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Over the next several days, you’re going to hear and read powerful stories about the late, great Patricia Sue Summitt. Family, friends, former players and coworkers, sportswriters and fans will all be sharing touching, personal moments from the life of the winningest basketball coach in NCAA Division I history. TV stations and online and print publications will remind you about her 1,098 wins, 8 national championships and 7 NCAA Coach of the Year awards. You’ll hear astonishi

Last week the National Pro Fastpitch’s (NPF) Houston-area Scrap Yard Dawgs signed one of the world’s best softball players, Monica Abbott, to a $1,000,000.00 contract.  (I like the look of all the zeroes and wanted you to count them, so I refused to spell it out.)  The NPF expansion team and Abbott signed what is believed to be one of the largest contracts ever paid by an American franchise to a professional female athlete.  When you sit and think about it, it’s a pretty big

It’s rare that fans of women’s college basketball get to experience the madness of tournament time like those who watch the men’s tournament.  Usually, in the NCAA women’s tournament, the higher seed wins; there aren’t too many shocking upsets.  Well this year, the women have started to make up for lost time.  The upsets have come early and often and we’ve loved every minute of it.  It all started when no. 10 seed St. Bonaventure sent no. 7 seed Oklahoma State home in the fir

On February 9th we learned of another Title IX lawsuit against a major institution.  This time a group of unnamed women are alleging the University of Tennessee violated Title IX by creating a “hostile sexual environment” through its established pattern of indifference towards claims that student-athletes engaged in sexual assaults.  A few days later on February 12th, after their win against Vanderbilt, the Lady Volunteers basketball team sat down for a postgame press confere

Did ya know, did ya know that the first round of WNBA draft was yesterday? Indeed it was. Here is the first crop of the WNBA 2015 Rookies: 1) Seattle: Jewell Loyd, Notre Dame 2) Tulsa: Amanda Zahui B., Minnesota 3) Seattle: Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, Connecticut 4) Connecticut: Elizabeth Williams, Duke 5) Chicago: Cheyenne Parker, Middle Tennessee State 6) San Antonio: Dearica Hamby, Wake Forest 7) Los Angeles: Crystal Bradford, Central Michigan 8) Washington: Ally Mallot,

Today in 1982 marked the first ever NCAA Women’s Championship.  Louisiana Tech became the first NCAA Women’s Division I Champions with a win over Cheyney.  The first NCAA Division I tournament had 32 teams.  Tennessee, Louisiana Tech, Cheyney and Maryland met in the Final Four.  Baylor Head Coach, Kim Mulkey, was a member of this Louisiana Tech team, setting her up to become the FIRST person in history to win an NCAA Division I Basketball Championship as a player, assistant c