Recent content by azfan

I'm loving the preseason build-up and excitement for women's basketball this college season. Like my fellow BYers I'm basking in Hope springs eternal. I CAN'T wait for November 3 when all three teams open play! Arizona State University I'll be in the stands for the opener at home on November...

UConn 77. - BC 55

https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/46558212/mercury-tibbetts-critical-late-ejection-closeout-game-4 ....."the first coach in league history to be ejected in a Finals game.....it's just embarrassing," Tibbetts said." Couldn't agree more

Coaching play a factor? If not should it?

Million dollar coach pathetic .....well definitely a much different approach from other coaches earning less.

" The Aces’ win yesterday was their fifth straight over the Mercury since dropping the first meeting of the season back in June, including a 4-0 mark since the All-Star break and a 5-0 mark with A’ja Wilson on the floor — she missed the first meeting while out of the lineup with a concussion...

Too early to break out the brooms?

Absolutely! For example Andy Reid fired by Eagles Other examples Tom Thibodeau Gregg Berhaulter No one in their right mind would consider any of these coaches mediocre. As you say they all are stellar coaches just changing conditions. Twain wrote about the literary offenses of James...

That was my point ...... Cooper was ...... Unable to write coherently......

Yep! And professionals sports ownership relies on this very tactic in order to maintain their special status exempt from antitrust actions, special tax treatment, and the extraction of significant economic rents from naive communities who desperately seek a franchise.

Soooóoooo good. NBA owners in the form of Adam Silver are the ones who are in control here. The truth doesn't matter to them as they hold a monopoly in the form of a legal cartel. While I find their neglect of the WNBA unfathomable monopolists actions are governed by attempts to extract...

Mediocrity - defined by Cambridge-not very good at something or not very good at anything in particular, or something that is not very good: Hummmm...... Lots of contemporary talk today about how our educational system is failing students. This post characterization exemplary of that failure...

I think this is an important thesis. Not only regarding the specific situation about sports in Connecticut but more importantly about the health of pension funds and the propensity for pension fund managers to seek higher returns in illiquid investments

Provocative article outlining some of the complexity of the intersection of public policy and sports. *With luck the Women’s National Basketball Association will disabuse the governor, the treasurer, and state legislators out of using pension money to become ...." An accelerating trend which...

You're absolutely correct. And Mack, who's had an outstanding year defensively and backs down from no one, will certainly have a monster challenge with Wilson. Obviously it's going to be a committee assignment by the Merc to try to slow Wilson down. Her teammates can certainly help her by...