Time was that male athletes weren’t surrounded by entourages and they gave their autographs for free. Time was. One of the things I love about women’s sports is that time still is, as demonstrated by another article by the doesn’t-get-praised-enough Mechelle Voepel
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The start of 2014 brought surprising news to the WNBA: WNBA president Laurel Richie announced that that family-owned company controlling the Los …
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As the 2013 WNBA regular season winds up, I feel a need to suggest a few changes the WNBA might consider for …
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UConn Women’s Basketball Coach Geno Auriemma has suggested that offensive deficiencies are keeping the women’s game from growing. His solution? Lower the rims to nine feet. I have to applaud him for making one of the dumbest practical suggestions in years from someone who’s listened to.
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In the National Semi-finals of the 2012 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament, I don’t think anyone was particularly happy about the refereeing. No one will say so explicitly lest they be sanctioned by the NCAA (fines for participants, access for press) but the whistle-holders were conspicuous in their inconsistency. There needs to be some reform.
Read more...“[Women’s basketball players] play the game the way we played it in the ’80s,” [USC Coach Michael] Cooper said. “It takes all …
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Referees in the WNBA will blow their whistle for a violation of the 8-second backcourt rule when they see the 24-second shot clock hit 16. It seems logical. After all, 24-8 = 16. But that’s wrong in this context.
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When you can’t go to a game, you have to find it on some channel or on the Internet. The WNBA continues to work at bringing its games to fans across the country and the globe. They’ve done well, but they could do better.
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You’ve seen it in just about every sporting event on TV: the Play of the Game. Usually it’s the “[insert sponsor name] Play of the Game”. Fundamentally, it’s a nice, potentially inoffensive diversion to offer up the fans. A defining moment of the event. Or is it?
Read more...I’ve been saying this for years. I also wouldn’t mind the court being also proportionally enlarged. Watch old NBA stuff from the …
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I’ve just returned from watching the Los Angeles Sparks defeat the Phoenix Mercury 83-72 in a preseason game held at University Arena (aka “The Pit”) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A few thoughts:
Read more...“Maybe it makes sense to add the 10-second count to the women’s game, though I’m not really convinced, but going to a …
Read more...Going back to the 1976 Olympics, I’ve come to expect that Nancy can do anything she wants to do. Men’s basketball is …
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The Maryland women’s basketball team has a youthful core that is very reminiscent of the 2005-06 championship team. They still have some tweaking, though, to reach that level–sometimes they look like a very young team. Fortunately, these adjustments are few and mostly “easily” done.
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FIBA’s women’s basketball conference has decided it wants to test the option of lowering the height of the rim for women’s basketball. I can’t help thinking that making that change would be a bad idea.
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What effect will Australian and Russia not medaling in the 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women have on the WNBA when it’s an Olympic year?
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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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