Focus on Fussell, Simmons
Texas freshman Chassidy Fussell talks about the scoring load she has shouldered and adjusting to living in Austin after growing up in Tennessee. …
Baylor enjoying life at the top
Baylor coach Kim Mulkey spoke last week during a Big 12 teleconference about how well her team seems to be handling life at the top. "I don't think…
Top seeds obvious; focus still on Big 12
Monday's top-25 results -- Duke's loss to North Carolina and Tennessee's victory over Kentucky -- helped make the picture pretty clear as to which tea…
UCLA simply no match for Stanford
Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer is in this somewhat odd position a lot: talking up teams that her squad has every intention of going out and beating ha…
Guard play leads Iowa past Ohio State
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- We're already anticipating a headache near the end of the Big Ten season when it comes down to figuring out tiebreakers. Because …
Maya Moore so much more than a scorer
The most gifted athletes make difficult things look mundane but at the same time, they often look spectacular doing mundane things. So observer…
Hoyas pull off biggest tourney upset
½If you have observed the various Thanksgiving hoops tournaments over the years, you know one thing for sure about them: You can never really tel…
Questions abound as Blaze leaves Liberty
This truth is self-evident: We ought to be just as surprised when not-very-well-explained things happen with the New York Liberty as we are when cats …
Sue Bird deserved first-team honor
SEATTLE -- As you might expect, Seattle's Sue Bird shrugged good-naturedly at the news that she wasn't on the all-WNBA first team. That, however, w…
Pierson a big plus for Liberty
A year ago, Indiana had the biggest breakthrough in the franchise's history when the Fever at last bested the Detroit Shock in the postseason and made…