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December 30, 2017 by Helen

Stanford: Hold my beer.

Ah, nothing like getting some healthy players back into your lineup. Brittany McPhee returned and scored 12 of her 26 points in the fourth to lead the Cardinal over #11 UCLA, 76-65. With the win, Stanford avoided its first three-game home losing streak since 1985-86, VanDerveer’s first year on The Farm.

UCLA head coach Cori Close gave praise to her counterpart for the unfavorable outcome:

“Tara [VanDerveer] deserves the credit, and Stanford deserves the credit. They played with more focus. They executed their game plan better than we executed ours. They were the tougher team tonight, and they played with more focus and passion.”

Told ya: 9-16, 5-9 from 3, 6 rebounds, 8 assists, 3 steals, 25 pts. Ducks over Cougars, 89-56.

Congrats! Coach Charli Thorne wins her 450th game.

Congrats! Coach Joanne P. McCallie wins her 600th game.

Congrats! Coach Blair wins his 750th.

7 in a row for #20 Cal.

Told ya: FGCU over SDSU, 87-78.

Still no word: A key Gamecock will miss USC’s conference opener as her eligibility remains uncertain

Benjamin Hochman, St. Louis-Post Dispatch: Juggling basketball, law school is quite a feat

Even Wonder Woman wonders how she does it.

Lauren Aldridge is the starting point guard for Mizzou’s women’s basketball team.

Lauren Aldridge is a first-year student at Mizzou’s law school.

It’s mind-boggling to think she has the energy to do both of these, considering people push themselves to unfathomable limits to succeed at just one of them. But there’s a superhuman in Columbia, practicing on the court and for court, while showing young people that when someone says “follow your dreams,” it really can be plural.

MSR (aka Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder) Online: Plenty of good storylines filled our sports columns in 2017

2017 was not a bucket list sports year, but in so many ways it wasn’t any less memorable for that reason. Both “Another View” and “Sports Odds and Ends,” the two columns I am responsible for filing each week, once again stayed true to our overall mission to avoid game stories in favor of other sports-related news and information.

Our first “View” of 2017 featured Rachel Banham as only the second Black female basketball player at Minnesota to have her jersey put in the Williams Arena rafters. “That’s something I can tell my kids,” she told us.

A Dime Back: Some Not-Awful Moments in 2017

Awful Announcing: Debbie Antonelli thrilled, humbled to be tabbed for NCAA Tournament analysis

“I tried to stay on the road, because I was so excited to think that I was in that conversation.”

Listen up! Becoming a Pro Sports Executive – Work in Sports Podcast (gotta scroll down, but…)

Attitude and enthusiasm are the final barrier to entry into the sports world. It’s sports people!

You need to be enthusiastic and excited – or as this weeks guest Amber Cox Vice President of the Connecticut Sun and the New England Black Wolves says – you have to have sparkle.

This interview with Amber is awesome – she is a no BS sports executive, having been CMO of the MLS’s Houston Dynamo, Associate Commissioner of Women’s Basketball in the Big East Conference and President and COO of the Phoenix Mercury, but she is also extremely charismatic, excitable, enthusiastic and passionate.

Case in point: SportsChanel8: Time To Give Debbie Her Due

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso,
I fell in love with a Gibsonville girl
When she arrived the athletics were floundering
She turned the department into a pearl…..

As NC State’s football team prepares to face (and, likely, beat) Arizona State in the Sun Bowl, it might be a good time to take a minute and fully appreciate the job Debbie Yow has done in her time as NC State’s Athletics Director.

From  @NCAAResearch: Many former NCAA women’s basketball players also compete as professionals outside the USA. Top destinations: Germany, Turkey, Spain, Australia, Israel.

Listen up! If you haven’t had a chance to check out Burn It All Down yet, a great place to start is their year-in-review podcast.

This week, the gang talks about our favorite sports stories from this year, we share three of our favorite segments that we recorded in 2017, and then we cap it off with each of us choosing our own favorite Burn Pile from the first 33 episodes of this podcasting adventure. To help support the podcast, please consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/burnitalldown

Just want to bring this back from Breanna Stewart:

I’ll never forgive him.

But I’m not ashamed.

Every time I tell someone, I feel a little more unburdened. I wish it was as simple as saying that it’s just something that happened to me. Part of it is just that simple — it literally is something that happened. But I don’t know why it happened. I don’t know why this happens. Or why sexual abuse keepshappening.

I do know that I’m doing something completely outside of myself by writing this. In fact, this is one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done and will ever do. But I was recently reading McKayla Maroney’s personal account of sexual abuse — one of many powerful stories the #metoo campaign has inspired — and I felt … less alone.

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