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Candace Parker primed for MVP year as Sparks open Sunday
Sparks forward Candace Parker feels as though her resume is incomplete. She's won two Olympic gold medals on Team USA, a Euroleague championship with a Russian team, two NCAA titles with Tennessee and nearly every individual accolade that a player can...
Tags: Diana Taurasi, Candace Parker, Basketball, Women's National Basketball Association, Staples Center
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Brittney Griner says Baylor asked her not to reveal she is gay
Former Baylor star Brittney Griner said Sunday that her coach at Baylor, Kim Mulkey, asked her to not be publicly open about being gay out of fear it would hurt recruiting. "It was a recruiting thing," Griner told espnW.com. "The coaches thought that...
Tags: Women's National Basketball Association, Los Angeles Kings
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Brittney Griner acknowledges she's gay, says 'just be who you are'
Ex-Baylor star Brittney Griner likes to remind all the girls and young women who idolize her to just be themselves and not worry what others think. Griner was doing just that this week while discussing her sexual orientation, apparently for the first...
Tags: Sports Illustrated, Women's National Basketball Association, Tracy McGrady
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Brittney Griner, Elena Delle Donne are picked 1-2 in WNBA draft
Baylor's Brittney Griner, Delaware's Elena Delle Donne and Notre Dame's Skylar Diggins were the top three picks in Monday night's WNBA draft. No surprises there, but still plenty of excitement among the players, the teams that selected them and the...
Tags: Diana Taurasi, Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens, Basketball, Chicago Sky, Sports
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Brittney Griner is ready for that NBA tryout after season in WNBA
Brittney Griner, the All-American center for the Baylor women's basketball team, and an NBA tryout: It's the story that won't go away anytime soon. The media won't let it, not at the pinnacle of the college basketball season. This became a story when...
Tags: Geno Auriemma, Basketball, NBA Draft, Sports, College Basketball
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Candace Parker voted to be a starter on All-Star team
The Fabulous ForumSparks forward Candace Parker was voted to be a starter on the Western Conference All-Star team with 19,376 votes, making her the sixth-leading vote getter. Parker will most likely miss the game because of a torn lateral meniscus in her...... -
WNBA: Top 15 players in league history
The Fabulous ForumLisa Leslie, Tina Thompson, Ticha Penicheiro and Teresa Weatherspoon were among the 15 WNBA players selected as the top players in league history by fans, sports writers, current players and coaches. Thompson and Penicheiro currently play for the Sparks,... -
Diggins strives to adjust to multi-tasking in WNBA
On the way to her second Nike event of the day, Tulsa Shock rookie Skylar Diggins was trying to come to grips with how much her job demands away from the court. Her whirlwind orientation to the working class includes meetings with her agency, rapper Jay...
Tags: Big East Conference, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Basketball, Women's National Basketball Association, Sports
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Lynx blow out Mercury
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)MINNEAPOLIS The buildup, inevitably, was on Brittney Griner, the 6-8 rookie center for the Phoenix Mercury who has been anointed as the WNBA's Next Big Thing. (Literally and figuratively). Apparently nobody told Amber Harris. And perhaps the Minnesota...Tags: Minnesota Lynx, Basketball, Target Center , Women's National Basketball Association, Sports
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Chicago Sky to host Food Truck Festival
RedEyeThe Chicago Sky will host a Food Truck Festival before its Sunday game against the Tulsa Shock and former Notre Dame standout Skylar Diggins. A portion of the festival’s proceeds will benefit the Illinois No Kid Hungry Campaign. The food-on-...Tags: Mercury, Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Women's National Basketball Association, Chicago Sky
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Connecticut Sun (1-0) at Chicago Sky (1-0)
Time: 8 p.m. TV: CPTV Sports Notes: Both teams opened the season with big wins. The Sun used 23 points from guard Kara Lawson to defeat the New York Liberty at the Mohegan Sun Arena. Lawson was one of four players in double figures. Tina Charles added...Tags: New York Liberty, Connecticut Sun, Chicago Sky
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2013 WNBA TV schedule
Channel Guide Magazine2013 WNBA TV schedule includes 45 live regular-season games on NBA TV and 14 on ESPN2/ABC, beginning with Indiana at San Antonio on Friday, May 24. 2013 WNBA No. 1 draft pick Brittney Griner and the Phoenix Mercury appear June 8 on ABC and have five...
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