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Baylor's Griner never grows tired of dunking
Mechelle Voepel...to dunk?' I wouldn't say I enjoy it, either, because there is a lot more to basketball than just dunking. But … actually doing it? That never gets old." However, making a fuss over...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2009
Spartak owner's death is big loss for game
Mechelle Voepel...Moscow on Monday will have some kind of effect on the entire world of professional women's basketball. Exactly what that will be is what we'll have to wait to find out. MORE ON...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 03, 2009
Purdue roots run deep at Game 4
Mechelle Voepel...decade has passed since White -- who was a prep legend at Seeger High and was Miss Indiana Basketball in 1995 -- played alongside Douglas and Figgs at Purdue. "We have all kept in touch," White said...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 08, 2009
Time to put supposed head-butt behind us
Mechelle Voepel...to most WNBA players is that they feel the "extra-curricular" physical play that is part of basketball is generally not that big of a deal. And that players pretty much police themselves in that...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 05, 2009
Almost time to bid farewell to L.A. legend Leslie
Mechelle Voepel...is a four-time Olympic gold medalist, and widely regarded as the all-time MVP for USA Basketball on the women's side. She has been part of two WNBA championship teams, won three MVP...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 10, 2009
Super Sparks down depleted Detroit
Mechelle Voepel...L.A. and Detroit last year). Not that you're going to find any "angels" playing pro basketball … you have to be able to mix it up at least a little bit. But stay...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 06, 2009
Loss brings OU questions, but doesn't mean doom
Mechelle VoepelOKLAHOMA CITY -- So, of course, the wisecracks will come. Oklahoma's Courtney Paris said on her senior night that she would pay back her scholarship m...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 14, 2009
Duke-Maryland makes for can't-miss ACC final
Mechelle Voepel...pretty much how we hoops junkies have felt about the "Big Three" matchups in ACC women's basketball these past several years: Maryland vs. Duke, Maryland vs. North Carolina, Duke vs. North Carolina. The three...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 08, 2009
Change does Texas good in trip to Ames
Mechelle Voepel...State, a grad assistant fresh out of college. It was such a different time in women's basketball, but especially different at a place like Iowa State. The arena that was rocking with 12,242...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 15, 2009
Will the real No. 2 please stand up?
Mechelle Voepel...program conveys such a sense of importance to games that even fans who rarely watch women's basketball are totally tuned into it. Surely, there were people who came out to see Auburn on Sunday...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 25, 2009
Tempering expectations for Holdsclaw's return
Mechelle VoepelIn her pro career, Chamique Holdsclaw has been one of the more complicated people in women's basketball to write about. So it's with caution that we approach the announcement that she's apparently...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 18, 2008
From Game 1 to 1,000: Yow's journey quite a climb
Mechelle Voepel...coaching her first college game. When Yow graduated from East Carolina University in 1964, women's college basketball as we know it did not exist. She had earned a degree in English, and for all...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 16, 2008
No beach, but Marquette's a holiday hot spot, too
Mechelle Voepel...Thanksgiving hoops event, as teams hope to add some warm weather and R&R to the actual basketball over the holiday weekend. But Marquette? "You're saying 40 degrees isn't warm?" Golden Eagles coach...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 26, 2008
Missing school never felt so right
Mechelle Voepel...the importance of education, mind you … but a day you are allowed to ditch class for basketball is a great day, right? I would imagine elementary-school kids now are no different than I...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 18, 2008
A nod to some Texas-sized upsets
Mechelle VoepelCall it a "don't mess with Texas" kind of opening weekend in women's basketball. After unranked TCU got the upset train rolling Friday night, beating No. 5 Maryland, on Sunday No...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 16, 2008
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