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I remember my first in-person press conference as a credentialed WNBA media member when the  Chicago Sky faced the Connecticut Sun in the 2021 WNBA Semifinals. Despite my professional past covering the NBA, NFL, and Major League Baseball, I felt a rush of anxiety that was foreign to me. Given the ample number of household names and international stars like Candace Parker, Emma Meesseman, and Kahleah Copper, it’s not hard to understand why. As the kids say, it just hit different covering a league I was infatuated with as a kid.  The jitters wore off with the help of battle-tested […]

When the clock hits the five-minute mark with a margin of five points or less, stars made for the moment tend to raise the partition glass between them and other players. For Notre Dame women’s basketball, that star would be none other than Hannah Hidalgo, who connected on a midrange pull-up with 1.9 seconds left in regulation to serve the Fighting Irish an early-season statement win against USC. The junior guard tallied 22 points on 8-for-18 shooting, seven rebounds, two assists, and five steals.  “This is a big win for us; this is a big win for our confidence and […]

With a few games in the books in a fresh college basketball season, a few top programs are soaring above expectations, while others are failing to meet the moment with what it requires.  In the last decade, Duke’s women’s basketball team has missed the NCAA tournament twice.  Given how the team has started the 2025-26 season, this will be just the third time.  <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>This Women’s basketball game between <a href=”https://twitter.com/DukeWBB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@DukeWBB</a> and <a href=”https://twitter.com/WVUWBB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@WVUWBB</a> is crazy ejections from both teams and West Virginia has only 5 players left for the second half <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/Duke?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#Duke</a> <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/WestVirginia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#WestVirginia</a> <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/NCAAWBB?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#NCAAWBB</a> […]