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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Last year, I did a few posts regarding similarity scores . From the earlier post: Similarity Scores was designed to be a fair way to compare players by their career statistical lines. The idea is "start with 1000" points and then begin to take away points from points of difference. For example, if two players had career steals totals that were 20 steals apart, we would take one point away...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
It was a match between two unbeatens: one was Ros Casares (4-0), last year's Liga Femenina winner, and the other was Rivas Ecopolis (3-1), which surprised a few Spanish basketball followers by defeating the powerful Perfumerias team. Rivas Ecopolis, however, is not on the level of El Ros, not yet anyway, as they lost 73-56 to the visitors. The box score is here . No photos, not yet anyway. The win...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Anna Cruz blasts by a Perfumerias defender. It was a keynote match between Perfumerias (1-1) and Rivas Ecopolis (2-0), a pair of teams that would love to knock Ros Casares out of the LFB championship. It was also a battle between Sancho Lyttle of Perfumerias and Crystal Langhorne of Rivas Ecopolis. Lyttle won the battle of points, but Perfumerias lost the war, losing in overtime 80-71 on the road....
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The FanHouse - NBA (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
by Michelle Smith Filed under: WNBA , USA Basketball Camp Geno breaks today. The current incarnation of the U.S. women's national team, coached by Geno Auriemma, leaves today for Ekaterinburg, Russia to take on a group of club teams in an invitational tournament. Following six days of training camp in Washington, the 13-player roster was selected for Monday's flight. It includes 2008 Olympians Sue...
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Women's Hoops Blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Ta Da!: USA Basketball Women's National Team Set To Travel To Russia For First Test After training for six days in Washington, D.C., 2009-12 USA Basketball Women's National Team members and Olympic gold medalists Sue Bird (Seattle Storm), Sylvia Fowles (Chicago Sky) and Candace Parker (Los Angeles Sparks) will lead a USA squad in Russia in the four-team 2009 Ekaterinburg International Invitational....
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
From USA Basketball via the Hartford Courant and John Altavilla: "After training for six days in Washington, D.C., 2009-12 USA Basketball Women's National Team members and Olympic gold medalists Sue Bird (Seattle Storm), Sylvia Fowles (Chicago Sky) and Candace Parker (Los Angeles Sparks) will lead a USA squad in Russia in the four-team 2009 Ekaterinburg International Invitational. Also selected...
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DC BasketCases (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
The Future Is Now How lucky are we?!! The USA Basketball Women's National Team convened its first training camp this week (since the last Olympics) right here in Washington, D.C., at -- appropriately enough -- American University. Today the team held an open practice, and those of us who passed up the glorious fall day outside to spend several hours indoors at Bender Arena made an excellent choice....
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WNBA.com (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 22, 2009) -- Fourteen athletes who have been members of prior USA Basketball teams have accepted invitations to attend the 2009 USA Basketball Women's National Team's fall training camp as the U.S. begins preparations for the 2010 FIBA World Championship. <p> The 14 athletes will join the previously announced eight members of the 2009-12 USA Basketball Women's National...
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WNBA.com (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2009 – Washington Mystics forward/center Crystal Langhorne has been named the 2009 WNBA Most Improved Player presented by Kia Motors, the league announced today. Langhorne received 19 votes from a national panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. Atlanta Dream forward Sancho Lyttle finished second with six votes and Dream center Erika de Souza and Seattle Storm guard Tanisha...
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WNBA.com (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2009 – Diana Taurasi of the Phoenix Mercury, Candace Parker of the Los Angeles Sparks and Sue Bird of the Seattle Storm won the 2009 WNBA Peak Performer Awards for scoring, rebounding and assists, respectively, the WNBA announced today. <p> The WNBA Peak Performer awards are given annually to the players who lead the league in scoring, rebounding and assists during the...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Angel McCoughtry has accepted an invitation to attend the 2009 USA Basketball Women's National Team fall training camp. The camp meets from September 30th to October 5th at American University in Washington, DC. A 12-member team will be assembled at some point in the future. Currently attending the camp: Alana Beard Swin Cash Tina Charles * Shameka Christon Candice Dupree Lindsey Harding Ebony Hoffman...
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Women's Hoops Blog (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Some new names added to the USA Basketball Training Camp Roster: Jayne Appel (Stanford / Pleasant Hill, Calif.); Alana Beard (Washington Mystics); Swin Cash (Seattle Storm); Tina Charles (Connecticut / Jamaica, N.Y.); Shameka Christon (New York Liberty); Candice Dupree (Chicago Sky); Lindsey Harding (Washington Mystics); Ebony Hoffman (Indiana Fever); Asjha Jones (Connecticut Sun); Crystal Langhorne...
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DC BasketCases (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Welcome Additions! U S A Basketball announced today that 14 additional players have been invited to this fall's USA Women's National Team Training Camp, which will be held right here in DC at American University from September 30th to October 5th. The 14 "newcomers" will join the 8 players already selected for the 2009-12 National Team, and will be vying for roster spots on the 12-member...
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
The Washington Mystics were eliminated from the WNBA playoffs on Saturday night with an 81-74 overtime loss to the host Indiana Fever in Game 2 of the best-of-three Eastern Conference semifinals. Crystal Langhorne (Maryland) scored 11 of her 15 points in the second half. Lindsey Harding and Alana Beard scored 10 each for Washington, but Beard shot a 10-foot airball from the left side as the fourth...
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