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...best female golfer. As recently as the late '50s, Althea Gibson, who won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open twice each with a racquet, also enjoyed a swell career with a driver. Today sprinter Marion Jones, who starred in college hoops at North Carolina, would love to moonlight in the WNBA but knows she can't. If she shifts focus for a nano, she's lost...
After a month of negotiations, the decision: LISA HARRISON--the WNBA's Sexiest Babe, according to Playboy.com's online poll--will not drop her shorts for a Playboy layout. The 6-ft. Phoenix Mercury forward, who won the poll in a runaway after she breezily mentioned that she might pose if she won, decided she wouldn't show her most valuable assets after Playboy declined to show her the right combination of figures. (Neither side would discuss exact numbers.) During the unusually public full-court press by Playboy, persuasive layouts of volleyballer Gabrielle Reece and skater Katarina Witt were sent...
Lisa Kowal, co-captain Kristen Boike, and Carrie Larkworthy are the only remaining players to have played and practiced with now-legend Feaster, a guard/forward for the WNBA's Charlotte Sting. The fourth senior, co-captain and North Carolina transfer Melissa Johnson, played against Feaster in the NCAA tournament when Johnson was a Tar Heel...
Lesbians have long been the unmentioned multitude in the WNBA, a sport that prefers to target itself to families. But the L.A. Sparks are finally turning the light on that part of their fan base. The change began May 4, when Girl Bar, a lesbian dance club, held a preseason pep rally. Members lined up to meet players (but not star Lisa Leslie, who apparently had a prior engagement) and buy season tickets. The partnership will continue June 5, after the Sparks' first home game, when players will attend a cocktail party with Girl Bar members; the Sparks' June...
Harvard Athletics already has a diverse representation in professional sports to be proud of, with active alumni in the NHL, NFL, and WNBA. By this Sunday, the Crimson may well be adding the fledgling Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) to that distinguished list...