Most team names are also very similar to those of NBA teams in the same market, such as the Washington Wizards and Washington Mystics, the Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx.
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Basketball (for both men and women) is one of the sports that the host nation of the Island Games may select for competition.
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By 1895, the game had spread to colleges across the country, including Wellesley, Vassar and Bryn Mawr.
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The 1999 IGA SuperThrift Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at The Greens Country Club in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the United States that was part of Tier III of the 1999 WTA Tour.
Lower Austrian state councillor Gabriele Heinisch-Hosek was seen as the most likely women's minister, with Styrian MP Elisabeth Grossmann also a possibility.
The company has affiliations with the American Association of Women Dentists, American Dental Association, American Student Dental Association, Dental Trade Alliance, National Dental Association, British Dental Health Foundation, and Australian Dental Industry Association among others.
For the past six years, Andrea has been a part of the world’s best women's paddler team, Team Bradley, the seven-time winner (as of 2012) of Na Wahine O Ke Kai race, the challenging 42-mile channel crossing women’s OC6 - six-man canoe race.
After a journey of 24 days crossing the Andes to a region where white women had never before traveled, they arrived in Puerto Maldonado, a small village in the Amazon basin, situated between two large rivers, the Madre de Dios and the Tambopata, along which all communication took place.
On holidays (Muhammad's birthday and baptism, Ramadan, Tabaski) women dance to drums in various little corners around town.
The Bangladeshi delegation consisted of four officials and four competitors: two men and two women, who took part in three different sports—athletics, boxing and swimming.
Chewing gum magnate and Chicago Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley decided, in 1942, to start a women's professional baseball league, concerned that the 1943 Major League Baseball season might be canceled because of World War II.
The event featured representatives from joshi promotions All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW), GAEA Japan, Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (JWP), and Ladies Legend Pro Wrestling (LLPW), as well as puroresu promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (which had a large women's division at the time).
In July 2009, caBIG announced a collaboration with the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation to build an online cohort of women willing to participate in clinical trials.
The women's K-1 500 metres event was an individual kayaking event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics program.
She helped change the movement of women in the fashion industry, along with Donna Karan and Liz Claiborne.
Among his other works are Puen Pang (1987), about two sisters in love with the same man; Muen and Rid (1994), a true story from Rama IV-era Siam about a woman who petitioned King Mongkut to make equal rights for women; and Tawipob (1990), the first film adaptation of a novel by Thommayanti, about a modern-day socialite who time travels back to Rama V-era Siam and becomes involved in the political and diplomatic intrigue of the day.
In June 2007 Daisy was one of two Victorian Women's Football League representatives in the E J Whitten Legends Game where she played again such football legends as Scott Cummings, Nick Holland, Mick Martyn and Nicky Winmar.
He was named NJCAA New England Women's Basketball Coach of the Year nine times, Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) Coach of the Year six times, NJCAA District Coach of the Year three times and Converse District One Coach of the Year in 1994.
The single follows the same basic tune of the original song, and focuses on typically expensive and glamorous objects that the women of the group are wanting, such as diamonds, rubies, expensive cars such as Bentleys and designer clothes such as Gucci.
McCaffery’s wife, Margaret, was a standout women’s basketball player from Saint Paul, Minnesota.
The updated Betty Grable-type subject, was a fashionable glamor figure that Lichtenstein used for a symbolic value that ranks her with "iconoclastic female figures, including Manet's Olympia, 1863, Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907 and de Kooning's three series of Women".
Other varieties which remained popular were the 1828 ‘Félicité-Perpétue’ - Perpetua and Felicity were two Christian women martyred for their faith in Carthage in AD203.
In 1847 he studied at Yale Law School, taught school briefly at a women's institute, and the following year moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he practiced his profession in partnership with William Dennison, Jr. (who was to become Governor of Ohio in 1860).
Other broadcasts that Rowe has been a part of with her time at ESPN include play-by-play for Women's World Cup matches, coverage of the Running of the Bulls, coverage of swimming, and broadcasts of track & field events.
