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WHB History:
WHB founders Ted and Sara grew up in Minnesota. After moving around the country for a decade, they moved back home to Minneapolis in 2004. Ted is a lawyer and law professor at William Mitchell College of Law. Sara is a law student. They have one daughter, Evelyn, who already has a sick crossover.
You can read a bit more about Ted and Sara and how they started the blog here and here. You can read some of Ted’s legal writing here.
Jessie grew up in Connecticut; she and Steve lived in Minnesota for seven years, and they now live in the suburbs of Boston. Their stable of favorite teams reflects this geography. They have three cats and one small child, Nathan, who is a Red Sox fan, but also likes womens hoops; his first-ever basketball game was a Lynx win.
Jessie is Blog Editor for Beacon Broadside, the blog of Beacon Press. Steve teaches literature at Harvard University; his short book of poems and prose about the WNBA is Shot Clocks, and his latest full-length book of poems is Parallel Play. You can reach them through their website. Since Steve is a) obsessive, and b) more energetic, their blog posts these days are almost invariably written by him, so email Steve (steve [at] accommodatingly.com) when he gets stuff wrong.
Current WHB
Helen arrived late to the women’s basketball fan party and has been over-compensating ever since. It all started when she walked into Madison Square Garden in 1997 for her first Liberty basketball game. To cover her ignorance, Helen’s spent hours boning up on women’s basketball history, and put together an extensive timeline that reaches back to 1892. You used to find it at Kim Callahan’s fabulous site Women’s Basketball Online, but Kim decided to have a life, and so it was transferred to the WHB site. (Lots of links have fallen into disrepair, but the bones are good. One of these days…)
In 2000, dumb luck got her involved in writing about women’s basketball. If you suffer from insomnia, you can check out Helen’s articles in her searchable blog-archive, Unintentional Journalist.
When she’s actually earning a living, it is as a drama specialist in New York City. After 15 years as a teaching artist in the NYC school system, she currently the Director of the CUNY/Creative Arts Team’s Early Learning Through the Arts Program. (Not so) Recently she blogged about her experience teaching in the United Arab Emirates, wrote a little about her time in Ethiopia and contributed a chapter to the new edition of “Learning Through Theatre.”
When she’s not using theatre as a teaching tool or blogging about women’s basketball, she birds and (her recent obsession) goes SCUBA diving.
You can reach her at womenshoopsblog @ gmail.com.
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Helen,
Is it time to begin the annual crusade to get the New York Times to print WNBA standings and results on a daily basis? I believe that there is a team in New York even though they’re in temporary exile in New Jersey.
Helen : my name is Wallace Williams , 55 Jarvis Rd Manchester Ct 06040. I need two(2) tickets for the Maggie Dixon game @ MSG. It would be great to join your group for the game. Thanks Wallace !
Hey wallace – Please email me your info at WomensHoopsBlog @ gmail. I’ve put you into the excel, but I need your email for further contacts.
Hey Helen — I just came across your blog. I’m wondering if you would be interested to learn about exactly how the women’s sized basketball came to be so that you can add this to your research. It is an interesting story, and a story that has not yet been told. I’m working on a paper and hope to get it published in a journal, but I think sharing the history with you is needed. You have in your blog that in 1984 a smaller basketball was adopted — but do you know the history and story of that basketball? Please just email me if you are interested and I’ll be happy to give you the information, and you can add it to your timeline if you want.
Just a quick note about me: You can google my name to learn a few things. But also, I played basketball from 6th grade through high school, then at the University of Alabama, and then in 1978 my dream came true and I played in the WBL. I stopped after one year, and went back to school. I received my doctorate and have been a Sport Management Professor since 1984. And, I am STILL a HUGE women’s basketball fan!!!
Thanks for your work! —- Brenda Pitts
Brenda – Thanks for reaching out. I’d LOVE to hear about the back story (though I have some ideas). Who did you play with in the WBL? And that timeline… sigh… Oh, to have a summer off to update… Helen – You can reach me through the gmail womenshoopsblog @ gmail.com
Hi Helen, Must be a couple of weeks ago I put in a request for two Maggie Dixon tickets at a different address (I don’t remember what it was). Anyway, I’m not sure I did it right and I’m not certain you received it. Just confirming I would like a total of two tickets. Thanks a lot. Ted Naughton
naught2@me.com
PO Box 565
Stony Brook NY 11790
I tried to Email at the womanhoods and didn’t get through.
Would love two tickets to the Maggie Classic
We decided not to go to Vermont until after the game; there’ll be plenty of snow this year
Michael Feldman
msf2@ymail.com
(msf22b)
Do you guys write for other blogs? I would love to repost your blog posts on our site… BiniSports.com… we will be going live very soon and are currently looking for blog writers.
Not so much – it is just me running this foolishness. :0) feel free to repost…
just some interesting information– your timeline is a bit off. The first edition of Spalding guide – Basket Ball for women was actually published in 1899.
Thanks – not surprised. It was “researched” in ’04. Who knows how accurate the ‘net sources were. What’s your source?
Hi, Helen. Been seeing updates on other MAC teams-how about ToledoWBB on occasion? Still love/follow your coverage-and Toledo/Lucas County went very blue in election.lol. We’re 2-0, 3 of us all tied up for 1rst early in MAC WConf. of course. Will be playing ND,UCLA(in Cancun) Dayton.
Hey – tracking Toledo. Kinda hoping for some good news :-(
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