Lisa Leslie

What’s Next For The WNBA?

SLAM Online (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008

Goody breaks down the W and looks to the future.

Either Your Slinging Crack Rock or You Got a Wicked Jumpshot: Sports, Politics, and Economic Opportunity in the 21st Century’s Racial Reality

Real Talk NY (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008

Article by Michael Partis “Cash Rules Everything Around Me” is the reality. Does politics fit inside of it? Forty years ago this month, the 1968 Olympic Games was defined by the political statement of two Black athletes. With Black fist raised high, and an ode to the Black Power movement displayed, Tommie Smith and John [...]

Forecast in the Bay Area: Warriors' Thunder is done

San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008

With the Oklahoma City Thunder part of the NBA lineup, the Golden State Warriors' mascot appears to be a goner. Thunder is his name. Thunder has been part of the franchise for more than a decade and his likeness is featured on the team's primary logo, though the team doesn't use that image much anymore.

Sparks fly in a true battle of the giants of WNBA basketball

Sports news (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008

All the MVPs from the past nine seasons featured in a memorable play-off series which saw Los Angeles overcome Seattle.

Sparkin' up the Galen joint

Inside the Lakers (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008

Maybe you've heard through various second-, third- and fourth-hand sources (aw, for heaven sakes, do a Google search once and a while for "WNBA" and "not yet disbanded") that the WNBA's Sparks have to play their one and only home...

Golden Touch: Sparks' Leslie, Parker and Milton-Jones Talk About Beijing

The FanHouse - NBA (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008

Filed under: WNBA , NBA Videos , USA Basketball Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos. WNBA star Lisa Leslie is one of the greatest American Olympians in history, winning four gold medals in four consecutive Olympics. In this video we catch up with Leslie and two of her Sparks teammates -- Candace Parker and...

Dominant U.S. Restore Basketball's "Natural Order"

Sports - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008

Flashing smiles as ultra-bright as the gold medals hanging around their necks, the United States restored basketball's "natural order" at the Beijing Olympics....

• Dominant US restore basketball's 'natural order' - ABS CBN
• Dominant U.S. restore basketball's "natural order" - Reuters

U.S. basketball team's effort — on and off court — was dreamy

Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008

BEIJING - It wasn't so much the way the U.S. men's basketball team played in its 118-107 gold-medal win over Spain that proved how deeply these NBA superstars cared about the Olympics, although certainly their intensity against the talented Spaniards spoke volumes.

Gold, again: Lisa Leslie gets 4th medal in rout of Australia

Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008

BEIJING -- Among the things Lisa Leslie packed in her suitcase for her fourth trip to the Olympics were her three gold medals. The captain of the U.S. women's basketball team figured the medals would inspire her as she faced the end of her international career, and she vowed to add to the collection Saturday night and parade around the Wukesong Basketball Arena with four gold medals dangling from her...

Olympics: Leslie goes ou with fourth gold

JSOnline (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008

Beijing - Beijing — It was her final Olympic game, a moment that was 12 years in making, and Lisa Leslie wanted the rest of the world to know it. She packed her previous three gold medals, fully intending to go home with a fourth. So if that meant gettin...

US beats Australia 92-65, wins fourth straight Olympic gold medal in women's basketball

Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008

BEIJING (AP) _ Lisa Leslie and the U.S. women's basketball team were once again too good for Australia at the Olympics.

Headed straight four history: U.S. women golden again

Soulfull Vibes (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008

BEIJING (AP) - Lisa Leslie and the U.S. women's basketball team were once again too good for Australia at the Olympics. Leslie capped off her illustrious Olympic career with a fourth straight gold... Visit Soulfull Vibes for more information

US women's basketball wins fourth straight gold

Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008

BEIJING (AP) -- Lisa Leslie and the U.S. women's basketball team were once again too good for Australia at the Olympics....

U.S. stops Australia for women's basketball gold medal

LA Times (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008

For the third consecutive Olympics, the Americans dispatch the Aussies in dominating fashion. Lisa Leslie wins her fourth gold medal. BEIJING -- The "Star-Spangled Banner" sounded so much sweeter to the U.S. women's basketball team the second time.

US women's basketball wins fourth straight gold

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008

BEIJING -- Lisa Leslie and the U.S. women's basketball team were once again too good for Australia at the Olympics.