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Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the past and future of women's basketball and presents biographies of eight of the sport's most famous players: Cynthia Cooper, Teresa Edwards, Lisa Leslie, Rebecca Lobo, Nikki McCray, Dawn Staley, Kate Starbird, and Sheryl Swoopes.
Author
Publisher
Cascade Pass
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
38 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life and basketball career of Tamecka Dixon, a player for the Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA, and describes what it is like to be a woman basketball player.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sparks fly both on and off the court in this groundbreaking feature debut by writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood, who elevated the coming-of-age romance by giving honest expression to the challenges female athletes face in a world that doesn't see them as equal. Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps make for one of the most iconic screen couples of the 2000s as the basketball-obsessed next-door neighbors who find love over flirtatious pickup games, fall...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals. Despite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twenty years before women's soccer became an Olympic sport and two decades before the formation of the WNBA, the '76 US women's basketball team laid the foundation for the incredible rise of women's sports in America at the youth, collegiate, Olympic, and professional levels. Though they were unknowns from small schools such as Delta State, the University of Tennessee at Martin and John F. Kennedy College of Wahoo, Nebraska, at the time of the '76...
Publisher
DCTV
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Winners of the 1996 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship, the University of Tennessee's Lady Volunteers seemed poised to contend for the trophy again. But halfway through the 1997 season, the team was losing almost every important game. Even the remarkable efforts of All-American forward Chamique Holdsclaw could not keep the team from falling apart. Could this team really win again?
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