Bangor Daily News :

Players from California, New Jersey to play for UMaine women’s basketball team

Sheraton Jones of Anaheim Hills, Calif., and Kianna Mayers of Irvington, N.J., have completed their National Letters of Intent and will be joining the University of Maine women’s basketball team in the fall of 2013, head coach Richard Barron announced in a press release Thursday. Jones, a 5-10 . . . Read More

Journal-Gazette & Times-Courier:

'She's a winner,' Burke says of new EIU women's basketball coach

Introduced as Eastern Illinois’ new women’s basketball coach on Thursday, Ohio State assistant Debbie Black gave just a hint of what fans might expect under her watch. “I’m a coach who coaches to personnel not a system,” Black said at her press conference. “But we are not going to be passive. We . . . Read More

Chattanooga Times Free Press:

UTC's Jim Foster has national role

While serving as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's basketball coach is Jim Foster's newest and primary professional responsibility, it's not his only one. Hired by new UTC athletic director David Blackburn last week, Foster is still putting his coaching staff together. And he is at. . . Read More

Times Record News:

Mustangs add D-I basketball transfer

The reigning Lone Star Conference champion Midwestern State women’s basketball team has announced the addition of transfer Nicole Smallwood. Smallwood is a 5-foot-8 guard who appeared in nine games for Division I Missouri State last season. She retains three years of eligibility. Smallwood played . . . Read More

The Guardian Nigeria:

A three-pointer’s decades of romance with basketball

For more than two decades Tayelolu Adeniyi-Mash has been involved in basketball different capacities, and she has never at any moment regretted embracing the game. From her primary school days at Methodist Primary School, Akure, to her secondary education at St Dominic’s High School also in Akure, . . . Read More

New York Post:

High school basketball star danced with sisters before shooting death

She danced before she died. The final hours of tragic high school basketball star Tayshana "Chicken" Murphy were remembered by her sister in tearful testimony today in the Manhattan murder trial of two men blamed in her senseless shooting. "My sister talked me into coming downstairs with her a . . . Read More

Southeast Missourian:

Jackson will not return to Margenthaler's staff

Southeast Missouri State women's basketball coach Ty Margenthaler had the same coaching staff during his first two years at the helm of the Redhawks. That will change during Margenthaler's third season in 2013-14. Dionnah Jackson, who has been a Southeast assistant the past three years, is leaving. . . Read More

The Age:

To go gold, Opals must walk the walk, says Joyce the voice

New Opals coach Brendan Joyce says there was too much talk of winning a gold medal before the London Olympics, declaring it is time for the team to ''walk the walk''. Joyce will be officially installed as Opals coach on Thursday, replacing Carrie Graf, who guided the team to a bronze medal at last . . . Read More