Ariel Investments, a Chicago-based firm that manages $13.8 billion, is starting a new fund to buy up holdings in women’s sports.

Denver will be named the winner of a new women’s pro soccer franchise—beating Clark’s Cincinnati bid in part because it plans to build a stadium.

The latest: He and Gov. Jared Polis joined National Women's Soccer League commissioner Jessica Berman on Thursday to celebrate Denver becoming home to the 16th NWSL club. The yet-to-be-named team expects to start competing in 2026.

The first professional women's sports team in a major national league will soon call Denver home as the National Women's Soccer League, NWSL, announced its newest team will set up shop in the Mile High City.

U.S. women’s national team legend Carli Lloyd is lacing her boots up again. But don’t look for her in the National Women’s Soccer League. Lloyd will be playing with a collection of former USWNT teammates in The Soccer Tournament,

The investment group bring the team to Denver said the team name and stadium location are still being finalized.

Quinn has spent more than a decade on the CanWNT, winning two Olympic medals in the process. Now, they’re knocking off one more bucket list item: playing professionally in Canada, for the inaugural Northern Super League season.

For Denver FC’s grassroots movement to rally the city around a bid for an NWSL paid off this month, when the league awarded Denver its 16th team, set to begin play in 2026.

The locations of the Denver NWSL franchise's permanent and temporary stadiums are unknown, but the area's newest pro team owners said Thursday they plan unprecedented investment in women's sports.

The club’s alternate governor Mellody Hobson declared Thursday’s launch as further evidence that “women’s sports are at a generational shift.”