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Mathies Named Finalist for State Farm Wade Trophy
LEXINGTON, Ky. – For the second straight season, University of Kentucky women’s basketball standout A’dia Mathies has been named one of 12 finalists for The State Farm Wade Trophy, as announced by The State Farm Wade Trophy Committee,...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Kentucky Wildcats, Diana Taurasi, National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament
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UK Hoops Signee Named Kentucky Gatorade Player of the Year
Makayla Epps awarded Gatorade Kentucky Girls Basketball Player of the Year LEXINGTON, Ky. – University of Kentucky women's basketball signee Makayla Epps of Marion County High School was named by The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA...Tags: Basketball, American Red Cross, Kentucky Wildcats, Naperville Central High School, Diana Taurasi
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Tribune/WGN-Ch. 9 | Glenbrook South's Olivia Smoliga
The two national high school records Olivia Smoliga set at the girls state swimming meet in November were only three weeks old, but Smoliga wasn't an Illinois high school swimmer anymore. She was at the Short Course World Swimming Championships in...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Track and Field, Swimming, High Schools, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Kansas Athletics Renews Partnership with adidas
Eyewitness SportsKansas Athletics and adidas have agreed to renew their footwear and apparel partnership – one of the largest such partnerships in college athletics - through 2019. This extends by six years the original eight-year agreement between adidas and the...Tags: Bowl Championship Series, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Kansas Jayhawks, College Sports
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Candace Parker primed for MVP year as Sparks open Sunday
Sparks forward Candace Parker feels as though her resume is incomplete. She's won two Olympic gold medals on Team USA, a Euroleague championship with a Russian team, two NCAA titles with Tennessee and nearly every individual accolade that a player can...
Tags: Diana Taurasi, Basketball, Phoenix Mercury, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Women's National Basketball Association
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Notre Dame women's soccer: Andrews honored again
South Bend TribuneFor the second consecutive year, Notre Dame incoming freshman midfielder Morgan Andrews has been selected as the Gatorade National High School Girls Soccer Player of the Year. The Milford, N.H., product is the first soccer player of either gender, as...Tags: Basketball, Soccer, High Schools, High School Sports, Brandon Knight
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Great name, even greater young woman: Elena Delle Donne
Change of SubjectNot only does Chicago Sky draft pick Elena Delle Donne have one of the most fun names to say in all of sports — the final “e” is silent — but she also has one of the most intriguing backstories....... -
NCAA regional extends Norfolk's women's basketball rich tradition
Three decades later, Marianne Stanley still marvels at the event, maybe more now than at the time. When the NCAA awarded Old Dominion and the city of Norfolk the first women's basketball Final Four under its purview in 1982, it did so in part with the...Tags: Old Dominion Monarchs, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Virginia Cavaliers, College Sports
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Jabari Parker named Wootten Player of the Year
Tribune reporterTwo days after helping Simeon win its fourth consecutive Class 4A state title, Jabari Parker added another accomplishment to his long list. The 6-foot-8 Duke-bound forward was named the Morgan Wootten High School Player of the Year at an announcement...Tags: Basketball, Ronald McDonald House Charities, High School Sports, Sports
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Olympic spirit may be fleeting but you can catch it just the same
LONDON — Every now and then Team USA women's basketball assistant coach Doug Bruno watches practice and his mind drifts. Bruno, the longtime DePaul coach, sees U.S. teammates Candace Parker and Tamika Catchings and remembers when the former Ms....Tags: Chicago Cubs, Awards and Prizes, Tamika Catchings, Chicago White Sox, Gymnastics Clubs
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Candace Parker overcomes, including getting past her coach
LONDON — On the floor of North Greenwich Arena late Saturday night after the U.S. women's basketball team blasted France 86-50 in the Olympic final, Candace Parker wrapped 3-year-old daughter, Lailaa, in her arms and kissed the girl on the cheek....Tags: Diana Taurasi, Basketball, Awards and Prizes, Geno Auriemma, Sue Bird
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Postcards from London: What we're looking forward to
Philip Hersh: On a quest for serendipity This is my 16th Olympic Games. It is also the first in which I will see the Olympic Games, rather than be focused on one sport — track and field at the Summer Games, figure skating at the Winter Games. I...
Tags: Olympic Games, Greco Roman, Track and Field, Awards and Prizes, Science and Technology
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Aug 11, 2012
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