Women's Hoops Blog

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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Sad news from Mel Greenberg: Mary Garber, one of the United States' first women sportswriters, has died at the age of 92.

You can read a profile over at the Women's Sports Foundation, and I'm sure we'll get more insight from Mel, but here are some of Garber's career highlights:
She sounds like a woman I would have enjoyed sitting down to dinner with:
The Winston-Salem Journal reported Sunday that a minister was making the rounds at the Brookridge Retirement Village where Garber was a resident, and he asked what she had in mind for a spiritual reward in heaven.

"Football season," she said.
I bet that VaTech field goal that cost North Carolina a victory on Saturday drove her crazy....