It’s that time of year again. Classes have begun, the temperature is cooling, and a Terp’s thoughts turn to the Comcast Center and the upcoming women’s basketball season. Every year starts with the desire to win a national championship. Do the Terps have a shot, or is it Uconn/Tennessee/Baylor/Stanford’s to lose?
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Something like soccer’s delayed penalty might be a good idea to stop the strategy of preventing a breakaway score–without incurring a breakaway foul–from becoming common.
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This has been a very strange season for the Western Conference in the WNBA. Most years, you’d be saying that this team was definitely going to the lottery. But this isn’t most years. Los Angeles still has time to make the playoffs. The question is: do they have it in them?
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Perhaps the best part of the WNBA “Stars at the Sun” weekend was WNBA President Donna Orender’s press conference. What made this one notable was that Ms Orender’s smiling, optimistic face gave way to that of a league president bristling over some of the obstacles she’s had to strain against.
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The past couple of years in the WNBA have been interesting in a tummy-flopping way. Players are moving hither and thither at an astonishing rate. Some wonder if this might actually be hurting interest in the league by weakening its brand.
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I’m a WNBA fan. If I have the time and access, I will happily watch a game and enjoy the experience. But there are some players that elevate the experience for me. We all have them. These are the women who we will pay extra attention to, distracting us from the general patterns of team offense and defense
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It’s June 19. After 10-12 games played only one team in the WNBA’s Western Conference has a winning record. ONE. That’s pathetic. So…what the heck is going on in this half of the league, and what can they do to make a better showing?
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An article on knoxnews.com brought back a lot of memories. With former University of Maryland Head Women’s Basketball Coach Chris Weller’s well-deserved induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame this Saturday, the article reflects on how past players, particularly Jasmina Perazic, find that they sound like their college coach.
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I was going to post this along with my early season thoughts, but I held off until after the outdoor game between Los Angeles and Seattle, which Seattle controlled the entire game for the win. With the Sparks now sitting in the cellar, the question isn’t so much can they make the playoffs but more with how they can right the ship.
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It’s the first weekend of June and about a fifth of the WNBA season is done (boy, that was quick). It seems like a good time to offer up some opinions about the season so far. I didn’t do my usual pre-season post simply because with all of the off-season changes, it seemed to be an exercise too fraught with not-enough-information-itis.
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There has been a lot of talk about expanding the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament on the men’s side from 65 to 96 teams. As a result, there is also talk of altering the women’s side of the tournament as well. Some suggestions make more sense than others.
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The University of Connecticut Women’s Basketball team’s record now stands at 74-0 double-digit wins and counting. The amazing thing is that this sort of dominance isn’t unusual for the Huskies. It makes you wonder: factoring the talent, the tactics, the defenses, what’s so special about UConn? The truth is, not that much.
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Yesterday, Maryland suffered its first loss in the season’s first four games. Given that the Terps are playing nine underclassmen on their active 10-player roster, it’s probably best to think of it as a learning exercise.
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I wasn’t planning on posting another blog about how I felt Chicago Sky Head Coach Steve Key utilized (or failed to utilize) rookie Kristi Toliver during the2009 WNBA season. But two things happened:
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It’s that time of year again, when the wheat is separated from the chaff and arbitrary picks need to be made from those golden grains. That’s right, time for the WNBA individual award picks.
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With the 2009 WNBA regular season now concluded, it’s a good time to pause, reflect, and anticipate.
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How to determine winners in multi-team leagues is always difficult. Someone is bound to be irked.
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It’s become clear that the Chicago Sky and Kristi Toliver haven’t exactly had the most ideal of campaigns in 2009. Seems to me like Head Coach and GM Steve Key erred on draft day.
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