Eight players have already been selected to participate in the U.S. women’s basketball camp. Fourteen more were invited to participate as well.
While Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Tamika Catchings, Candace Parker, Sylvia Fowles, Cappie Pondexter, Seimone Augustus and Kara Lawson are guaranteed a spot on the team, the fourteen other players are not. They will have to earn a spot even though they were invited to camp. Coach Geno Auriemma is probably thrilled to have a variety of former UCONN players at his disposal. In addition to Bird and Taurasi, he will always have the pleasure of coaching Swin Cash, Ashja …read more

Stanford is going back to the Women’s Final Four … and this time, they mean business.
Without former Player of the Year Candice Wiggins, Stanford needed one of its players to step up big time. Jayne Appel did more than “step up.” She dropped 46 points on Iowa St., to propel her team to St. Louis for another go at an NCAA Championship.
There was no stopping the 6-foot-4 junior, who is 20 pounds lighter than she was last season. Almost every time the ball came to Appel down in the  post, she made a basket. I can honestly say that she …read more