We Need Disambiguation About FIFA World Cup Uniform Stars
It seems that we might need a bit of a clarification on how many stars a men’s or women’s FIFA team can display to show their World Cup victories.
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WNBA 2011 – The July 5 Kristi Toliver Incident
Women’s Basketball isn’t exactly the genteel sport that some portray it as. In the WNBA, elbows fly and sometimes they connect. Such was the case when Los Angeles guard Kristi Toliver and Phoenix guard Ketia Swanier battled for the ball during the run of play of a tight game.
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WNBA 2011 – How Will It Shake Out?
It seems sort of silly, really, to try to figure out end-of-season standings before any real games have been played. So now, with every team having at least two games on the board, it might be a bit easier to make some picks.
Read more...The NBA has become a dunkfest and it’s time to raise the rims (Chicago Sun-Times)
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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WNBA 2011 Preseason at “The Pit”
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...Proposed Changes to Shot Clock and Backcourt Rules for Women’s College Hoops–a Big Step Backwards (Full Court Press)
“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 …
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Finding a Replacement For Flanagan as UNM Women’s Basketball Coach
Following the surprise announcement of University of New Mexico’s Head Women’s Basketball Coach, one of the first questions on everyone’s mind is who will be found to take his place?
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2011 WNBA Pre-Pre-season Thoughts
With the NCAA tournament still in progress, it might be a bit early to be discussing the upcoming WNBA season. Regardless, I have a few notions at the moment that I’d like to put out there.
Read more...Nancy Lieberman: A new ‘next game’ for Hall of Fame basketball player Nancy Lieberman (latimes.com)
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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2010-11 Maryland Women’s Basketball — A Few Tweaks Toward Greatness
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, Please Don’t Marginalize Women’s Basketball
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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2010 FIBA Women’s World Championships – A Headache For WNBA 2012?
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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2010-11 Maryland Women’s Basketball First Thoughts
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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WNBA 2010 – Can the Sparks Make the Playoffs?
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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Some Championship Series Tweaks
Playoffs are interesting things. Ostensibly, they exist so that the best team will eventually prevail. But, all too often, in some playoff schemes teams that are undeserving get in. In others, a lucky score determines the champion. Every year, it seems, some situation arrives that makes me wonder if there might not be a better way.
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WNBA 2010 – All-star Feistiness From Orender
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.
Read more...10 Acts of Good Sportsmanship | Mental Floss
I’ve long been of the opinion that the wins and losses mean less than how those wins and losses were achieved. Ultimately, …
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Should We Tweak the WNBA’s Branding?
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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