A lot going on today, but that’s good. I’ll soon be talking with Kathy Betty, head of the new Dream ownership group, and will have a story on ESPN.com.
Also today, though, I head out toward Western Kansas for an event called the WEPAC Hoops for Hope charity basketball game. Former players from the likes of [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Starting to get busy here
Posted in Women's basketball on October 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Don’t look, but here’s my ballot
Posted in Women's basketball on October 29, 2009 | 13 Comments »
I told you not to look!
You know that goofy and annoying Carfax commercial, where the customer wants to see the a vehicle’s history report, but the nervous sales guy gets out a hand puppet as a lame form of distraction?
”You want to see the Car Fox?” he says, ridiculously.
OK, yes, it is really stupid. [...]
A sportswriter’s stress dream
Posted in Women's basketball on October 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
A Facebook friend posted the other day that he had “that dream” … the one where he is back in college and realizes that he has not gone to a certain class all semester, surely has missed tests/projects, and is totally unprepared for the final.
This seems to be one of those near-universal dreams. And [...]
Nope! Pick somebody else, Coach
Posted in Women's basketball on October 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Geno Auriemma couldn’t select UConn to win the Big East like every other coach in the league did. Same for Tara VanDerveer and Stanford in the Pac-10.
OK, this is NOT something I get upset about or anything. It’s just that every year before the start of the hoops season, I remember that it [...]
The ‘near’ and the ‘far’ at Iowa State
Posted in Women's basketball on October 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This past July, I went to see “Six-on-Six: The Musical,” which is an homage to girls’ basketball as it used to be played in the state of Iowa.
Playwright and director Robert John Ford witnessed the famed state tournament himself while in high school in Iowa in 1978, and then again in 1987 [...]
So what do readers want?
Posted in Women's sports, Women's basketball on October 20, 2009 | 20 Comments »
My thoughts about the move of the Detroit Shock to Tulsa are on ESPN.com now, and I’ll look at that more on that site and here later as well.
But here’s a question for readers/followers of women’s basketball in terms of media coverage. Essentially, it’s this: What are the things you most look for and [...]
Try really connecting with the WNBA
Posted in Women's basketball on October 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »
A few more thoughts as the WNBA season hands off to the college season …
With the pro league’s season being done, we once again are in a waiting mode about various franchises. I just accept this is a part of the business, and perhaps will be for the foreseeable future. Economics being [...]
K-State’s Ohlde gets to celebrate title
Posted in Women's basketball on October 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Have plenty of thoughts about the WNBA finals over on ESPN.com, but want to take the opportunity on the blog to follow up on the previous post about the Sunflower State connections in the series.
With Phoenix’s 94-86 victory over Indiana in Game 5 of the WNBA Finals, Kansas State grad Nicole Ohlde wins her [...]
Sunflower power in the WNBA finals
Posted in Women's basketball on October 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There is something a little extra special about seeing players in the WNBA Finals that you got a chance to watch a lot when they were in college. Such is the case for me with Phoenix’s Nicole Ohlde (Kansas State) and Indiana’s Tamecka Dixon (Kansas).
One or the other is going to win a WNBA [...]
Interesting day in Indy
Posted in Women's sports, Women's basketball on October 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Three months ago, I made the same drive that I did this weekend: Kansas City to Indianapolis, stopping in St. Louis along the way.
When I did it in July, it was to see Indiana play Connecticut; the Fever had a six-game winning streak going then and I figured I was sure to jinx them [...]
