E-Zine February 2005 INSIDE SCOOP™…Absent Information, Rumors

e-Zine February 2005 by Mel Greenberg INSIDE SCOOP™…Absent Information, Rumors Spread At this hour the news is there’s occurs, we’ll be back again nothing to report in terms of the quickly on this. name of the new president of the WNBA. Meanwhile, a new coach has yet to be named for the Los Angeles When Val Ackerman resigned in Sparks after management cleaned October, effective Feb. 1, the hope house following the team’s early was that her successor would exit in the first round of the already be known. playoffs. NBA president David Stern will Karleen Thompson, who had done make the hire, most probably with a fine job in an interim role Ackerman’s blessing. leading the Sparks to the best regular season record in the That move as much as anything is WNBA after Michael Cooper left an indication the women’s pro for the NBA’s Denver Nuggets, has basketball league will be able to taken a job as an assistant to continue as long as Stern is Houston coach Van Chancellor. master of the NBA. The rumor mill has been idle on this one, also. Whomever has been involved in the interview process, that Dan Hughes, the likeable coach of information has been on a ‘you the Cleveland Rockers before the really don’t need to know basis,’ team folded a year ago, has been through many levels of the WNBA. hired as the new coach of the San Antonio Silver Stars. Even officials at ESPN, the league’s broadcasting partner, “Every day I wake up, there’s an have been in the dark on this one. extra hop in my step because I have a team,” Hughes beamed Of course, the situation could recently. “I know we have a lot of change rapidly, and if such a move work to do, but I’m happy.” e-Zine page 2 The Silver Stars finished with the Villanova coach Harry Perretta, worst record in the league. who had a chance to gain his 500th win until Syracuse put a Look for the transaction wire to temporary halt to the milestone, heat up as Feb. 1 is the magic now has another shot in the date teams can begin signing Wildcats’ next game at Pittsburgh. restricted and unrestricted free agents. Perretta became a national figure two years ago when his Wildcats Best rumor has an unhappy center upset Connecticut in the Big East Yolanda Griffith leaving the championship to end the Huskies Western Conference playoff NCAA-record 70-game win streak runner-up Sacramento Monarchs. The national scene is the wildest On the college front, there have it’s ever been with much about been two women’s stories of note this season's NCAA tournament that have been making headlines. more out of focus than it normally is at this time of year. Temple coach Dawn Staley, who made plenty of news over the “I thought I had my arms wrapped summer in her role as a captain of around four of them (No. 1 the gold-medal winning Olympic seeds),” Lynn Parks, the head of squad, has her college team the tournament committee, said nationally-ranked for the first time recently. “But then I had to drop in school history. that idea. Staley’s Owls are also on a “We're going to probably have school-record 14-game win streak more upsets than ever when the and just blitzed through the tournament begins.” [RS] toughest part of their schedule in the Atlantic Ten with victories at Richmond and at home over George Washington and Xavier. Spread the word – Annual TEAM REAL SPORTS memberships available for just $14.99 and it includes the exclusive members only T-Shirt. Call 800-650-0122. .

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