The WNBA just days before the start of the 2018 season announced a partnership with six national organizations that primarily work on behalf of girls and women. Its new “Take a Seat, Take a Stand” women and girls empowerment program began last weekend. With each ticket purchased this season, the WNBA will donate $5 to one of the following six groups of the fans’ choosing: … [Read more...]
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Shifting the WNBA season to fall/winter a bad idea
Commissioner’s comments miss the mark Since assuming office in 2014, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver seemingly likes to sow seeds of doubts about the WNBA’s future at inopportune times. Silver has at least twice publicly said troubling things about his league’s female counterparts. The first came at the start of the 2015 playoffs when he said that he felt the W should be … [Read more...]
Cheryl Reeve: Lynx have ‘lots of things’ to improve (audio)
"We have lots of things that we can improve on, " Minnesota Lynx General Manager and Head Coach Cheryl Reeve told Larry Fitzgerald in a recent interview. Click the link below to find out what Coach Reeve said the four-time champs needs to do this season to be successful. … [Read more...]
Being on both sides of the whistle
A seasoned Coach Staley advises new Coach Whalen New Gopher Women’s Basketball Coach Lindsay Whalen said in last week’s “View” that she soon would “reach out” to South Carolina and U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball Coach Dawn Staley. Staley in 2000 became the first WNBA player to take a Division I head coaching job (at Temple) while still an active player. That reach-out … [Read more...]
Whalen named new Gopher coach after ‘whirlwind’ search
Will she be more successful recruiting local Black athletes? I love Lindsay Whalen. I’ve known her since her freshman year at Minnesota and throughout her stellar WNBA career. “You saw this coming?” a local reporter asked yours truly, the longest-tenured Gopher women’s basketball beat reporter, of my thoughts on perhaps the quickest coaching search since LaRue Fields, … [Read more...]