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7-Foot-2 Ex-WNBA Star Margo Dydek Dead at 37

Fri, 27 May 2011 09:43:05 CDT

Former WNBA player Margo Dydek died today after suffering a heart attack a week ago and being placed in a medically induced coma. She was 37. Poland-born Dydek, who was pregnant with her third child, suffered the heart attack on May 19 and collapsed at her home in Brisbane. Dydek...

7-Foot-2 Ex-WNBA Player in Coma

Fri, 20 May 2011 12:15:27 CDT

Former WNBA player Margo Dydek, once said to be the tallest active professional female basketball player in the world at 7-foot-2, suffered a heart attack yesterday and is in a medically induced coma in a Brisbane hospital. Poland-born Dydek, 37, is pregnant with her third child and was taken to...

All Hail the Sports Nut-in-Chief

Polly Davis Doig — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:35:00 CDT

The only difference between the boys and the presidents is the scale of their jockalicious birthday weekends, and Barack Obama just threw himself a doozy, a predictably cranky Dana Milbank writes for the Washington Post. The president kicked it off with a round of golf with the boys, kept the...

Marion Jones Signs With WNBA Team

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:56:51 CST

Marion Jones, once called the world's fastest woman, was introduced today as the newest member of the WNBA's Tulsa Shock. It's been nearly a decade since she shot to fame with five sprinting medals at the Sydney Olympics, but less than 3 years since she was stripped of them over...

WNBA Next on Marion Jones' To-Do List

Will McCahill — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:45:48 CST

Marion Jones is taking another shot at professional sports—but this time it’s basketball, a sport she played well enough to earn a scholarship to the University of North Carolina. “I missed competitiveness,” Jones, 34, tells Kevin Blackistone at the Texas gym where she’s been training in hopes of landing...

Abe Pollin, Owner of DC Sports Teams, Dies at 85

Will McCahill — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:23:24 CST

Abe Pollin, the son of Russian immigrants who parlayed success in housing development into the ownership of Washington’s NBA and NHL franchises, died today of a rare neurological disease; he was 85. Pollin’s philanthropic efforts boosted many of the capital’s poorer areas, and he put $220 million of his own...

Russian Sports, Concert Tycoon Gunned Down

Will McCahill — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:00:48 CST

A former KGB agent turned sports- and concert-promoter was gunned down today in Moscow, with the submachine gun-toting assailants pulling alongside Shabtai von Kalmanovic’s Mercedes and killing him nearly instantly in a hail of bullets. Kalmanovic, 60, brought stars of the WNBA to Russia during its off-season to play for...

Women's Star Lieberman Wants to Play Obama

Will McCahill — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:48:06 CDT

Taking exception to all-male White House basketball games, Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman today challenged President Obama to some one-on-one. “To score some real points with the public, stop arguing and just play ball—with the best,” Lieberman, 51 and coming off a stint last year in the WNBA writes....

11 Reasons to Stop Hating the WNBA

Evann Gastaldo — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:02:29 CDT

The WNBA finals are going on, which has—in the past—led Sam Greenspan to joke, “Man I hope one of the players lands a one-handed breakaway dunk to seal the best-of-one series!” The league is “universally ripped on,” he writes for 11points.com, but the time has come to...