Good afternoon Valkyries Beat readers, welcome to this week’s reading list. It has been an eventful week with WNBA preseason games finally underway, the PWHL playoffs about to begin and lots of news around the NWSL calendar. This week I wrote about the Sparks a bit for the LA Times, made my USA Today debut and had my weekly Her Hoop Stats column as well. After the jump, a collection of my work from the week and some of my favorite things I read.