People also visit the town to buy brightly colored hand-woven fabrics made by the native Mazatec women, and to consume the endemic entheogenic fungi, especially the Psilocybe mushrooms.
Negi's involvement and the Gold inspired the successful 2007 Shahrukh Khan film about women's field hockey, Chak De India.
His twin sister, Tahirah, played basketball as a guard at Connecticut She was a senior on the 2008–09 Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team that went undefeated and won the National Championship.
JJ Hones (born December 10, 1987) is a former Stanford Cardinal women's basketball player.
As of 2013, Farmers major offerings include Women's Fashion, Men's Fashion and Mercery, Lingerie, Serviced Comestics, Health & Beauty, Accessories, Children's, Kitchen and Tabletop, Small Appliances, Manchester, and Furniture.
His sisters Jocelyne and Monique, both born 1989 (twins), both won silver medals with Team USA at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and are currently both forwards with the women's NCAA team at the University of North Dakota.
In recognition of her contribution, in 2007 the Aussie Hearts sponsored her to go to Australia where she conducted many clinics and showed her AAGPBL PowerPoint presentation to hundreds of Aussie women ball players.
Jessie Barr (born 24 July 1989 in Waterford, Republic of Ireland) is an Irish athlete who will compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's 4 × 400 metres relay.
For her bravery, Prince Józef Poniatowski awarded her the medal of Virtuti Militari; Joanna was the first female soldier to be awarded the decoration and one of the first women in the world to receive a military award for bravery in battle.
She was named, along with Alexandria Karlsen as one of several women connected with Philadelphia businessman Andrew Yao, who was convicted of bankruptcy fraud, and later plead guilty to ten counts of fraud and money laundering for lying about and concealing gambling expenditures and extravagant gifts to former Playboy and Penthouse models.
Katherine Washington is a former American women's basketball player, who played on the first two U.S. women's national teams, earning world championships in 1953 and 1957.
The town is the birthplace of the highest ranked Hungarian tennis player Ágnes Szávay (at one time ranked 13th in the world), who has won five WTA titles.
She toured nationally with Sister Spit, a group of women writers that also included such well-regarded authors as Michelle Tea, Eileen Myles, Lynn Breedlove, Sini Anderson and others.
Since its adoption, the basic model of an athlete or equipment used for the sport in silhouette flanked by red and blue has also been incorporated in the logos of the National Basketball Association (with Jerry West as its player model), Women's National Basketball Association, Arena Football League, American Hockey League, National Lacrosse League, Indy Racing League, and Major League Gaming.
At the 2006 European Championships in Władysławowo, Poland she won gold in the Women's 58 kg with 237 kg in total, breaking three European records.
″Lou Lou″, as her teammmates called her, is part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York and unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
The future marked a key turning point for Mexican American women, as the Chicano Movement and Civil Rights Movement was emerging, and women's role in society was beginning to change.
On June 29, 2002, Romulo Antonio Braschi, the founder of a schismatic community, attempted to confer priestly ordination on the following Catholic women : Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, Adelinde Theresia Roitinger, Gisela Forster, Iris Müller, Ida Raming, Pia Brunner and Angela White.
Organizations that Dr Lafaie has been a member of, such as Jamiat Islami, have been criticised by groups such as the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan and Support Association for the Women of Afghanistan, and as a consequence Lafaie has been targeted by several of these groups.
This crash should not be confused with a second plane crash that happened on November 17, 2011, that killed head coach Kurt Budke and Assistant Coach Miranda Serna, of the OSU Women's Basketball team, as well as State Senator Olin Branstetter.
After moving to New York City and later Boston in the early 1900s and using the byline Ruby Ross Goodnow (her first married name), she wrote fiction, poetry, and articles about interior design for The Delineator, a popular women's magazine, where her editor was Theodore Dreiser.
For many women of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and Baroque periods to live a life completely retired from the world implied that they could live a life not only fully committed to God, but it also meant that they were able to devote time to their own writing, to their community and perhaps they could even have a place in the administration of their own convents.
