It wasn’t enough for Diageo, the makers of Smirnoff vodka, to invite the good folks of Phoenix out to see their hockey team free with the purchase of a bottle of booze.  Now they’re plastering their name across The World’s Largest Beer Garden in an attempt to make further inroads into the sports scene. That’s [...]

Are you not ready to wish college basketball goodbye for the year? Do you wish you could see just one more unexciting blowout? Are you a fan of subpar hoops, like you saw last night? Well, you’re in luck, because tickets for tonight’s UConn-Louisville women’s national championship game are still available.

(Don’t expect many wide [...]

A former women’s basketball star at a Catholic university then becomes a high school softball coach? I’ll have to double check to make sure I got all of my stereotypes correct, but that sounds to me like a recipe for lesbian sex with an underage player.

Raenna Jewell, who was a 1000-point scorer at Gonzaga, was [...]

Leave it to Major League Baseball’s old and tired leadership to open half of the league’s games in cold climates, many of which will force postponements during the very first week of the season. While the proud and downtrodden denizens of Philadelphia should be have been celebrating the first professional sports crown in the city [...]

Is it time to talk about race in college athletics? No, not really. What purpose would it serve? What territory are we supposed to be driving towards by noticing that there’s only one white guy playing meaningful minutes in this Final Four game between Michigan State and UConn, and he’s not even from America? That’s [...]

Yesterday, we discussed the unfair nature of letting lower-seeded teams host games in the women’s NCAA tournament. And while the wild crowd at the Breslin Center helped push Michigan State to a stunning upset of Duke, other venues were not quite so fortunate. 10th-seeded San Diego State got to host second-seeded Stanford but drew only [...]

When Alex Simonka, women’s basketball coach of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, committed suicide last week, you had to know there would be more to the story. A lifelong Coast Guardsman and coach of the team for 16 years, Simonka by all accounts showed no signs of depression.

Ten days after Simonka was found in his [...]

Robert Bell of the GREENSBORO NEWS & RECORD has a report today on the elephant in the room when it comes to the marketing of the ACC women’s basketball tournament.

(NBA fans also are way out front on this issue!)
While the WNBA has enthusiastically embraced its lesbian fans, Bell reports that the ACC (and all [...]

Hank Gathers and Paul Westhead are tied together forever, by one horrible moment on a basketball court at Loyola Marymount, and years of increasingly ugly legal wranglings that followed.

They’re still tied together, by infinitely happier circumstances. Gathers’ nephew, Jordan Gathers, and Westhead’s grandson, Nick Lucenti are classmates and teammates at the aptly named Loyola [...]

Recall, if you will, the next big thing to happen to women’s hoops, in the form of 6′8″ (and still growing!) Brittney Griner, of Houston Nimitz High. Griner’s set to attend Baylor next fall, and barring any ACL disasters, will be dominating the WNBA shortly thereafter. So what’s she up to now?

If you guessed throwing [...]