Stories By Wendy Parker
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Wendy Parker
/ 11 years ago‘Hopefulness’ and the bubble
DULUTH, Ga. — Hope is a good thing, if you believe the signature line from “The Shawshank Redemption.” But hopefulness is...
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Wendy Parker
/ 11 years agoThe crushing agony of March
DULUTH, Ga. — With only a few hundred other souls in the Gwinnett Arena sat the Arkansas Lady Razorbacks...
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Wendy Parker
/ 11 years agoWesthead won’t return as Oregon coach
This season’s coaching carousel isn’t waiting for conference tournaments to begin. On Tuesday, two days before the Pac 12 tournament starts...
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Wendy Parker
/ 11 years agoIn praise of offense in women’s basketball
Debbie Antonelli notices it when she’s home, and finds it disheartening: Girls who are not playing basketball, but something else. Nothing...
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Wendy Parker
/ 11 years agoA very special night planned in Louisville
The latest word from the University of Louisville athletic department is that 19,000 tickets — around 3,000 short of a sellout...
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Wendy Parker
/ 11 years agoA bittersweet reunion for Louisiana Tech, Old Dominion
In the football-driven world of college athletics, the biggest casualties are often seen in the context of money-making sports alone. It’s...
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Wendy Parker
/ 11 years agoWays of watching the women’s game
Has television been too much of a good thing for women’s college basketball? I ask the question not to provoke, since...
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Wendy Parker
/ 11 years agoRemembering two pioneers of women’s basketball
To understand the impact that Betty Jaynes had on the sport of women’s basketball, there was a brief halftime segment devoted...
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Wendy Parker
/ 11 years agoCan Magic’s touch spark the WNBA?
The basketball statistician Dean Oliver has a phrase for the first-generation WNBA stars he analyzed for the league and the now-defunct...
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Wendy Parker
/ 11 years agoGender and Coaching: The Myth of ‘The Glass Sneaker’
If numbers don’t lie, then two obscure women’s sports advocacy groups and a high-profile female sports columnist have recently laid a...
