Archive for the ‘Basketball’ Category
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
By Ashleigh Sargent
One foot might not seem like a major difference – unless it’s on a basketball court. And unless it’s the three-point line you’re talking about.
Last year, the NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel decided to move the traditional women’s three-point arc before the start of the season. In a (literal) ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2012
By Ashleigh Sargent and Mariah Philips
Notre Dame: The Fighting Irish took down perennial powerhouse UConn in overtime to advance to the National Championship for the second year in a row. Behind the leadership of Skylar Diggins, who finished the night with 19 points, Notre Dame forced the game into overtime ...
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
By Laura Pappano
Sports are political. This year’s March Madness tournament has made that point even more clearly than usual as President Barack Obama’s campaign announced the “Obama Bracket Challenge:” Out pick the President and your name appears on the campaign website.
While initial reports suggested a catch -- that the contest only applied to ...
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
By Laura Pappano
This is a year of Title IX anniversary celebrations – it became law in 1972 – but even as conferences are convened (I was part of a terrific panel at Wellesley College on Monday), let’s not get weepy.
It was not as if a switch flipped and everything changed.
There ...
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
By Ashleigh Sargent
In between soufflé and sauce instruction, there's time for athletics. Yes, they do more than cook at the Culinary Institute of America. Since 2004, they've played intercollegiate sports (though no scholarship athletes here). And, unlike most college basketball teams, the CIA Steels are co-ed, thanks to the addition ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
By Ashleigh Sargent
The 2011-2012 NCAA basketball season has just kicked off, which means thousands of women are making their debut at the college level.
Even the most talented recruits, however, need more than raw skill to make an impact.
College presents new obstacles: increased intensity, expectations, and pace. Players must figure out ...
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
The Playbook: Year 3
An occasional series about University of Rhode Island Women's Basketball Head Coach Cathy Inglese and her quest to turn around a program.
By Laura Pappano
The URI Women’s Basketball team opens the season Friday at the University of Delaware and enters Year Three of the Inglese Era squarely in ...
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Monday, October 24th, 2011
By Ashleigh Sargent
Think of it as one step – literally a 12” stride – toward gender equity. This year for the first time, women and men will shoot from the same 20’9” three-point line.
The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel decided to move the women’s three-point arc from 19’9” after tracking ...
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
By Susan McGee Bailey
The U.S. Supreme Court last week remained silent in the case of a Texas cheerleader, but the message was alarmingly loud: It may be 2011, but high school girls don’t have the same rights as high school guys.
The Court declined to hear an appeal from a Texas ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
By Ashleigh Sargent
What a week of hoops! As a college player and fan, my observations about the tournament mixed strong emotions (one of the stars of women’s basketball ends her college career with a 72-63 loss) with excitement for the way the final game unfolded. It is meaningful to see ...
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