‘The quality of play has just dramatically improved over the last decade,’ Kerr said. I think the timing is great, given the level of interest in the sport and the quality of the women’s game’
Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith has covered women’s basketball nationally for more than three decades. A 2024 inductee into the U.S. Basketball Writer’s Hall of Fame, Smith has worked for ESPN.com, The Athletic, the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as Pac-12.com and WNBA.com. She is the 2017 recipient of the Jake Wade Media Award from the Collegiate Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) and was named the Mel Greenberg Media Award winner by the WBCA in 2019.
Posted inFeatures, Golden State Valkyries, Latest News, WNBA
Sights and sounds from WNBA expansion day at the Chase Center
‘Right team, right place, right time’
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Column: WNBA in the Bay will be worth the long wait
VanDerveer: ‘I think it’s going to be awesome’
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‘This is America’s game and now they’re included’: Sights and sounds from California’s flag football, now an official high school sport
The IX: A very special Flag Football Monday with Michelle Smith, Sept. 11, 2023
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Institutional Knowledge: Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer talks about grief and excitement in move to ACC
‘You invest 40 years into something, and to watch it unravel in 40 minutes, it’s sad’
Posted inFeatures, NCAA Basketball, Pac-12
Institutional Knowledge: For now, women’s basketball is along for the realignment ride
Football moves have created major instability for women’s basketball, other NCAA sports
Posted inFeatures, International Basketball, Team USA Basketball, World
Institutional Knowledge: FIBA looking to elevate its own World Cup in soccer’s shadow
The FIFA Women’s World Cup has been a major success with major growth, and now it is FIBA’s turn to work on following suit.
Posted inFeatures, WNBA
Institutional Knowledge: When the WNBA expands, it has to be Oakland
Column: With multiple interested parties, and a painful history of having the rug pulled out, Oakland deserves this
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Institutional Knowledge: Why did this year’s WNBA cuts resonate so much?
‘I hope we see a roster expansion soon because I feel like that’s low-hanging fruit’
Posted inFeatures, Phoenix Mercury, WNBA
Institutional Knowledge: Vanessa Nygaard heading into second season looking for normalcy
‘It’s like writing. The first draft is always crap. I’m doing a lot of things differently.’
