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Source: www.moreover.com --- 15 days ago
Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Lynx acquired former No. 1 overall Draft pick LaToya Thomas from the Detroit Shock on Sunday in exchange for Shay Murphy, giving the Lynx three former top picks on their roster. Thomas was the No. ... Press Pass includes WNBA and former Tennessee star Candace Parker in 2008 basketball Draft picks set
Source: blogs.orlandosentinel.com --- 9 days ago
When collectors rip into packs of 2008 Press Pass Basketball cards this year, they may find something different among the cards of top college Draft picks -- an autographed card of Tennessee women's basketball star Candace Parker. ... Source: legionsofthemiserable.threestrikesandout.com --- 19 days ago
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With the Los Angeles Lakers 3,000 miles away in Boston to start the NBA finals, Staples Center's star tenants won't be back in town until Tuesday. In the meantime, another potential star is ready to move in. Candace Parker, the WNBA's No. 1 overall Draft pick just two months ago, will make her home debut Friday night when her Los Angeles Sparks take on the defending champion Phoenix Mercury for the... ... Source: sports.yahoo.com --- 32 days ago
After consecutive 10-24 seasons and three straight years without a playoff appearance, it was clear that the Minnesota Lynx needed help in this year's WNBA Draft. Less than two months later, it's already clear they got it. The league's lone remaining unbeaten team will look to extend its franchise-best start Friday when Minnesota visits the Connecticut Sun. ... Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 11 days ago
JaVale McGee is able to dunk a basketball. (Brad Horn/AP photo from the 2008 CBI.) A few quick words about Nevada's JaVale McGee a 6-11 or 7-foot forward/center whom the Wiz just took at No. 18 in the first round. * His mom, Pam McGee, played two years in the WNBA, making the McGees the first WNBA-NBA family. She also won two NCAA national championships, played professionally in Spain, Italy and Brazil and won gold in the 1984 Olympics, while dad George was a second-round Portland Draft pick in 1985, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal and the Chicago Sun-Times. * His mom wrote up his MyNBADraft.com profile. * She also resigned as girls' basketball coach at Sacramento High after one season to help her son transition to the NBA; "Some opposing coaches said she ran up scores and others objected to her sideline personality," the Sacramento Bee reported last ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 35 days ago
In reigning WNBA MVP Lauren Jackson and perennial All-Star Sue Bird, the Seattle Storm already had a pair of former No. 1 overall Draft picks leading their team. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 35 days ago
Los Angeles Sparks rookie forward Candace Parker grew up in the Chicago suburb of Naperville before starring at Tennessee and getting selected with the first overall pick in Aprils WNBA Draft. ... Source: www.nba.com --- 13 hours ago
In the INDIANAPOLIS STAR, Kristen Leigh Porter writes "need proof of the parity among the WNBA's 14 teams? The four top teams in the league have each lost six games. That includes the star-studded Los Angeles Sparks squad picked to win the title in a preseason poll of WNBA general managers, along with Connecticut, Detroit and San Antonio. One team has seven losses, and the Indiana Fever (9-8) are among two with eight. Now that's balance. That's something I realized early on, that this was going to be the strongest -- from top to bottom -- league that we've ever had,' Fever coach Lin Dunn said. (With) the infusion from this Draft and the last couple of drafts, these players have gotten better. I think it's really good for the league.'" ... Source: rutgers.rivals.com --- 37 days ago
It wasn't too long ago that Essence Carson was leading Rutgers into the elite eight of the NCAA women's basketball tournament. Since the time that the madness of March came to an end, Carson was selected with the seventh overall pick in the WNBA Draft and has recently begun her professional basketball career. Carson's new home with the New York Liberty is only a short drive from her old stomping grounds in Piscataway ... Source: www.suntimes.com --- 35 days ago
It's No. 1 vs. No. 2. The WNBA's top two Draft picks finally are going head-to-head tonight, when the Los Angeles Sparks and No. 1 selection Candace Parker face the Sky and No. 2 pick Sylvia Fowles at the Pavilion. ... Source: deadspin.com --- 12 days ago
What to watch while Chris Hansen asks you to sit down so that he can write you a check ... • Boxing: Junior welterweights, Anthony Peterson vs. Fernando Trejo; super welterweights, Vanes Martirosyan vs. Angel Hernandez, in Las Vegas (9 p.m., ET). Hey, I was going to name my kid Vanes. [Versus] • 2008 NBA Draft: at Madison Square Garden in New York City (7:30 p.m., ET). With the first pick in the NBA Draft ... Ahh! Bees! [ESPN] • Soccer: MLS, Dallas at Houston (9 p.m., ET). So, Rangers at Astros, or this? Your call, Houstonites. [ESPN2] • WNBA: Fever vs. Liberty (7 p.m., ET). They're dunking now, you know. [ESPN2] ... Source: www.kentucky.com --- 31 days ago
The scene was set for a dazzling Hollywood premiere, but the Phoenix Mercury didn't want to play their part. Diana Taurasi scored 13 of her 29 points in the fourth quarter, Cappie Pondexter scored 28 and the Mercury spoiled rookie Candace Parker's Los Angeles debut and the Sparks' home opener with an 85-79 win Friday night. The defending WNBA champion Mercury (2-4) overcame an 18-point fourth-quarter deficit and avenged a season-opening loss to the Sparks (4-2) in which Parker scored 34 in her WNBA debut on the day of the Mercury's ring ceremony. "It felt great," said Pondexter, the league's leading scorer. "We showed what our team is all about today. It looked like it was over in the third quarter and L.A. got a little lax. We came out focused and intent." Parker, who the Sparks selected with the first overall pick in the WNBA Draft the morning after she led Tennessee to its second straight national title, had 19 points and 14 rebounds in this game. ... Source: blogs.courant.com --- 37 days ago
