Women's Hoops Blog

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Former Fresno State v-ball coach Lindy Vivas has won her lawsuit against the troubled-- no, very troubled-- school.

Vivas was fired in 2004; she said she got mistreated, and then canned, because the macho administrators couldn't take her work on behalf of her players and team-- and because they thought she was gay. The jury agreed, awarding $5.8 million.

Part of the case involved when and how many v-ball games would take place in the new Save Mart Center, which was then mostly reserved for men's and women's basketball. Former Fresno AD Scott Johnson and soap opera villain very much former Fresno women's hoops coach Stacy Johnson-Klein testified: one juror called both Johnson and Johnson-Klein "not credible."