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WNBL: Lightning sneak second win
ADELAIDE snuck its nose in front at the game's death tonight to stave off a near-miss upset by Perth Lynx 74-69, taking its record at the WNBL hub in north Queensland to 2-0 with another thrilling win.
WNBL: Eastern Mavericks can take a bow
SOUTH Australian junior girls basketball traditionally is dominated by Sturt and Forestville but it was the far less-fancied Eastern Mavericks which could take a justifiable bow tonight as Melbourne Boomers swamped WNBL title favourite Southside 89-72 in Townsville.
WNBL: Lightning surprise Caps in season-opener
NEW Adelaide Lightning captain Steph Talbot tonight produced an "unwanted" triple-double, dominating proceedings while leading her team to a surprise WNBL season-opening win over defending champion Canberra.
It's a flyer for Southside
LET'S not kid ourselves. The WNBL pulling off even a "hub" season and landing a deal where all games are televised is a massive positive in a 2020 where "positive " is not a word to be thrown around loosely. But really, can we just hand the title to Southside?
Time to rally behind fallen Opals superstar
THE sight of Julie Nykiel inbounding a baseline ball after an opposition basket, sprinting up the split-line and receiving a pass back for a layup was one of the most common on courts across SA and Australia for more than a decade in the 70s-80s.
Stuff I've heard lately
BEEN a little busy working on a couple of major projects but I've heard some stuff which I'm happy to pass along, the biggest news being Bryce Cotton's likely return to Perth as told in a story from Rome today by Emiliano Carchia.
Bullying is alive and thriving in sport
FORMER WNBL Head Sally Phillips partially breaks her silence on what drove her from the role:
On Friday 24th April 2020, some old wounds were reopened as I read about Raelene Castle and the ‘abhorrent’ bullying she was subjected to at the hands of “faceless people.”
COVID-19? The Podcast!
WE couldn't stop ourselves! Brad Rosen and I jumped on the phones and decided you simply HAD to know what we're thinking. We could change the world! Or, you know, not.
Podcast farewell: Good, Bad and Covid-19
BRAD Rosen and I offer up our encore podcast, reviewing the NBL and WNBL seasons of 2019-20 and all that went down.
Chibba: Life in COVID-19 isolation
THE WNBL's 2016 Betty Watson Youth Player of the Year, former Lightning and Lynx guard/forward Alex Ciabattoni has been playing in Italy, arguably now the epicentre of the COVID-19 virus.
