Candace Parker News

To say that Baylor freshman Brittney Griner has been anointed the next big thing in women's college basketball would be an understatement of gigantic proportions.

Give Angie Bjorklund credit for putting the whole truth in her advertising. The Tennessee junior guard's sales pitch to her fellow students could've been all Lady Vols.

If you think about it, the battle for the 2011 recruiting class really is a battle for control of the subsequent cycles of NCAA championships.

The most talked about player at the Big 12 women's basketball media day was nowhere to be found Wednesday.

It's doubtful a Division I women's basketball player has had a more productive few months than UConn senior center Tina Charles .

UConn's Tina Charles, competing against Stanford's Jayne Appel in the first half in an NCAA tournament semifinal last season, is working hard to keep coach Geno Auriemma happy -- with the Huskies and in attempting to make the U.S. national team.

When Indiana's Tamika Catchings is flying around the court seeming to be in about three places at once, she seems superhuman.

Angel McCoughtry scored 20 points to lead the U.S. basketball team past UMMC Ekaterinburg 78-63 Sunday and captured the tournament title.

Minnesota Lynx guard and South Charleston High School graduate Renee Montgomery will join the United States women's basketball team as it travels to Russia to play in the Ekaterinburg International Invitational from Friday through Sunday.

Angel McCoughtry scored 17 points the USA received double-digit scoring from Sylvia Fowles, Asjha Jones, Tina Charles and Shameka Christon to open the Ekaterinburg International Invitational Friday evening with an impressive 100-81 victory over the Czech professional team ZVVC UKA Prague .

Current senior Tina Charles was one of five players with UConn ties named to a the 13-player USA Basketball women's national team that will participate in the Ekaterinburg International Invite starting Friday in Russia.

There was good news from Candace Parker after her fourth day in camp Monday with the U.S. women's national basketball team.

Here is the news you've been waiting for from USA Basketball's own mouth.... "After training for six days in Washington, D.C., 2009-12 USA Basketball Women's National Team members and Olympic gold medalists Sue Bird , Sylvia Fowles and Candace Parker will lead a USA squad in Russia in the four-team 2009 Ekaterinburg International Invitational.

From Anne Donovan and Katrina McClain to Lisa Leslie and Tina Thompson, the U.S. women's basketball team has always been able to wear down its opponents with its depth at the post.

Coach Geno Auriemma was at ease on the first day of the U.S. women's basketball training camp.

The USA Basketball Women's National Team has announced that American University's Bender Arena will be the host location for the team's six-day domestic training camp in preparation for next year's FIBA World Championships.

It wasn't too surprising since the Wednesday practice resembled a UConn alumni game with Sue Bird going head-to-head at the point against Renee Montgomery and Swin Cash and Maya Moore battling for rebounds.

Since Geno Auriemma was named head coach of the Olympic team in April - I was at a Boston hotel eating , without my computer , trying to get away when it was announced - I have been looking forward to attending his first training camp as Olympic coach.

PHOENIX a ' Candace Parker had 24 points and 18 rebounds, Lisa Leslie scored 20 points, and the Los Angeles Sparks forced a deciding third game of the WNBA's Western Conference finals with an 87-76 victory over the Phoenix Mercury on Friday night.

When Misty May-Treanor reunites with Keri Walsh and returns to the beach volleyball tour this Friday in Glendale, Arizona, they may just look like two more -- yawn -- moms looking for athletic prize money.