For the Women’s B-Ball Fans in the House

20 May 2004 By

Diana Taurasi layupWhich might just be me. But anyway.

The WNBA regular season opens today. Minnesota at Seattle. Phoenix (and thus Diana Taurasi) vs Sacramento. Lots of games to be monitoring while on break at work when you throw in the Pistons Game 7 against New Jersey.

I’ll be reading Women’s Hoops Blog all season. Lots of info and commentary, and they’re local!

Also fun: WNBA vs. USA Basketball: The Game at Radio City

An All-Star team of WNBA players will square off against the 2004 USA Basketball Women’s Senior National Team on August 5 at New York’s historic Radio City Music Hall. The match-up, dubbed “WNBA vs. USA Basketball: The Game at Radio City,” will serve as a final send-off before the U.S. goes for the gold at the Summer Olympic Games in Athens. ESPN will televise the event nationally beginning at 7 p.m. EDT

Detroit Shock Head Coach Bill Laimbeer and his assistants will serve as coaching staff for the WNBA All-Star Team. Starters for the WNBA team will be chosen by a 51-member media panel (three local media members from each of the WNBA’s 13 markets, together with 12 national media members) and will be announced on-air at halftime of ESPN2’s coverage of Detroit at Houston on July 15. WNBA head coaches will select the first five reserves, who will be announced on-air at halftime of ESPN2’s coverage of the Minnesota at Connecticut game on July 22. The final reserve will be selected by WNBA fans via on-line balloting on WNBA.com and will be announced on air at halftime of the Los Angeles at Sacramento game on July 29 on ESPN2.

Sa-weet! I’ll just go ahead and add that to my calendar (where I might already have the complete Shock, Lynx, and Mercury schedules, with televised games and games to potentially attend specially noted…).

  • http://www.contractorpeon.com/blog glenn

    My girlfriend thinks D. Taurasi looks like a boy. I’ve had a thing for her for a couple years now.

  • Bridgette

    Yay WNBA! We (the Liberty–I work games for them) already had a pre-season game–so much fun. Sunday is opening day, and next Wednesday is the Shock. I think after I finish my work, I am going to go incognito and change into the Shock shirt I got when they first became a team.

  • http://www.swirlspice.com Erica

    My girlfriend thinks D. Taurasi looks like a boy.

    I’ll get over it.

  • http://www.angelfire.com/grrl/jen_garrett Jen

    Glad to know I’m not the only one who printed out the full schedule, then printed out the televised games schedule, then whipped out her highlighter, marked the important games, and then whipped out her calender and wrote down dates and times when she would be “unavailable” to the outside world due to game-time.

    I’ve already got tickets to the Sun/Mystics game in June, and I’m still pissed that the *one* Sun/Lynx game is while I’m on vacation.

    (And good job by D last night –22 pts! Ohlde wasn’t too shabby with her double-double, either.)