Watched some of the Mercury’s shoot-around this morning here in Phoenix and how they were drilling to prevent the Sparks from getting deep in the lane the way they were able to in Game 2.
LA and Phoenix have now played six times this season, so they all know everything about each other. Still, [...]
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Countdown to Game 3 in the West
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Goodbye to an advocate of women’s sports
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The first day of the WNBA playoffs is in the books, and I wrote for ESPN.com about the victories for Detroit and Los Angeles.
Earlier in the day, I saw the news that Pacer/Fever co-owner Mel Simon had died, which of course raises more questions on the Fever’s future. Then in the afternoon, I saw more [...]
Well, that certainly clears it up …
Posted in Uncategorized on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday night brought complete clarity to the WNBA playoff races, didn’t it? It’s all so easy to figure out at this point, right?
ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH!
Now we have four teams in the East with 14 victories. Just perfect. Detroit bounced back from a tough overtime loss at San Antonio by beating West leader Phoenix. In Sacramento, Connecticut [...]
The ‘gender’ question: Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized on August 26, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Track champion Caster Semenya went home to South Africa on Tuesday, and her country cheered wildly. Officials and fans celebrated her victory last week in the 800 meters at the World Championships of Track and Field.
They denounced track’s governing body, the IAAF, for requesting gender testing be done for Semenya because of physical [...]
The ‘gender’ question, Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized on August 21, 2009 | 12 Comments »
The current controversy over the gender question about runner Caster Semenya brings up so many different topics of discussion that I couldn’t begin to adequately cover then all. But let’s at least try to sort through some of them. I’ll call this blog entry “part 1” in that regard, with the thought that there is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One for the ‘Angels’
Posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Accomplished academics have written about how “Charlie’s Angels” – “jiggle” television that it was – has its place in feminist history, pop-culture division.
I’m not an accomplished academic _ or any kind of academic _ just someone who’s watched an inordinate amount of 1970s television. So what I offer here, in tribute to the passing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
