around 10 seconds to go in the 10th and final round, Perkins threw a slow left hand, which Shields slipped and countered with a sharp right, flooring Perkins. There wasn’t any time left for Shields to look for the finish as the final bell rang just after the referee signaled for the action to resume.
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Shields was awarded every round on one scorecard, 100-89, nine rounds on a second scorecard, 99-90, and seven rounds on the third card, 97-92. She said in her post-fight interview that she wished to box two more times in 2025, naming a list of potential opponents, which included Franchon Crews-Dezurn, Hanna Gabriels, Savannah Marshall, MMA legend Cris Cyborg and retired trailblazer Laila Ali.
Check out full results, highlights and play-by-play of the Shields-vs.-Perkins fight card below.
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Main Card
Undisputed heavyweight title: Claressa Shields def. Danielle Perkins via unanimous decision (100-89, 97-92, 99-90)
Heavyweight: Brandon Moore def. Skylar Lacy via 8th-round DQ | Watch video
Super welterweight: Joseph Hicks Jr. def. Keon Papillion via 7th-round TKO | Watch video
Super lightweight: Joshua Pagan def. Ronal Ron via unanimous decision (79-73, 78-74, 78-74)
Super featherweight: Caroline Veyre def. Carmen Vargas via unanimous decision (80-72, 80-72, 80-72)
Super bantamweight: Ashleyann Lozada def. Denise Moran via unanimous decision (40-36, 40-36, 40-36)
Nelly Korda Kicks Off 2025 LPGA Run with 2nd Place Tour of Champions Finish
US golf star Nelly Korda came out swinging this weekend, taking second place at the Tournament of Champions to launch her 2025 LPGA campaign.
The world No. 1 narrowly fell to tournament winner No. 35 A Lim Kim, with the South Korean standout picking up her third career LPGA win and her second since November 2024. Her 20-under-par result also marked her second straight win in which she never trailed at the end of any round.
Korda pulled within one stroke of Kim on the back nine, before the eventual champion surged ahead with three birdies in her last four holes. With her 7-under Sunday performance, Korda finished the tournament at an impressive 18-under.
The result marked Korda’s fifth-straight Top 5 finish, a streak that dates back to last August’s AIG Women’s Open.
“This is what I love about golf — being in the hunt on a Sunday going down the back nine,” an upbeat Korda told reporters after her final round. “I’m never going to complain finishing second in a tournament and giving it a run… There are definitely a couple putts I would like to have back, but overall I think I’m very happy with this week and excited for next week.”
Next up: Korda’s home course advantage
The LPGA next lands in Korda’s hometown of Bradenton, Florida, for the Founders Cup, which tees off on Thursday.
That home course advantage, as well as the fact that Korda won the Drive On Championship on those links last season, makes her the tournament’s unofficial favorite this year.
Fellow US star and world No. 14 Rose Zhang is the Founders Cup’s defending champion, with her win snapping Korda’s historic five-tournament win streak last year. That said, the 2024 edition took place at New Jersey’s Upper Montclair Country Club, so the Florida relocation removes the course familiarity that would normally give the reigning title-holder an assumed edge.
Korda’s preparation for the upcoming competition will be intentionally light, as she doesn’t normally practice during tournament weeks.
“Definitely some areas where I feel like I need to kind of tighten up some loose ends,” Korda said on Sunday. “Overall, I think I can’t complain about the state of my golf game right now.”
Unlike her jam-packed season start last year, this week’s even will be Korda’s last before a seven-week pause. She has opted out of three upcoming tournaments — the Honda LPGA Thailand, the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore, or the Blue Bay LPGA in China.
Korda will instead return to play at the end of March, when the Ford Championship tees off in Chandler, Arizona.