All posts tagged "geno auriemma"
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Mike Flynn
/ 8 years agoJapan Makes USA Work for the Victory
Rio De Janeiro – Japan lived up to the feisty nature of play and competition it has exhibited during the 2016...
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Dick Weiss
/ 8 years agoTeam USA Cruises past Japan with Huge Second Half
RIO DE JANEIRO — That’s 47 consecutive Olympic victories and counting. The United States’ senior women’s basketball team is the closest...
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Dick Weiss
/ 8 years agoThere is More Than One Dream Team in Women’s Basketball.
RIO DE JANEIRO — There has been a rush to judgment to declare the 2016 Olympic women’s basketball team the best...
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Dick Weiss
/ 8 years agoSue Bird still flying for Team USA at age 35.
RIO DE JANEIRO– Sue Bird is 35-years old now. The former UConn All America point guard and WNBA Seattle Storm star...
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Events
/ 8 years agoThe Expected – Gold
The five-time reigning USA Olympic Women’s Basketball team squares off against Senegal at 11 a.m. for an early Sunday showdown to...
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Wendy Parker
/ 9 years agoUConn Huskies accomplish ‘something that’s never been done before’
INDIANAPOLIS—Indescribable. That’s a word the normally loquacious Geno Auriemma kept using Tuesday night after his UConn Huskies accomplished what his three...
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Wendy Parker
/ 9 years agoFor Stewart and UConn seniors, a farewell title is all that remains
INDIANAPOLIS—The idea of a freshman declaring, from time of her arrival, a desire to win four national championships is a rather audacious...
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Wendy Parker
/ 9 years agoUConn a win away from history in reaching 11th NCAA title game
INDIANAPOLIS—The relentlessness of the Connecticut dynasty is mesmerizing, for spectators and opponents alike. It produces either admiration for what the Huskies...
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Wendy Parker
/ 9 years agoWomen’s Final Four upstarts relish unlikely journeys
INDIANAPOLIS—Jamie Weisner had no good reason to hear out to first-year Oregon State coach Scott Rueck when he made his first...
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Wendy Parker
/ 9 years agoGender and coaching and the road to the Women’s Final Four
Instead of rehashing so many of the points I’ve made about gender and coaching in women’s basketball (see previous posts here,...
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Wendy Parker
/ 9 years agoWomen’s Final Four storylines surpass Shaughnessy fiasco
In a few days many of us will be gathering in Indianapolis for a Women’s Final Four with more compelling...
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Wendy Parker
/ 9 years agoSome opening week upsets amid the rules changes
There’s nothing like a textbook UConn demolition of a Top 10 opponent to strike the familiar pangs of inevitability at the...
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Wendy Parker
/ 10 years agoNCAA: Auriemma’s Little League call a secondary violation
The congratulatory phone call Geno Auriemma made to Little League phenom Mo’Ne Davis apparently is an NCAA violation after all. Multiple...
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Wendy Parker
/ 10 years agoHere we go again: Gender and coaching women’s basketball
I really don’t want to revisit this in June, but a couple of recent, widely-distributed pieces by mainstream media outlets about...
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Wendy Parker
/ 11 years agoNine titles and perfection personified
NASHVILLE — The Connecticut Huskies made another undefeated team look like everyone else they’ve played this season. It took a lockdown...
