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Archives for December 2009
Oregon basketball: It’s showtime
Forget that it's Eugene. Ask any Oregon Ducks fan where they'd like to be today and the quick response is Pasadena, Calif. for Friday's Rose Bowl. Only the women's basketball team has to ignore the biggest game for their school and focus on the Pac-10 opener against Washington, which is the … [Read more...]
Top Atlanta Dream Moments of 2009
Women Talk Sports has asked its members to come up with the +ACI-Best of '09+ACI, the best moments in women's sports in 2009. I've had some difficulty in completing this example for two reasons:1) Real life. Normally, real life isn't something to be condemned. We all want as much of a real life as … [Read more...]
Stanford vs. Fresno State
With R away, C will play, and she completely forgot Stanford was playing last night and did not watch GameTracker. She hopes the basketball gods forgive her+ACE (Be easy on C, her son just passed his driving test and is out on the roads alone, with his sister's credit card, no less, and C's skinny cat, … [Read more...]
2009 Salute to Women in Sports
Other WomenTalkSports posts of +ACI-Best of '09+ACI:From Because I Played Sports, Best of '09: Forming a community, WomenTalkSports.comFrom One Sport Voice, The +ACI-Best+ACI of 2009 and the State of Girls +ACY Women in Sports From WakeGirls.com, Best of '09 - A Year for Women in WakeFrom Nobody Puts Robin in a … [Read more...]
Night Snowshoeing in the Keweenaw
Some of our good friends, T and D, came to town post-Christmas to enjoy the Keweenaw and have a bit of a vacation. Baberaham and I convinced them to join us on an evening snowshoe hike to explore Hungarian Falls in Tamarack City during the full moon. I thought this would be a great time to try out … [Read more...]
New Year’s Weekend 2010 Television Schedule
Top Four Historic Moments in Women’s Boxing 2009
Christy Martin celebrates win +ACM-49 I only began blogging women's boxing news midway through this year, but what a year it has been. In addition to seeing my first women's fights on-site, online, and via pay-per-view, I've learned a tremendous amount about the undisciplined proliferation of boxing's … [Read more...]
Allez Les Bleus/Cherchez Les Femmes: A Cool Interview with Lilian Thuram
Check out this interview with Lilian Thuram, conducted by Pierce Freelon via Blackademics. I stumbled onto this exploring the website generated by Professor Lauren Dubois's course on World Cup politics. Amazingly, Thurham was in residence at Duke as a part of this course. … [Read more...]
Basketball Book Club
With R on vacation, C has plenty of time on her hands, so one of the things she is doing is reading one of the Pat Summit books she got R for Christmas. (Shameless in her gift giving-like Homer Simpson giving Marge a birthday present of a bowling bowl engraved with +ACI-Homer+ACI on it. +ACI-Gee Honey, you … [Read more...]