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Ladies Court - Women’s Basketball News and Analysis

April 4th, 2008

Candace Parker cleared for Final Four

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She’s good to go, said Tennessee team doctors Thursday.
After suffering a pair of shoulder separations in Tuesday’s regional final game against Texas A&M, Candace Parker has been cleared to play for the Lady Vols in their Final Four matchup against LSU.
“It’s ugly to look at,” […]

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February 21st, 2008

Parker’s coming out

Candace Parker made it official today, she’s forgoing her final year of eligibility to graduate and go pro.
Read more about your future Los Angeles Spark here.
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January 7th, 2008

Another top team goes down

With only one victory necessary to tie the team record for best start ever, the Georgia Lady Bulldogs were bested by Xavier 65-56.
Georgia falls to 13-1, leaving No. 1 UConn and No. 25 Arkansas as the remaining unbeatens in college basketball.
Amber Harris (screaming above) led Xavier with 19 points.
Obviously, Georgia wasn’t pleased with how they […]

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December 31st, 2007

Candace Parker’s Magical Mystery Tour

So based on my reading, it seems that as Candace Parker (oh, and the Lady Vols, too) travel around the country, there always seems to be the story about the woman some say may save the WNBA.
Today’s edition comes from the Chicago Sun-Times.
There’s no shortage of Candace Parker video on YouTube. You can watch footage […]

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December 28th, 2007

Dunker down

Dunker-extraordinaire Sylvia Fowles from LSU is out of commission for the next few weeks following arthroscopic knee surgery.
Fowles was injured during the Tigers win over Miami last week.
“She should be fine,” said Brian Miller, LSU’s associate sports information director. “Once she gets back to full strength, she should be good to go.”
Apparently, […]

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December 26th, 2007

UConn moves to No. 1

After the Lady Vols fell for the first time season — a 73-69 overtime loss to Stanford — the UConn Huskies moved into the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press’ latest poll.
The Huskies received 29 of 31 first-place votes.
Stanford moved to second, Tennessee falls into third, while North Carolina and Maryland round out the […]

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December 17th, 2007

Will this woman save the WNBA?

According to Kurt Streeter of the Los Angeles Times: Yes.
Tags: 2008-Olympics, candace-parker, college-basketball, college-basketball-news, FIBA, lisa-leslie, los-angeles-sparks, Olympics, sec, sports-blogs, tennessee-lady-vols, WNBA, wnba-basketball, womens-basketballShare This

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November 26th, 2007

Will Essence Carson dunk?

Apparently, it is a big deal — and delicious timing.
Rutgers held off LSU and, of course, ESPN has video of the Fowles dunk if you hadn’t seen it already — you can also see where she tried it again and missed.
Well, ESPN’s isn’t sharing their embed code, so I guess you’ll have to go this […]

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November 22nd, 2007

Sylvia Fowles dunks; still a big deal?

LSU senior Sylvia Fowles stole the ball just past half-court, streaked down and didn’t stop for a defender as she became the sixth player in NCAA Women’s Basketball history to dunk the ball during a game.
(Photo Credit: Steve Franz, LSU)
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October 26th, 2007

Shocking nobody, Lady Vols picked to win SEC

Across the nation, groups of media members and sports info directors are voting on their respective pre-season polls. As the headline suggests, the defending NCAA Champion Lady Vols received all but two first-place votes by the SEC media members. LSU finished a distant second.
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