Women's Hoops Blog

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Thursday, September 15, 2005

In the USA Today, Christine Brennan (writing from DC, not Uncasville) bemoans the lack of print media covering the WNBA Finals.

She also interviews Billie Jean King, who credits her victory over Bobby Riggs with empowering millions of women. (Must... avoid... snarky... retort...)

Here is the print media roll call from the casino last night:

Connecticut:
Hartford Courant: 1 (Anthony only; Jacobs is recovering from heart surgery)
Manchester J-I: 1 (Erickson, possibly Smith also)
New London Day: 2 (Griffen, DiMauro)
New Haven Register: 2 (Tucker, Solomon)
Norwich Bulletin: 1 (Brice)
Waterbury Rep-Am: 1 (Cleaveland)
Sacramento:
Sacramento Bee: 2 (Arrington, Voison)
National/Other:
Boston Globe: 1 (Bickelhaupt)
KC Star/ESPN.com: 1 (Voepel)
NY Times: 1 (Lena, not yet retired)
Philly Inquirer: 1 (Greenberg)
Sports Illustrated: 1 (Rushin)
USA Today: 1 (Dixon)
Seems like a pretty good showing. Excellent local coverage for each team, plus a decent amount of national coverage.