Monday, Katie Smith went to the White House with the rest of the current Detroit Shock members (and a few no longer with the team but who were part of the 2008 championship group.)
Maybe that was the perfect way to start the second half of this WNBA season for the Shock: by celebrating what the [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Smith still believes in the Shock
Posted in Women's basketball on July 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
All-Star Game: Fun for everybody
Posted in Women's basketball on July 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just a few observations from Saturday’s All-Star Game that don’t have anything to do with UConn (because I did that for ESPN.com):
*-Kudos to LJ: Lauren Jackson has sore Achilles’ tendon, and I can’t imagine any fan or journalist would have criticized her if she’d skipped the flight to Connecticut and the All-Star Game. She still [...]
Off to the All-Star Game
Posted in Women's basketball on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was feeling pretty peacock-like when Tamika Catchings had a season-high 28 points in Tuesday’s Indiana victory over Washington. Why? Because I’d already planned to write about her for ESPN.com, and so the story ran Wednesday after she’d had this great game.
When the “impossible” almost happens
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It was 55 degrees early Sunday morning in the Kansas City area. Absurd, I thought, shivering as my dog frolicked after her breakfast. It can’t be this cold in July. It’s impossible.
But … then it occurred to me that maybe this was a sign that the impossible really could happen. Great! We needed such [...]
Examining the “right” to say what’s wrong
Posted in Women's basketball on July 17, 2009 | 13 Comments »
A couple of years ago at a WNBA finals game in Sacramento, a fellow writer and I got to talking about something that I’ve always found difficult to discuss. It was a relief to talk to her about it, because she understood exactly what I meant and had similar feelings about it.
Here’s what it was: [...]
Let’s not forget what Parker’s trying to do
Posted in Women's basketball on July 15, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The Los Angeles Sparks fell 82-71 at Connecticut on Tuesday, and the preseason favorite’s worries got a little more intense. The Sparks are now 4-8 _ um, you may have noticed the 3-10 team behind LA in the West standings just fired its coach _ and so the question has to be asked.
Are the [...]
Monarchs firing Boucek is a senseless decision
Posted in Women's basketball on July 13, 2009 | 21 Comments »
Every once in a while, there are personnel moves in sports that are so unfair, so wrong-headed and so contrary to progress that I have a hard time sitting down long enough to type in my thoughts about them.
Because what I feel more like doing is rampaging around and screaming. Witnessing sheer stupidity has that [...]
Deuces are wild on Saturday
Posted in Women's basketball on July 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Three of four WNBA games were decided by a single, solitary basket Saturday … and in the only contest that wasn’t close, Candace Parker had two points.
So two was the magic number on a crazy night where if you’re a Monarchs’ fan, you’re saying, “OK, what else can happen to us?” … if [...]
World Cup review: The week *before* Brandi got famous
Posted in Women's sports on July 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It was during this week 10 years ago that we were all building toward the “dream” final of the 1999 Women’s World Cup: USA vs. China at a sold-out Rose Bowl.
The semifinals had been at Stanford Stadium on July 4, and that was an incredible day. Briana Scurry was brilliant in goal, and so I [...]
Revisiting Teasley’s recent thoughts is rather eerie
Posted in Women's basketball on July 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A few weeks ago, I chatted with Atlanta guard Nikki Teasley about coming back to the WNBA after missing last season on maternity leave.
One of the things we discussed was how surprised she was that fellow North Carolina graduate Ivory Latta had been cut from the team before the season began.
