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> "InfoSuperHwyRoadKill"
hellsgate.com> wrote in
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>> If you think you want to argue hoops with me, you are out of your league.
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> I never said that I wanted to argue hoops with you.
You're action spoke.
I'm not
> only not in your league, I'm not even in the same building. I've never
> been a sports fan. But I do remember when girls' high school basketball
> was played half court, supposedly because the females were too delicate to
> play both ends of the court.
Actually, the rate of ACL injuries for women's basketball players in high
school and college compared to that of men doesn't rule this out.
> Tell that to any of Pat Summit's players, past or present.
The female knee is a joint and not an entertainment."
-PERCY HAMMOND
So wrote the old Chicago Tribune critic in an acerbic review of a
long-forgotten musical, but his subject could have been a certain
contemporary women's sport played with a round ball. As far as women's
college basketball goes, the knee has never seemed more like a joint or been
less entertaining. Just ask Tiffany Woosley, the outstanding shooting guard
at the University of Tennessee . Woosley has spent much of her life engaging
in high-risk sports such as water skiing and off-road four-wheeling; one
time she walked away unhurt after ramming her four-wheeler into a tree and
flipping the vehicle. But on Dec. 31, 1994, before a national television
audience and 13,227 screaming fans at Vanderbilt , she performed a basic
basketball maneuver-the jump stop-and heard a rip in her right knee,
something like a thick piece of paper being torn. "I knew right away exactly
what I did," says Woosley.
If Woosley wants a player to commiserate with, she can (and does) talk to
Lady Vol teammate Nikki McCray , an All-America forward who tore an ACL in a
pickup game during her Prop 48 season, 1990-91. The pain doesn't end there
for Tennessee coach Pat Summitt ; one of her top signees for next season,
Kellie Jolly, a 5'9" guard at White County High in Sparta , Tenn. , tore her
ACL early this season. Keep in mind, this is not the whole list-only the
beginning of it.
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1006212/index.h...
http://www.theacc.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/020706aab.html
http://www.fullcourt.com/columns/brian52504c.html
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2003-06-24-acl-cover_x.htm
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> I'll bow to your expertise on women's basketball. IIRC, the Wasilla team
> won the state's SMALL school championship.
Thanks for additional information confirming my point on the subject. Her
BB experience is trumped up just like her executive experience -- player and
mayor of wasilla - joke. If she were a man with the exact same credentials,
mayor of wasilly and 22 month gov of Alaska, this would not be the VP
candidate.
Karl Rove knows;
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/97592/
I'm
> surprised that there are enough schools to divided into small and large
> schools. I also note that your scouting and evaluations were done live,
> not from grainy 25 year old video on a PC monitor.
>
> That's my son's field (baseball, football, and basketball).
> Osgood-Schlatter disease ended his baseball hopes just before he entered
> high school. A few years back, he had his knees 'scoped and has played in
> a couple of softball leagues since.
>
> He's a fan of the Cubs, the Bears, and the Bulls (even before he lived 4
> years in the Chicago area). He has tickets for the Titans and the Preds.
>
> Check out
www.chicagocubsonline.com . It's his. SI and the Chicago
> newspapers link to it. Even discounting a father's pride, the site is
> good.
>
>
> --
> Kent Finnell
> From the Music City, USA
>
