Tom Mayenknecht: Women's sports and the Whitecaps wearing the crowns this week

It was another solid week for the rise of women’s professional sports, with the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) confirming Seattle would be its eighth franchise. That happened just one week after Vancouver’s Pacific Coliseum was officially announced as the home of the league’s seventh entry. Unmistakable is the corporate clout and financial capacity behind the PWHL, which is currently emerging as a single-entity structure with all teams owned and operated by the