"basketball" Articles & Blogs:
Women's Equality
| Equality
Going to the polls to vote, or stepping out on the court to play a basketball game, I realize that I have a voice. My voice stands for all women. Women who were not and still cannot vote for anything. For women who cannot participate in sports a...[Read on] |
Critique of March Madness Sports Illustrated Cover
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Sports Illustrated 2010 March Madness Cover
I love March Madness. Every year I wait for the March Madness cover of Sports Illustrated. Every year I do a critique of the cover. Now that I have a blog, I can post the critique for the first time as ...[Read on] |
Take a Knee: Teen Girls Talk B-Ball, Leadership, Life
| By Laura Pappano
Because we can all benefit from hearing serious young female athlete voices, we connected with three talented basketball players who just finished nine days at the summer academy run by the non-profit SportsChallenge Leadership & Edu...[Read on] |
Confessions of a new fan, or "How I learned to stop worrying and love women's basketball"
| Confession time.
I have never played a game of basketball.
I have never even shot a basketball.
And had you asked me a year ago about basketball, I would have looked at you blankly and asked, "Doesn't it stop like, every five minutes?" or tried to comp...[Read on] |
Hard Targets: Sport & Art at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio
| The Wexner Center, on the campus of Ohio State University, is hosting Hard Targets, a gorgeous exhibit of contemporary art centered on images of men and sport curated by Christopher Bedford (who gives me a run for the money in terms of fanaticism)...[Read on] |
David vs. Goliath: NCAA one step closer to its champion
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As of last night, there are now two teams left in the greatest basketball tournament of the year: University of Connecticut Huskies and the Louisville Cardinals.
Yesterday, UConn seemed to easily handle Stanford, winning 83-64, and Louisville squeaked by...[Read on] |
Coach Sharp to lead Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund
| Great news from the WBCA! We've landed a great leader to guide the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund.ATLANTA -The Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund®, in partnership with The V Foundation for Cancer Research, announces Marsha Sharp, avid women’s basketball pioneer, as th...[Read on] |
Mel Greenberg says goodbye to the Inquirer but not to women’s basketball
| Twitpic from @jtannenwald: Farewell party for @womhoopsguru
He is known as the Guru. He is a walking encyclopedia of women’s basketball history, mostly because he witnessed, chronicled and helped shape it for four decades.
I first met Mel Greenber...[Read on] |
Where's Cinderella?
| "Me and Caroline (her sister who is 2 and more into Elmo aka "Mel Mo") like Areil best". So I stood there looking at these plastic toys never having seen any of the movies (I wasn't a deprived kid, we just played more than we sat in front of a...[Read on] |
WNBA’s economic struggles
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The economy isn’t just hurting the everyday blue- collar workers, it’s also hurting the future of professional women’s basketball.
It was brought to my attention by a friend to take a look at an article released on ESPN.com today, in regards to the ...[Read on] |
Tragic loss for a young player in San Antonio, South Texas Hoyas spearhead support
| While the nation’s top women’s basketball teams prepare for a showcase at San Antonio’s AT&T;Center, a young player in the city is coping with the lost her biggest fan.
Saturday morning, the mother of an 11 year-old player for the South Texas Hoyas...[Read on] |
Basketball teammates help girl with amnesia
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Just saw this story on ABC’s World News. It’s a good one. Good enough to share it with you.
It’s about a girl named Kayla Hutchinson, who, at the age of 19 as a student-athlete at Walla Walla Community College, collided with a teammate during a bas...[Read on] |
President Obama fills out women’s brackets for ESPN
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We all know President Barack Obama is a huge hoops fans. In fact after last year’s NCAA title, Obama invited the UConn women’s team to a championship ceremony at the White House and even ended up shooting baskets with the players. At the time, he sa...[Read on] |
Are Females Interested in Supporting Women's Sports?
| NPR writer Frank Deford opens his article by highlighting all of the recent media attention given to female athletes. From Lindsey Vonn and Danica Patrick to Serena Williams, the media has taken notice. But, there seems to be a distinct divide where indiv...[Read on] |
Stringer rightfully complains about Rutgers’ failure to market her program
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Rutgers women’s basketball team have done it again - they’re on their fourth trip to the elite eight in five years. That’s pretty amazing.
But in an article released on NJ.com today, head women’s basketball coach Vivian Stringer was not happy.
I...[Read on] |
Women and (March) Madness
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It's that time of year. Yes, the birds are starting to chirp and the crocuses are peeking their little colorful heads up through the dry, brittle grass. This, I am very excited about. But what has me even more excited at this exact moment is a different k...[Read on] |
WNBA’s Sky to host celebrity team in battle of the sexes
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The Chicago Sky will host the first-ever Basketball Battle of the Sexes game when it takes on an all-male team from the Entertainment League in a June exhibition contest.
The game, at 7 p.m. June 2 p.m. at the UIC Pavilion, will be played with WNBA offic...[Read on] |
Crystal Langhorne’s Got Milk
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WNBA player Crystal Langhorne is the latest model-athlete to stump for the “Body by Milk” campaign.
Crystal has known basketball success at every level, including on the international stage. As a member of the 2007 U21 USA Basketball Team, she won...[Read on] |
College Hoops: It’s The Girls’ Turn
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Who’s in? Who’s out? The NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament field was announced this evening as 64 teams waited to hear where they’ll be playing their first round games starting March 21.
March Madness & Final Four is a phenomenon that grips the ...[Read on] |
Iraqi girls live the dream at in Lady Vols’ basketball camp
| An Iraqi girls’ basketball team took part in a Tennessee Lady Vols basketball camp last week as part of a program promoting peace and cultural understanding through sports.
Under Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi National Women’s Basketball Team was dismantl...[Read on] |
Hartford paper rethinks idea to publish Auriemma’s daughter
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I grew up in Connecticut where women’s basketball rules.
Long before other women’s college teams got exposure and respect, the public TV station broadcast the UConn games. In fact, CPTV began its coverage of the university women during the 1993-94 ...[Read on] |
UConn women’s basketball champions visit White House
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The benefits of being the best. Win a national championship and you, too, could go to the White House.
A championship ceremony at the White House is standard for many national sports teams. But shooting hoops with the president, now that’s something e...[Read on] |
Obama welcomes UConn women’s team to White House
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President Barack Obama welcomed the University of Connecticut’s national champion women’s basketball team to the White House Monday, and it was a reunion for many of the players and the Prez.
The UConn women won their second straight NCAA championsh...[Read on] |
The Evolution of the WNBA
| Efficiency, Pace, and Points
The WNBA crossed an important milestone this season. It was the first time the league averaged more than 1 point per possession. After being fairly flat for several years, the WNBA had it's most efficient offensive season...[Read on] |
2010 female ESPY winners
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The 2010 ESPYs took place on July 14 at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN at the Nokia Theatre at L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, Calif. While not known as super female friendly (e.g. they give trophies to the best MLS player but not the best WPS player), the ESPYs did honor...[Read on] |
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