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Ed Tapscott has been waiting for this day almost 18 months. He stands stage left in Founders Hall, waiting for the show to start, decked out in a dark suit [...]

Pamela and Paula McGee are both 34, 6-foot-3 and 180 pounds. But that's just about where all the similarities with the well-known twins end. Pamela is a professional basketball player [...]

Women's professional basketball is on the rebound with the debut of the new American Basketball League (ABL), the fifth attempt in more than a decade to bring women's pro ball [...]

Staley hopes to lead Team USA to the gold in the 1996 Olympics and generate public interest in the new pro women's league, the American Basketball League. She played pro ball in Spain after college, and helps kids in her Philadlephia inner-city neighborhood stay out of trouble through sports.

If you'd blinked, you might have missed the story's beginnings entirely. Earlier this summer, when Time Out New York reporter Bilge Ebiri interviewed Sue Wicks, forward for the New York [...]

University of Tennessee women's basketball player Chamique Holdsclaw has the skills and talent for the game, and has been called the female version of Michael Jordan. Holdsclaw has helped her team win three straight national championships, and hopes to leave her senior year in 1999 with a fourth.

AT the conclusion of each of the last seven seasons, Chamique Holdsclaw has walked away with a win, a grin and as a champion. There was the grammar school title, […]

She's got great looks, a fabulous smile, and a terrific personality. And, oh yeah, she's one of the best college basketball players in the country. She was a three-time conference […]

Unlike many modern-day pro athletes, Tammy Sutton-Brown won't be able to slip away to a million-dollar beachfront home this off-season. In fact, the six-foot, four-inch, 200-lb. centre with the Charlotte [...]

Sixty-one years after the team officially disbanded, the ranks of the Edmonton Grads -- perhaps the most successful squad in the history of Canadian sport -- are growing precariously thin. [...]

WHEN the Women's National Basketball Association started in 1997, few thought the league would go so far so fast. Boasting 16 teams, the world's top female basketballers and millions of [...]

REASON TO CELEBRATE: University of Tennessee All-American basketball players Tamika Catchings (1), and Semeka Randall stop to congratulate each other during a recent graduation ceremony in Knoxville, TN. Catchings, of [...]

Houston Comets guard Kim Perrot, who is currently on the team's injured reserve list while she battles cancer, accepts her WNBA championship ring from Comets owner Les Alexander in Houston. [...]

For sheer popularity, Rebecca Lobo is the WNBA's go-to girl. Now she wants her game to match. To understand the enduring power of the high heel, you must meet Rebecca [...]

Playing a sport few people watch in a league few people know, Sheryl Swoopes couldn't possibly be like Mike in terms of her earning potential. Still, her $1.2 million in […]

Kim Perrot of the WNBA's Houston Comets, who is battling lung cancer that has spread to her brain, was the guest of honor at the Houston Rockets' annual charity fund-raiser. [...]

The Bartelle twins (LaTisha and LaTori) and the Middleton twins (Adia and Amber) the two pair of identical sisters who grace the Virginia Union University (VUU) girls basketball team- get [...]

Sheryl Swoopes, Ricki Lake and Wynonna answer questions regarding parenting. The questions include how to make a four-year-old less dependent, whether an eight-year-old should be forbidden to play with a wild child next door and how to tone down a loud-singing child who is an awful singer.

Stella Waterman was the star of her high school basketball team in New Gloucester, ME. She joined the team in 1946, and she recalls a victory against a larger school in 1950. During high school, she scored 2,161 points, which is the third-highest point total still for high school girls.

McCray's success in the hardcourt can never be tainted with behavior problems that most famous basketball stars are known for. A sweet woman of 26 who displays discipline and humility like a pro, McCray is destined to move beyond her $1-million Fila contract and her 1996 Olympics gold medal.

Before April 5, basketball had been very good to Sherry' Winn. After graduating as an academic all-American and conference MVP in 1986 from the University of Charleston in West Virginia, [...]

The Women's National Basketball Assn is relying on Lisa Leslie's star quality and playing talent to draw fans and TV audiences to the new league. Leslie believes that women's basketball will have the excitement needed to retain summer TV viewers.