As one of my last posts at the LC, I wanted to let you know when you can see Team USA play Click here (courtesy of the Women’s Hoops Blog).
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Jayda Evans of the Seattle Times is blogging from Team USA’s practice sessions. They’re very informative and will last through training camp. Give her some page view love, LadiesCourt fans.
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With the end of Sunday’s games, the WNBA will take its month-long break for the Olympic Games in Beijing.
All teams will be off as a bulk of players prepare for international competition. Some players have already left, but most will join their teams this week to begin practicing for the basketball competition starting the second […]
We’re less than a month away from the Olympic games and thus begins the departure of the world’s best basketballers as they return to their home countries to begin practicing for the Beijing Games. In Seattle, Lauren Jackson left Tuesday. From the Seattle Times:
Jackson and Bird have nearly been inseparable since last fall when they […]
It’s almost over, and while the Becky Hammon saga continues, so does the hypocrisy.
Over the past few weeks, another basketballer has made it known he would be playing for another team rather than his home country. Chris Kaman of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers received his German citizenship and will play for their team in […]
This year’s Olympics (less than two months away now) are going to be much different for the United States, especially when you consider they’re the three-time defending gold medalists. Teams from Australia, Russia and Brazil are thought to be top contenders for Olympic Gold, as well as the Americans, but as Bob Kravitz of the […]
A two-game series is scheduled between Team Australia and Team Brazil a few weeks before the Olympics in August, according to an article in The Age.
“It is a major coup for Australian basketball to have the second and fourth ranked women’s teams in the world playing in the country so close to the Beijing Games,” […]
As if we didn’t already know, Seattle Storm center Lauren Jackson will captain the Australian national team this year in the lead-up to the Olympic games. From AP:
Lauren Jackson will lead a full-strength Australian women’s basketball team on home soil for the first time in eight years next month as the side prepares for the […]
(This is my headline from the column I’m talking about in this post… because that’s what they really wanted to write, it’s just too long).
I wanted to show off this column because it touches on a different aspect of the Becky Hammon-Olympics fiasco. Are people really seeing this Russia as the old-school Soviet Union? Is […]
Set your DVRs for Sunday morning as ESPN’s “Outside The Lines” will profile Becky Hammon’s decision to play for Russia in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
Preview video clip here.
Here’s the full story from ESPN.com: Preview below.
Even though Hammon is not of Russian descent, speaks no Russian and is not a full-time resident, she […]
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