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StevenHW
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Queenie
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Posted: 06/11/15 9:49 pm ::: |
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Pretty sure that's Sancho Lyttle with DeMya's hands on her.
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SueFavor
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Posted: 06/11/15 11:07 pm ::: |
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All the WNBA #1 Draft Picks through 2014!
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Awesome!
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tfan
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pilight
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StevenHW
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Posted: 06/18/15 10:58 pm ::: |
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StevenHW wrote: |
Latasha Byears (Houston Comets #7), Penny Taylor (#13), and Tangela Smith (on the right).
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Excuse me??
#7 on the Houston Comets was no one other than Tina Thompson.
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Luuuc #NATC
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jammerbirdi
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Posted: 06/25/15 8:45 pm ::: |
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One of my favorite shots I've ever taken. Leslie on the bench during a game in her last season. It just all shows on her face in this image. Cameras are funny things.
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StevenHW
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Posted: 07/23/15 5:30 pm ::: |
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<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0YBTCDq82As" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
This is Spot, mascot of the Portland Fire, doing a parody of the old Nike Rhythm commercials.
Jon Cudo, who was Spot the Fire Dog, has been Moondog for the Cleveland Cavaliers since 2003.
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StevenHW
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Posted: 08/06/15 1:41 pm ::: |
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Literally missing for years, I just found a printed version of this piece going through old papers. It's not that old, 2009, but it was in there with the really old stuff somehow. Anyway. Another of my personal favs. I will forever be scratching my head that the WNBA didn't pull more of these stunts. My offering for Throwback Thursday!!!
Women 102, Haters Zero
It was a half-hearted, almost tongue-in-cheek effort in terms of promotion, which was to be expected. The WNBA is, after all, an actual professional sports league, still closely attached to the NBA, heretofore stodgy, respectable in its own eyes, with scores of co-owners, investors and sponsors, many of whom would likely not be amused by an embarrassing and desperate marketing spectacle.
Too bad.
So there was no setting of the table of expectations with a media blitz brought to you by charismatic figures like Bobby Riggs. And, unlike the nationwide anticipation and exploitive spectacle that preceded American sports first modern Battle of the Sexes, even devoted followers of womens basketball seemed to be caught off guard by the last-minute announcement of the game on the leagues normally staid and altogether corporate-careful website.
The contest was clearly there on the WNBA preseason schedule, but that pretty much was the extent of the promotion prior to game day.
The facts are pretty straightforward. The WNBAs Chicago Sky, a team that finished last season with 12 wins and 22 losses, a team that only 25% of the leagues GMs pick to even make the playoffs in 2009, was matched against the E-League All-Stars, a not-ready-for-primetime collection of singers, rappers, actors, comedians, all hailing from a basketball league made up of entertainers with real athletic skills and prowess where, it is said, real basketball is played in real games in a real league by, you guessed it, real men most in their 20s and 30s and decades younger than Bobby Riggs was when he met his match back in 1973._________________ Every woman who has ever been presented with a career/sex quid pro quo in the entertainment industry should come forward and simply say, “Me, too.” - jammer The New York Times 10/10/17 |
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