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...getting ready for Sydney with her sister Olympians? Short answer: the money woes and uneven support that still beset women's basketball. As a co-founder and star of the American Basketball League, Edwards found herself out of work last year when the league was buried by the rival WNBA--which is backed by the NBA The WNBA clearly coveted Edwards' star power, but it refused to pay her more than the $65,000-a-season rookie rate--about half Edwards' ABL pay and far less than the $200,000 she earned in Japan from 1989 to 1993. Legends...
...picked up her ball and went home, while her Olympic teammates--including such stars as Lisa Leslie of the Los Angeles Sparks and Chamique Holdsclaw of the Washington Mystics--run the WNBA hardwoods. Edwards will then rejoin them in August to prepare for a gold-medal defense in Sydney. That could prove more grueling than anything the men's Dream Team faces. The women's game is far more competitive at the top, and powerhouse women's teams like Russia and Cuba will make any American outfit earn its medal...
...Athletics, and maybe investment banking and real-estate speculation, have emerged as manhood's final frontiers, even as the WNBA comes knocking. After all, says Wolfe, "there is something a little [pause] luxurious about women commanding in the army. I mean, when you've got these big strapping men with deltoids and pects [and they aren't commanding], I guess you don't really need them." Modern feminists, cringe...
...sport dominated by mini-Goliaths. They make up for this by having "mad ups", which means they can jump really high. But don't expect to hear Billy Packer of CBS Sports using this slang on TV: he's busy telling his female co-workers to "go find a WNBA game...
...barely a WNBA city. An arena football league city, definitely...