Archive: June, 2009
Mel Greenberg, Inquirer Sports Columnist
By Mel Greenberg
PHILADELPHIA-NEW YORK- KNOXVILLE - Ok everybody. If the Guru figured his way through the platform there are three new posts in correct order - this one for your entertainment and two more seriously written ones just underneath involving the Honda awards dinner in New York and the Dawn Staley Foundation annual event in Philadelphia (yes, she still comes home).
The triple dateline referes to some of the places the Guru has been, although the month started with a trip to the Jersey shore for the ECAC-Sida convention in Avalon followed by the wedding of his younger niece Allison Swartz, (one of the Guru's escorts with her sister Neena two years ago at the WBHOF induction), to Aaron Greenfield. The couple are still in Italy, it is believed, since no one in the family has reported a return to stateside.
Mel Greenberg, Inquirer Sports Columnist
By Mel Greenberg
NEW YORK - Drexel senior Nicole Hester did not win the Honda Collegiate Women's Sports Award for basketball that went to former Connecticut star Renee Montgomery, who is now a rookie with the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx.
Mel Greenberg, Inquirer Sports Columnist
By Mel Greenberg
PHILADELPHIA _ In many situations, the reach of women's basketball stretches far beyond the court strategies, the summer WNBA competition, and the winter race for the NCAA championships.
The Guru attended four separate events to date this month and all had roots in basketball but note was taken of how much the sport and life beyond the hardwood interact.
Mel Greenberg, Inquirer Sports Columnist
By Mel Greenberg
Detroit Shock coach Bill Laimbeer, coach of the WNBA defending champions, is leaving the team after leading the bunch from the Motor City to three league titles, and will be replaced by assistant Rick Mahorn, according to a source familiar with the move.
The team will make the announcement early Monday afternoon.
Mel Greenberg, Inquirer Sports Columnist
By Mel Greenberg
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Greetings from the land of the Vols where apparently the sun still comes up in spite of how the season ended for Pat Summitt and her charges in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
The Guru actually made the drive for the first time in history down here for the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame induction ceremony in a few hours. All the highlights will be here at some point in the ensuing hours.
Mel Greenberg, Inquirer Sports Columnist
(Guru's Note: Following coverage early last week of Elena Delle Donne's decision to return to basketball, the Guru spent a few days in Avalon, N.J., at the ECAC-SIDA convention, Then it was on to family lockdown for niece Allison Swartz's wedding Saturday night to Aaron Greenfield. Thus, no WNBA advances for the start of the season opener. However, with all decks cleared, the ball is picked up and the Guru took a quick trip up to Gothan for the Liberty opening game.)
By Mel Greenberg
NEW YORK - Using the advice of that old song from yesteryear the Connecticut Sun took Manhattan Sunday in several ways.
Mel Greenberg, Inquirer Sports Columnist
(Guru’s analysis)
By Mel Greenberg
The presence of former Delaware United States senator Joe Biden as the nation’s vice president wasn’t enough to prevent the Wilmington area from losing an auto plant on Monday in the wake of General Motors’ filing for bankruptcy.
By Jonathan Tannenwald
Philly.com
Hey folks,
Mel just called me with the breaking news that former star Connecticut recruit Elena Delle Donne, now at Delaware, will announce today that she will join the Blue Hens' women's basketball team for this coming season.
Click here for Mel's list of All-Decade players from Philadelphia-area schools.
Other contributors
Jonathan Tannenwald is a producer with Philly.com. In addition to covering the local college scene, he spent two years as the Washington Mystics beat writer for Women's Hoops Guru. He also writes his own blog, Soft Pretzel Logic, which covers men's college basketball, football, and other sports.Kathleen Radebaugh is a recent graduate of St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. She covered women's basketball for the school's newspaper, The Hawk, and served as sports editor her sophomore year. She was also a four-year member of the varsity crew team.
Erin Semagin Damio covers the University of Connecticut and the WNBA's Connecticut Sun for the blog, and contributes other features. The Storrs, Conn., native also attends Northeastern University, where she is a coxswain on the varsity crew team.
Acacia O'Connor is based in Washington, D.C., where she reports on the Mystics and the college basketball scene in the nation's capital. A graduate of Vassar college, she played on the varsity women's basketball team and was editor of the student newspaper.
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