Tuesday, January 26, 2010
State of Women's Basketball
Today I decided to speak from the heart about something that I am passionate about. Where is the state of women's basketball going, where is the positive synergy that once surrounded the women's basketball in 1997 with the beginning of the ABL and WNBA after our women's national team won gold in Atlanta. It seems as we have move forward in time corporations, owners and even the media are losing the point of having female athletes accessible to young girls across the world. Yeah the WNBA is here and has been here since 1997 but is it really influencing lives like it could or is the league constantly getting butchered by media and major corporations because it is not like the men's game. These women do so much for their communities, and the game that goes way beyond any criiticism in which they take for the game they love to play. They touch lives and inspire young girls all around the world. That is what the focus and support should be about. The game has grown so much but still has so much more to go. Will the game of women's basketball get the support it really needs or will it continue to be the other league until young girls will not have women's basketball players to look up to anymore. Now is the time for change
Through out the year I will back up my opinions with statistics and hard facts but I just wanted to stir up conversations.
Through out the year I will back up my opinions with statistics and hard facts but I just wanted to stir up conversations.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Creativity And Self Development
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Creativity And Self Development
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
There Can Only Be One
This season has been full of ups and downs, injuries here and there. There has been one team that has been consistent throughout the year and that is the Phoenix Mercury behind MVP candidate Diana Taurasi. But looming in third place in the west is the unpredictable but dangerous Los Angeles Sparks who have fought back from numerous team injuries and the absence of star Candace Parker at the start of the season pose a serious threat to anyone they face in the playoffs. The eastern conferance is a bit more evenly matched with Indiana, Atlanta, Washington and Detroit the reigning champs who are always dangerous when the playoffs come. The team that will come out of the east will be the one that has a balanced team. The Atlanta Dream with a healthly a Chamique Holdsclaw coming back from injury for the playoffs pose a real problem for anyone in the east with their youth and experience. The playoff should be really exciting I look forward to see who will be actually number 1.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Above The Rim!
A lot of women's basketball players don't get respect for their ability to dunk the basketbal. It was a time that the men's game was played below the rim then times changed. Just like the men's games it takes certain individuals to take their athletic creativity to another level. First is started with Lisa Leslie being the first woman to dunk in the WNBA, then young women in colleges all across America started taking that creative leap. Women like Michelle Snow, Candace Parker, Sylvia Fowels and now we have a young woman by the name of Brittney Griner taking her game to college next year who has taken what those women have done and is changing the game completely. Soon the women's game will be played above the rim because these women are taking their game above the rim and proving to all the critics that soon the women's game will be played above the rim.
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