Something's in the water. Newsday writes about athletes returning to their sport after pregnancy, and now the Washington Post has an extensive piece about Brenda Frese and the steps she's taking this season as she coaches while pregnant with twins.

Of course many women must learn to juggle childbirth and workplace, but coaching high-level college basketball -- an increasingly competitive, high-profile, lucrative sport -- is unusually demanding, physically and psychologically. And the coaches interviewed for this story agree that someone who does it successfully is a rare bird.

Disappointingly enough, it looks like there's a new form of negative recruiting:

There are downsides. Rival coaches, Frese says, are using her pregnancy to persuade potential players to avoid coming to play for the Terps. "Some people try to spin it as 'How long will she be out?' That's a terrible thing. We're talking about two miracles of life here, not about a basketball game. It's irritating."