Chicago Sky

Chicago Sky give Prince multi-year extension

RedEye

Chicago Sky standout guard Epiphanny Prince received a multi-year contract extension, head coach and general manager Pokey Chatman announced Friday in a press release. The terms of the contract were not yet disclosed, per team policy. Last season,...

Tags: Women's National Basketball Association, Diana Taurasi

Chicago Sky player to play for Russian national team

Tags: Women's National Basketball Association, Awards and Prizes

Former UConn Star Kelly Schumacher Out To Make Olympic Volleyball Run

The Hartford Courant

Kelly Schumacher turned in one of the great individual performances in UConn women's basketball Final Four history when the 6-foot-5 center blocked nine shots in the 2000 national championship game victory over Tennessee. That could have been enough to...

Tags: Indiana Fever, Basketball, University of Connecticut Women's Basketball Program, 2012 Summer Olympics, Volleyball

Tree Rollins named assistant coach for WNBA's Chicago Sky

STAFF WRITER

Former Orlando Magic center Wayne "Tree" Rollins is back in the coaching seat, this time with the WNBA's Chicago Sky. Rollins, a Winter Haven native, has been named as an assistant coach for the Chicago Sky staff according to the Chicago Tribune....

Tags: Women's National Basketball Association, Chicago Tribune, Washington Mystics

Great name, even greater young woman: Elena Delle Donne

After 6 decades, Mom hangs up the red pen

Nearly 60 years after she first stood in front of a classroom, my mother will retire from teaching Tuesday. She began in 1954 with a freshman English section at Miami University in Ohio where she was a graduate student. She went on to teach nursery...

Tags: ESPN (tv network), Teaching and Learning, Basketball, Old Town School of Folk Music, High Schools

Sky picks Delaware star Delle Donne

In Monday’s WNBA draft, the Chicago Sky took a player whom a rival coach had described as peerless. No, not Brittney Griner. With the second overall pick in the draft, the Sky chose Delaware’s Elena Delle Donne, a 6-foot, 5-inch forward...

Tags: Basketball, College Sports, Tulsa Shock, Women's National Basketball Association, College Basketball

Brittney Griner, Elena Delle Donne are picked 1-2 in WNBA draft

Baylor's Brittney Griner, Delaware's Elena Delle Donne and Notre Dame's Skylar Diggins were the top three picks in Monday night's WNBA draft. No surprises there, but still plenty of excitement among the players, the teams that selected them and the...

Tags: Basketball, College Sports, Tulsa Shock, Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens, National Collegiate Athletic Association

Suffolk's Sugar Rodgers 14th overall pick in WNBA draft

Suffolk's Sugar Rodgers, who starred at Georgetown, was selected 14th overall in the WNBA draft Monday night by the Minnesota Lynx. Rodgers, who attended Kings Fork before setting Georgetown records for points and steals, was the nation's No. 4 scorer...

Tags: Women's National Basketball Association, Phoenix Mercury, Georgetown

Could Diggins stay near home?

Will Notre Dame basketball star and South Bend native Skylar Diggins stay in the Midwest? Tonight, we will learn where the Washington High School grad's professional basketball career will take her. Diggins is expected to be one of the top picks in...

Tags: Women's National Basketball Association, Phoenix Mercury, Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Swin Cash Back In Area As Part Of Book Tour

Tags: Journey (music group), Basketball, College Sports, University of Connecticut Women's Basketball Program, Big East Conference

10th game is the charm for Sky

UNCASVILLE, Conn. -- The Sky have been one of the biggest disappointments in the WNBA this season. After upgrading the roster with Swin Cash, Ruth Riley and Ticha Penicheiro, injuries have crushed them. But that doesn't mean they've given up their...

Tags: Basketball, Women's National Basketball Association, Mike Thibault, Tina Charles, Swin Cash