Lots of Q-and-A-ing on Wednesday as the WNBA had a conference call in the afternoon, and I chatted with Lauren Jackson during the evening in Australia. Yeah, she was in Oz, not me, and it was Thursday afternoon there.
LJ is in the wedding of Seattle teammate Suzy Batkovic on May 30, then she flies [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Let’s get the WNBA ball rollin’
Posted in Women's basketball on May 28, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The gift of “seeing it” by reading about it
Posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today, May 26, is the 50th anniversary of Harvey Haddix’s legendary Major League Baseball feat: He pitched 12 perfect innings, but lost in the 13th inning.
Haddix, a left-hander then for the Pittsburgh Pirates, set down 36 consecutive Milwaukee Braves batters on May 26, 1959. Then an error, a sacrifice bunt, an intentional walk and [...]
Another part of Missouri’s troubles
Posted in Women's basketball on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Take a look at Texas A&M’s roster for 2009-2010, and you see one of the problems for Missouri’s women’s basketball team. Three players from the Kansas City area will be competing for the Aggies next year. Tanisha Smith and Tyra White are returners; Danielle Adams comes in after being the national juco player of the [...]
What’s missing from Missouri’s resurgence?
Posted in Jumbo Dozen, Women's basketball on May 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of the ongoing issues in the Big 12 is how the North schools can keep up with the South. In general, the South schools have bigger athletic-department budgets and they are easier to recruit to for most sports because of weather and population base.
Among the North schools that for the longest time [...]
ESPN.com update
Posted in Uncategorized on May 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, the ESPN.com women’s basketball page has been super-duper dead for the last month or so. Things will liven back up starting this week, as we begin to look toward the start of the WNBA season.
BTW, the reason that page contains both college hoops and WNBA is because there just wasn’t a lot of traffic [...]
Some ruminating on diamonds
Posted in Women's basketball on May 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Are you ever amazed by the randomness of how the same topic can appear in your life for no particular reason two days in a row after you hadn’t thought about it for quite some time?
Such is the case with the movie, “A League of Their Own.” Just got back from vacation, [...]
Reeled back in by Rachel
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Ralph Waldo Emerson famously wrote, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” – with the emphasis, one would assume, on “foolish.”
Because plain, old consistency (the non-foolish kind) is one of the most desired traits by everyone, isn’t it? And, certainly, something you look for in other people. Inconsistency is seen as annoying at [...]
Will the new ever get old for the Mystics?
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
If you can name, in order, everyone who’s been a head coach for the Washington Mystics …
No, scrap that. If you can name them all even out of order, you are either a WNBA junkie (congratulations) or a true-blue Mystics fan (condolences).
Just kidding about the condolences. It’s not been that bad to [...]
Unavoidable agonizing over PEDs
Posted in Women's basketball on May 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
There will be upcoming posts here soon on the “new” (they hope) Washington Mystics, the Pac-10 coach-hiring “philosophies” (if that’s what you want to call them) and a combo look back/look ahead for Baylor’s women (they of the most-intriguing recruiting class).
All that stuff should have landed on this blog by now, but for an [...]
Elliott’s hiring at Cincy good time to mark progress
Posted in Women's basketball on May 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Slow as progress is, frustrating as it can be when it’s stopped in its tracks or detoured, it’s important to point out situations that prove progress is being made.
Jamelle Elliott’s hiring as the new head coach at Cincinnati makes sense for really obvious reasons. She’s been involved with UConn women’s basketball since the fall [...]