Warwick Hostel expanded and moved to Studley Castle in Warwickshire in 1903, becoming Studley Horticultural & Agricultural College for Women.
Sunalini Menon has BSc and MSc degrees in food and nutrition from the Women's Christian College, which she attended between 1966 and 1971.
Published by conservative publisher World Ahead Publishing on May 31, 2005, it recounts the stories of seven women who crossed paths with Bill Clinton: Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, Elizabeth Gracen, Juanita Broaddrick, and Sally Perdue.
1913: Kate Gordon organizes the Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference, where suffragists plan to lobby state legislatures for laws that will enfranchise white women only.
On December 21, 2003 the bishop of the Ternopil-Zboriv eparchy, Mykhaylo Sabryha, and Abbot Gregory Planchak of the Monastery of St. Theodor the Studite blessed the women’s monastery of the Presentation of Mary in Velyki Birky.
The station was, for many years, the flagship station for The College of William & Mary Tribe football and men's basketball.
It was organised by FIDE and was played in a match format between the defending champion and a challenger, determined via the FIDE Grand Prix series.
April 27: The women's basketball team, along with the women's soccer and volleyball teams, paired up to contribute to the community on April 25 by participating in the Habitat for Humanity Project in the Liberty City section of northwest Miami.
The 2013–14 Nicholls State Colonels women's basketball team represents Nicholls State University during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I women's basketball season.
His sister Indi plays forward for the women’s basketball team at Southern University while his cousins, Kevin and Kaelin Burnett both play linebacker for the Oakland Raiders.
At the 2006 Commonwealth Games she won a silver medal as part of the Tall Ferns New Zealand women's basketball team.
In 2010 Anderson hosted the PAC 10 Women’s Basketball tournament on Fox Sports Net alongside Lisa Leslie, as well as served as a sideline reporter on regular season games.
Anucha Browne Sanders, American former women's basketball player, former executive for the New York Knicks of the NBA
The Army Black Knights women's basketball team is the women's basketball team that represents the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.
Astou Traoré (born 30 April 1981) is a Senegalese women's basketball power forward with Charleville-Mézières in France.
Basket Astarac Mirande was a French women's basketball club from Mirande.
Beth Burns was the head women's basketball coach at San Diego State for 1989 to 1997 and from 2005 until her sudden and unexpected retirement in April 2013.
Boston Bulldogs (WBCBL), a professional women's basketball team and member of the Women's Blue Chip Basketball League whose name was changed from Boston Bombers after the Boston Marathon bombings
Botaş SK, a sports club known for its women's basketball team
He and his wife Lynne have six children: Four sons, named Wayne, David, Austin and Brandon, and twin daughters, Courtney and Ashley, who each currently play in the WNBA for the Chicago Sky and Phoenix Mercury women's basketball teams respectively.
Courtney Urquhart (Class of 2005) - Played professionally in Martigny, Switzerland, for the Ovronnaz-Martigny women's basketball team.
She is concurrently the Associate Athletic Director for Student Services and Senior Woman Administrator, and previously served as the head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes Women's Basketball Team from 1983-2005.
Chelle Flamoe is a former women's basketball player who is best known for playing in college for the Oregon State Beavers, and later for playing on the U.S. Women's Basketball Olympic team.
In addition to its regular schedule of tourist information programming, CJRN acted as the radio broadcast home for the sports teams of Buffalo, New York's Canisius College, including men's and women's basketball and hockey.
Staley reached the 100 win plateau in the A-10 Semifinals vs Xavier that season, becoming the fastest coach in women's basketball to achieve that.
Ryan also coached the American women's basketball team at the 2003 Pan American Games.
The women's basketball team has gone undefeated in CAA play the last two seasons under head coach Tina Martin and All-American Elena Delle Donne.
His daughter Kathi Bennett is currently head women's basketball coach at Northern Illinois and is a former head women's basketball coach at Indiana University.
