As Tennessee legend Pat Summitt is memorialized, a rivalry is remembered
(I didn't see it, but if this has already been posted, then moderators please delete this post)
At the very end of an article about Ky's junior guard Makayla Epps and her father Anthony Epps (who was point guard on the Ky men's team that won the championship in 1996), there is the kind of acknowledgment that many of us cherish here at the BY:
But Anthony's daughter has already lived...
... at least on the men's side (for now) (and it's football related, again) ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/sports/ncaabasketball/ncaa-mens-tournament-football-imbalance.html
I suspect there are a good number of BY'ers who already knew all that is in this article, but for the rest of us, and for those in need of an overview or a refresher ...
The 75 team directors cast their ballots for the new president of the Argentine soccer federation, and the result was ... a 38-38 tie. Really.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/sports/soccer/fifa-conmebol-corruption-argentina-federation-vote.html
I do not normally pay much attention to the NBA, but I found this story to be worthwhile.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/sports/basketball/in-free-agency-spurs-david-west-sought-meaning-not-money.html
And then there is this close-to-home sentence: "The upshot is that positional labels...
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"UConn women’s basketball team honored with ice cream flavor: Triple-Champion Chunk"
http://www.theday.com/uconn-sports/20150425/uconn-womens-basketball-team-honored-with-ice-cream-flavor-triple-champion-chunk
Nothing left to accomplish now. It can only be downhill from here.
Lots of mention of UConn, though not at the beginning ....
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/25/sports/ncaabasketball/womens-ncaa-tournament-is-no-place-for-underdogs-to-thrive.html
Something to arouse the BY crowd on this day of lull?
Interesting on a bunch of levels...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/sports/basketball/diana-taurasi-focusing-on-playing-in-russia-where-the-money-is.html
... here's how one team with aspirations, orange uniforms, and an un-mourned (by most of us) Final Four drought views its recent past and near future:
http://www.foxsports.com/womens-college-basketball/story/lady-vols-coach-wants-a-stronger-finishing-
touch-072114
Better link below. JS...
... whom I'd never heard of....
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/sports/sarah-patterson-steps-down-as-alabama-womens-gymnastics-coach.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
If anyone knows of more to add, please do.
you don't have to speak the language to appreciate this one (it's short) --
http://www.snotr.com/video/8965
my wife laughed to tears. My daughter was horrified.
Since it's the off-season, I figure others may also like to waste some time with this -- the Yankees vs. Boston, of course (the Munson-Nixon line), but many more, too:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/23/upshot/24-upshot-baseball.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
This article looks into the behind-the-scenes logistics, and some screw-ups.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/sports/ncaabasketball/after-filling-the-brackets-figuring-out-the-charters.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Today, Fox Sports quotes Kim Mulkey as follows:
''I can't tell you how much fun it's been [this 2013-2014 season]. It has been a dream year when it comes to teaching, when you go to work all you have to worry about is X's and O's,'' coach Kim Mulkey said. ''You don't have to deal with grade...
... and it's "extra motivation" ... etc.
http://msn.foxsports.com/womens-college-basketball/story/irish-find-themselves-overshadowed-by-uconn-again-031814
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/22/sports/basketball/novel-league-would-insert-gender-into-the-game.html?pagewanted=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
"In his blueprint, the composition of the teams would change from quarter to quarter: three men and two women, and vice versa. There would be a 4-point shot...
This article about Pink Floyd's song harkens back to some off-season, off-topic Boneyard threads. Not sure what triggered the article, though.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/booming/pink-floyds-comfortably-numb-and-other-takes.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
Is there some special relationship between the Lady Vols WCBB team and Fox Sports and/or the AP? The link below is the third non-news puff piece about the LVs in the last month or so, which is three times as many puff pieces as for any other WCBB team, and perhaps as many as for all those other...
No billboard material herein, but it is interesting that it already seems settled that a freshman will start at point guard for Notre Dame.
http://msn.foxsports.com/wcbk/story/Irish-enter-unfamiliar-ACC-with-familiar-goals-95098284
Cierra Burdick (U. Tenn.): ''I think hands down we have the best frontcourt in the country." As an elite athlete, you have gotta have confidence, but still ....
http://msn.foxsports.com/wcbk/story/Lady-Vols-ready-to-compete-for-championships-again-56362038
Per Bankrate.com...
http://www.bankrate.com/finance/retirement/best-places-retire-how-state-ranks.aspx
For some reason, they don't take into account the quality of the states's WCBB teams.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/sports/ncaabasketball/in-womens-basketball-one-woman-deals-with-loyalty-and-dying-rivalries.html?_r=0
and Jere Longman story on the Schimmels...
Here is Fox Sports on the possibility that ND would beat UConn for a 4th time this year. Not much new except that (1) the article reminds us that UConn had beaten ND by an average of 11 points before losing to them in the NCAA semis in 2011 and (2) the article says that no team has ever beaten...
We're #1, ahead of Baylor ... makes you wonder what this index measures ...
http://msn.foxsports.com/wcbk/story/UPS-Team-Performance-Index-creates-consensus-on-top-four-schools-in-womens-basketball-13157692
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