Former UConn All-Americans and WNBA all-stars Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird are expected to be among the first nine players named to the 2008 women's Olympic basketball team Saturday. USA Basketball is holding a press conference tomorrow afternoon to announce the names of nine of the 12 players who will defend the gold medal the United States has won three straight times since 1996. Bird and Taurasi were members of the 2004 gold medalists in Athens . Also expected to be named are WNBA rookie centers Candace Parker and Sylvia Fowles, the top two picks in the 2008 Draft. Connecticut Sun coach Mike Thibault will be an assistant on head coach Anne Donovan 's staff. The remainder of the team will be named in a few months. John Search News: Diana Taurasi Search the Web ... Source: www.kentucky.com --- 15 days ago
Candace Parker of Tennessee has won the Honda-Broderick Cup, given to the nation's top female college athlete. Parker led the Lady Vols to their second consecutive NCAA title in April. She was the No. 1 pick in the WNBA Draft by the Los Angeles Sparks. Parker received the award at Columbia University. Minnesota-Duluth volleyball player Vicky Braegelmann and Willamette cross-country star Sarah Zerzan were selected as athletes of the year in Division II and III. The Women's Sports Foundation was honored on the 36th anniversary of Title IX, which bans discrimination in education and sports. ... Source: www.kansas.com --- 12 days ago
Sport Time Event TV Radio Baseball 1 p.m. Inter: Orioles at Cubs WGN Basketball 6 p.m. WNBA: Indiana at New York ESPN2 6:30 p.m. NBA Draft ESPN Boxing 8 p.m. Jr. Welter: Peterson vs. Trejo VERSUS Golf 8:30 a.m. European: French Open GOLF 11 a.m. U.S. Women's Open ESPN 2 p.m. PGA: Buick Open GOLF 5:30 p.m. Nationwide: Wayne Gretzky Classic GOLF Soccer 1:30 p.m. Euro 2008 semifinal: ESPN Russia vs. Spain 8 p.m. MLS: Dallas at Houston ESPN2 Tennis 6 a.m. Wimbledon ESPN2 Talk shows 6 a.m. The Game Plan 1410-AM 9 a.m. Sports Daily 1240-AM, 98.7-FM ...
Source: www.kansas.com --- 9 days ago
Unlike five of his former Kansas teammates, point guard Russell Robinson wasn't taken in last week's NBA Draft. But Robinson has at least cracked the door with the NBA after accepting an invitation to play for the Houston Rockets' summer-league team. "You have to take your opportunities where you can," said Robinson, who worked out twice for the Rockets in recent weeks. "If this doesn't work out, I still have some possibilities in Europe. But I'm going to work hard to make this work." Missouri coach Mike Anderson has agreed to release junior guard Keon Lawrence from his scholarship. Lawrence averaged more than 29 minutes in 2007-08 and was third on the team with 11 points per game. Matee Ajavon scored a season-high 24 points in host Houston's 75-61 victory over Indiana.... Host San Antonio capitalized on Seimone Augustus' absence to beat Minnesota 73-65 in a WNBA game. Augustus (sprained toe) missed her first game after 82 straight starts.... In Chicago, Candice Dupree scored 18 points as Chicago snapped a five-game losing streak with a 76-59 victory over Detroit. BOXING ... Source: www.king5.com --- 15 days ago
The Seattle Storm will send their second-round pick in the 2009 WNBA Draft to the Atlanta Dream in exchange for 6-2 forward Camille Little. ... Source: www.kansas.com --- 27 days ago
Wichita State third baseman Conor Gillaspie was named a second-team All-America selection by Rivals.com and Ping Baseball. Pitcher Anthony Capra was a third-team selection by Ping. Gillaspie, center fielder Andy Dirks and pitcher Rob Musgrave were named to the American Baseball Coaches Association All-Region team. Capra and pitcher Anthony Shafer were named to the second team. BASKETBALL UCLA's Josh Shipp has withdrawn from the NBA Draft and will return to the Bruins for his senior season. The guard declared himself eligible in April on the final day underclassmen could enter the Draft, but did not hire an agent, which allowed him to back out under NCAA rules. Lindsay Whalen made another successful return to her home state, scoring 14 points to help the visiting Connecticut Sun beat the Minnesota Lynx 75-66 Tuesday night in the WNBA. ... Find more search results for WNBA Draft on RSSMicro.com |
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Filed under: Women's Sports , Beijing , Attractive Olympians O lympic athletes often don't get paid to do anything other than look good. In that vein, Attractive Olympians handicaps which athletes may rake in endorsement deals after the Olympics. Becky Hammon just wants to be an Olympian -- so badly that she'll use her dual citizenship this summer as a member of the Russian national team, an act that has led some to call her a traitor . Quick history: Despite being an All-America at Colorado State, Becky Hammon was shunned at the 1999 WNBA Draft. She joined the New York Liberty as a free agent, where she had an immediate impact off the bench but spent four years backing up Teresa Weatherspoon. After a breakout season in 2003, she was left off the Athens squad in 2004. In 2007, she was the runner-up in the WNBA MVP vote, yet her invitation to try out for the 2008 U.S. Olympic team was less than sincere. Personally, if I'd been snubbed by one country that much, I might consider going where I felt appreciated, too -- her Russian club, CSKA Moscow, pays her in the seven figures, and she was a lock for the Olympic team there. But let's take a step back from the politics involved and ask something more superficial: how does this dilemma affect her sex appeal? Will this affect her potential sponsorships? Might Americans actually cheer for a Russian team? Is "Becky" an acceptable Russian name? None of these answers -- and more! -- after ...