On Her Game, Christine Brennan
On Her Game, Christine Brennan
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On Her Game
Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women's Sports

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Author: Christine Brennan

Narrator: Christine Brennan

Unabridged: 8 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/08/2025

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Instant New York Times Bestseller!

A news-making and electrifying portrait of sports phenomenon Caitlin Clark, whose dramatic ascendance in college basketball and now in the WNBA has captured the attention of media and fans unlike any other female team-sport athlete in history—by award-winning USA TODAY columnist and television commentator Christine Brennan.

America has never seen an athlete quite like Caitlin Clark. Attracting record-shattering attendance and TV ratings, she has riveted the nation with her famous logo threes and thrilling passes and changed how fans across the country view women’s sports. Drawing on dozens of extensive interviews and exclusive, behind-the-scenes reporting, veteran journalist Christine Brennan narrates Clark’s rise—including the formative experiences that led to her scoring more points than any woman or man in major college basketball history—and delivers fascinating new details about Clark’s Olympic snub by USA Basketball, the safety concerns around her that led to charter flights for all players, the WNBA’s lack of preparation for heightened national scrutiny, and troubling outbreaks of jealousy and resentment as a white player became the top story in a predominantly Black league.

The 2024 season was a watershed. Always taking the high road in the face of criticism, Clark proceeded to write herself into WNBA record books as one of the league’s most talented rookies ever. And her winning persona—on full display whether surrounded by children begging for autographs or reporters hanging on her every word—made Clark such a fan favorite that increasingly larger arenas needed to be found to accommodate the hordes who traveled hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of miles to watch her play.

Clark arrived as a sports and cultural icon a little more than fifty years after the passage of Title IX, the 1972 law that opened the floodgates for girls and women to play sports in America. On Her Game is a sports story, certainly, but it’s also the story of a nation falling in love with what it has created because of that law—millions of new athletes, led by the magical Caitlin Clark.

About Christine Brennan

Christine Brennan is an award-winning national sports columnist for USA TODAY; a commentator for ABC, CNN, and PBS NewsHour; and the bestselling author of Inside Edge, named one of the top 100 sports books of all time by Sports Illustrated. She has been selected as one of the country’s top ten sports columnists multiple times by the Associated Press Sports Editors and has covered the last twenty-one Olympic Games, summer and winter. A trailblazer, she was the first woman sportswriter at The Miami Herald, the first woman to cover Washington’s NFL team for The Washington Post, and the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on June 29, 2025

For whatever reason my new Barnes and Noble had this for sale super early (actual publishing date is July 8th) so I bought it and pretty much read it in one day. It was really fun to relive the 2024 WNBA season. It’s pretty telling that anyone who possibly could look bad during that season declined t......more

Goodreads review by Linda on July 05, 2025

As an Iowan, sports fan, and believer in girls and women, I’m in awe of this time, the movement, and Caitlin Clark. Brennan writes the book similar to a USA Today article. It’s very readable for middle grade to adults. She covers the last year of Caitlin’s career, mostly the WNBA portion. She talks......more

Goodreads review by John on June 28, 2025

Based on this, it is apparent Christine Brennan is positioning to serve as the Boswell for Caitlin Clark, a role similar to that played by Brian Windhorst for LeBron James. That perception certainly colors one's impression of this book... Brennan is a big fan, and there isn't much wiggle room here. Wh......more

Goodreads review by Kimberly on July 09, 2025

Superstar disrupts WNBA. League utterly unprepared.......more

Goodreads review by Joey on July 21, 2025

Christine Brennan’s On Her Game sets out to chronicle the meteoric rise of Caitlin Clark, one of the most electrifying figures in women’s basketball. And in the book’s best moments, Brennan delivers just that: a clear, detailed, and enthusiastic recap of Clark’s college dominance at Iowa and her tra......more