Dodge City Community College also plays its home men's and women's basketball games there.
He has two brothers and two sisters: Monica of Georgetown University Women's Basketball, Billy McCaffrey, a former Duke and Vanderbilt college basketball player, Michael and Meghan.
The arena was used as the temporary home of the UNO men's and women's basketball teams from the 2005-2006 season until 2008 while Lakefront Arena was being repaired following Hurricane Katrina.
The Jacobson Building is the home of Cyclone athletics containing all sport and administrative offices except men's and women's basketball and volleyball.
He has spoken at several young voters rallies including one in one sponsored by PSU Votes, a nonpartisan political initiative where both he and Penn State women's basketball coach Coquese Washington spoke.
Although the University of New Mexico (UNM) had a women's basketball team as early as 1898, formal intercollegiate play did not start until the 1974-75 season.
She coached many talented players at Long Beach, including LaTaunya Pollard, the 1983 Wade Trophy winner, 3-time 1st team All-American, 1980 Olympic Team member, and member of the women's basketball hall of fame; 2-time 1st team All-American and 1988 U.S. Olympic Team member Cindy Brown; 1985 1st team All-American Kirsten Cummings; and 2-time 1st team All-American Penny Toler, the current general manager of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks.
On January 28, 2008, Kellie earned her 66th win, passing Beth Dunkenberger as the second winningest women's basketball coach in Western Carolina history with a 60–49 victory over College of Charleston at the Ramsey Center.
It is located on the campus of Kansas Wesleyan University and is home to the university's men's and women's basketball teams.
OSN used KEZI's sports broadcasters for production of the coaches' shows, featuring Mike Bellotti (former football head coach), Ernie Kent (men's basketball head coach) and Bev Smith (former women's basketball head coach).
Rhonda Rompola is the head women's basketball coach at SMU.
The Golden Eagles compete in NJCAA Division III in volleyball, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, softball, men's and women's tennis and golf.
The Saint Francis Red Flash are the 22 sports teams representing Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania in intercollegiate athletics, including men and women's basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, track and field, and volleyball; women's-only bowling, field hockey, lacrosse, softball, and swimming; and men's-only football.
With 1997 opening of Cox Arena, now called Viejas Arena, the men's and women's basketball teams moved across the street from Peterson Gym.
Suzy Batkovic-Brown (née Batković) (born 17 December 1980 in Lambton, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian women's basketball player.
In the off-season, Cash has appeared as a studio analyst on ESPN's NBA Fastbreak (according to ESPN.com) and during the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, she alternated with Teresa Edwards in presenting in-game commentary for NBC's presentation of the women's basketball tournament from the network's New York broadcast studios.
Curley drew criticism for his handling of allegations of anti-gay discrimination by Penn State women's basketball coach Rene Portland.
After becoming a fixture at youth basketball camps in the Tohoku region, Holden was offered the head coaching job with a professional women’s basketball team sponsored by Yamagata Bank.
The facility houses a 2,500-seat multi-purpose gymnasium that is the home to the Michigan-Dearborn Men's and Women's basketball teams, and UMD Women's Volleyball team competing at the NAIA Division II level in the Wolverine–Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC).
The first women's basketball team was started in 1973, as a result of the Title IX mandates.
Parents Television Council founder L. Brent Bozell claimed that there was a lack of protest against this episode compared to radio host Don Imus's comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, even challenging Flowers' comments that the episode's use of nigger was not intended to be racist, but in fact the theme of the episode was to argue against those who support civility.
Women's National Basketball League, an Australian professional women's basketball league
This gives the two stations the exclusive rights to the weekly highlights shows featuring head football coach, head men's basketball coach Cuonzo Martin, head women's basketball coach Pat Summit, and other UT athletic-related programs in the Knoxville market.
WZAN carried Imus in the Morning until Don Imus' controversial statements about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, the show returned in March 2009 after a programming shift.
ŽKK Gospić (or Gospić Croatia Osiguranje in sponsorship) is a Croatian women's basketball club from Gospić.