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UConn Women's Hoops Blog (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
USA Basketball Gold Medalist and UConn All-American Sr. C Tina Charles was named the 2009 USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year today by USA Basketball. Charles was the USA's leading scorer and rebounder while helping the 2009 USA Women's World University Games Team capture a perfect record and gold medal July 2-11 in Belgrade, Serbia. She returned to the red, white and blue two months later for...
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Women's Hoops Blog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
From the Arizona Republic: 5 Things Arizonans are NOT grateful for* . . . *But should be 2. Mercury We all share in the thrill and glory of local champions. Arizonans can be grateful for a high-powered, crowd-pleasing team that just won the WNBA crown for the second time in the past three seasons. The Mercury's running offense excites fans and stuns opponents. Star player Diana Taurasi's antics and...
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Fanster - All Sports. All Phoenix. (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women will be held next September and October in the Czech Republic, and the Phoenix Mercury are very well represented. As of now, two players from the WNBA champion Mercury, Diana Taurasi and Cappie Pondexter, will be donning the red, white and blue for Team USA next fall. FIBA has also [...]
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The Sporting Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Followers of women's college basketball (and I consider myself one) know that often, superstar players swing titles. That's why Baylor's Brittney Griner is going to receive truckloads of speculation , why Candace Parker won her fame as the difference-maker for Tennessee two years ago, and why UConn's Geno Auriemma could utter "We have Diana (Taurasi) and you don't" and usher a phrase into...
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The Sporting Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Followers of women's college basketball (and I consider myself one) know that often, superstar players swing titles. That's why Baylor's Brittney Griner is going to receive truckloads of speculation , why Candace Parker won her fame as the difference-maker for Tennessee two years ago, and why UConn's Geno Auriemma could utter "We have Diana (Taurasi) and you don't" and usher a phrase into...
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Chasing the Title (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The current word on the street is that the wife of the assassinated owner of the Spartak Moscow basketball team will take over ownership and continue employing Lauren Jackson, Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Sylvia Fowles and other WNBA stars this WNBA off-season. Despite that assurance, the Canberra Capitals (coached by Opals Head Coach and Jackson friend, Carrie Graf) of Australia's WNBL are aggressively...
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Women's Hoops Blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Need to kill some time before the season starts? Check out YouTube for Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird: Best Friends, Better Rivals
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No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Deadspin The irreverent sports blog broke this story about the drive-by murder earlier this week of a billionaire Russian oligarch sports team owner. If future Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov ever invites you to watch a game in the owner's box, don't accept. Not only will you be stuck watching the Nets, there's a decent chance you'll be caught up in an assassination attempt. Shabtai Kalmanovich, one...
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The FanHouse - NBA (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
by Michelle Smith Filed under: WNBA When Spartak owner Shabtai von Kalmanovic was murdered in Moscow on Monday, the women's basketball world was rocked. Kalmanonic put together a powerhouse team in Russia with Diana Taurasi , Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson. He showered his players with huge paychecks and opulent accommodations, and he raised the standard for top U.S. players overseas. And he won championships....
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Women's Hoops Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
From Sports Illustrated's Jack McCallum: My Sportsman: Diana Taurasi We don't pick perfect people to be our Sportsman; if we did, the award would be vacant every year. We pick people who put it on the line on, dazzle us with their talent and demonstrate their passion for the game to us, transferring some of it to us in the process. That is Taurasi. Geno Auriemma, her college coach, once declared his...
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UCONN | Women's Basketball (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The WNBA just sent this along, knowing as I do, that many of you would be interested in seeing this... It's one columnist's [Jack McCallum] view about who SI's Sportsman of the Year should be and the name will sound...
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Bob Lazzari On Sports (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The "Unwatchable NBA" Update (yes--sadly, this feature returns, folks): In a game played in Boston last week, the Celtics annihilated the Bobcats 92-59 ; Charlotte was 0-for-10 from 3-point range, had just 10 assists AS A TEAM, and shot a pitiful 52% from the free-throw line on 13-for-25 shooting. Geez, and I used to think that hippopotamuses, slugs, and Chihuahuas were ugly..........TRIVIA...
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Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
I suppose in Russia, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. Shabtai Kalmanovich, the owner of Russian Superleague team Spartak Moscow which has been the home of some of the biggest players in the WNBA in the off-season, might have been assassinated . From the bad translation: The investigation is considering the possibility that Kalmanovich killed in connection with his activities as president...
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Women's Hoops Blog (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
An assassination in Moscow that has basketball connections: Businessman and former spy Shabtai Kalmanovich was murdered. Three last woman Euroleague trophies belong to his team : Spartak Moscow Region. From the December '08 Sports Illustrated article : And then there are Kalmanovic's women. More precisely, there are his female basketball players, the three gemstones of which reside on the southern...
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