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Entire roster shines as U.S. women win basketball exhibition

Entire roster shines as U.S. women win basketball exhibition
In its first tune-up for the 2012 Summer Olympics, the U.S. women's basketball team looked golden, crushing China 100-62 in an exhibition at KeyArena on Saturday night. Favorites to win their fifth straight gold medal in London two months from now, the Americans started slow but showed why they hold a 33-0 Olympic win streak dating back ... Read More...

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The Elements Are In Place to Save the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame

Before Knox County does something rash with the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, let’s get over the anger at departing Knoxville Tourism and Sports Corp. honcho Gloria Ray and have some quick, but quiet, reflection. We sometimes forget we have a national museum in Knoxville. It has been an afterthought semi-run ... Read More...

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Keeling Piraro and the U.S. Women's Olympic basketball team

The case of Keeling Piraro, the boy who is now banned from playing on his high school field hockey team in Long Island because he is a boy and now too good to go against girls in the eyes of the state federation, reminded me of another case involving men vs. women in athletics. I believe it was 1984 and the U.S. Women's Olympic basketball team was working out in San Diego before heading off to "g ... Read More...

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McWilliams-Franklin back to mentor Peters

McWilliams-Franklin back to mentor Peters
Before the 2012 WNBA draft, Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve received an email from one of her players. There were pleasantries, of course, from the Lynx's oldest veteran, but the message was clear. This was not a thank-you for another year on the court or a reassurance that the 41-year-old would be in peak physical ... Read More...

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Madison County’s most decorated basketball player remembers days with coaching legend

Madison County’s most decorated basketball player remembers days with coaching legend
Madison County’s Shelia Collins remembers the day she tore her ACL at the University of Tennessee and coach Pat Summitt broke from her tough-as-nails persona, showing a different side. Collins, who led Madison County to the 1981 state championship, earned numerous accolades as a freshman for Pat Summitt as Tennessee upset the Cheryl Miller ... Read More...

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Natalie Nakase Shooting for NBA

Natalie Nakase Shooting for NBA
She may be relatively short (although most people look that way when surrounded by basketball players) but Natalie Nakase has big ambitions. She wants to be the first female coach in the NBA. The third generation Japanese-American, is getting all the experience she needs as the first (and only) female coach in Japan’s professional men’s basketball league. ... Read More...

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Who's got next? Granny's Got Game

Who
Forty years separated the high school graduations of two girls, each with a competitive spirit and a mind for mechanics. Judy Barton left her little hometown, where she used to walk home from school for lunch, in 1953 for the Big Apple and a job at Western Electric. Back then, the average kid from Ridgefield Park, N.J., went ... Read More...

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Olympics: U.S. coach has golden name in women's basketball

Olympics: U.S. coach has golden name in women
He's a one-named wonder in the women's basketball universe, tantamount to Pele, Magic and Michael in their domains. Geno doesn't need the last part of his name for identifying purposes, but it's Auriemma, for the record. These days, only one thing still pushes him outside his comfort zone. "I have never felt more pressure in my life than ... Read More...