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"The Stat Movement Goes Establishment": What advantages might stats bring WNBA teams?
As Kevin Pelton of Basketball Prospectus and the Seattle Storm wrote citing Dean Oliver in his summary of the 2010 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference this past weekend, "Individuals see a basketball g...
NY Liberty Off-Season Breakdown: "Who Can't Get Excited About a Second Year for Vaughn?"
Swish Appeal has had the good fortune of speaking to three important members of the Liberty organization over the past two weeks: President and General Manager Carol Blazejowski, coach Anne Donovan,...
Blazejowski On Liberty's 2009 Performance: "Underachieving and disappointing."
Swish Appeal has had the good fortune of speaking to three important members of the Liberty organization over the past two weeks: President and General Manager Carol Blazejowski, coach Anne Donovan, a...
Liberty's Anne Donovan on Coaching Opportunities: "I've had some women that have stepped to the plate"
Since basketball legend Nancy Lieberman was hired as coach of the NBA D-League's Dallas affiliate, there has been talk about the "woman-coaches-a-mens'-pro-team angle" that will only increase once she...
McCoughtry, Powell Ready for Haier Shooting Stars: Spreading a Message or Just "Ballers"?
New York Liberty forward Nicole Powell has a message for Team Sacramento teammate Chris Webber (via WNBA.com) L.A. Times columnist and Truthdig contributor Mark Heisler said that the NBA All-...
WNBA Addresses Mercury Pre-season Game In Korea
Early this week there was a report in The Korean Times that said a deal would soon be in place that sent the Championship Phoenix Mercury to Korea to play an exhibition game. Here's the report: WKBL ...
Women's Sports Round Table on Marion Jones: "If she can perform, why not give her a shot?"
"Come on Marion, are you freaking serious?"That reaction on yesterday’s Women’s Sports Roundtable online radio show is pretty much representative of the public reaction to the news that fo...
Around the Web: Could We See a Woman in the NBA Within the Next Decade?
After my earlier post today, I was asked by someone what I thought of the idea of women playing in the NBA. To begin with, as Ian Thomsen described in his original SI article, the very premise that NB...
WNBA Coming to Bay Area: Golden State Monarchs, Bay Area Monarchs, San Jose Monarchs... something like that
[www.wnba.com/monarchs] Our sister WNBA and Women's NCAA blog Swish Appeal has the 411 and more: First Thoughts on a WNBA Relocation to Oakland from a Bay Area Native The Sacramento...
Interview with Lisa Leslie (Part 2): WNBA Media Coverage, Womanhood, and Empowerment
Swish Appeal was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to have an interview with Lisa Leslie on Monday afternoon. Topics ranged from her work spreading liver cancer awareness to media coverage of th...
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