It really, truly stuns me that the WNBA is so incompetent when it comes to using the most basic tool of the internet: EMAIL ALERTS!

I mean, I sign up for them on yahoo and such to keep up on women's bball, but there is SO much stuff out there that's not caught by those search engines. A little help, folks!

How hard is it to collect emails of fans and then send "WNBA In the News" alerts? 'cause then, maybe I wouldn't have to follow a Rebkell post about a Cappie Hair Style poll to discover that Annie Myers was profiled by a "UCLA publication."

From the Q & A: Growing Up

Bruins In The Real World: Growing up in a family with 11 children must have been quite the experience. Be honest now, who was the best athlete among the Meyers’ siblings, and why?

Ann Meyers Drysdale: My sister Patty, the oldest of the 11, was probably the best athlete in the family. If you think David and I were competitive, she was C-O-M-P-E-TA-T-I-V-E. She played EVERYTHING and was AWESOME. We played AAU basketball together, she was an unbelievable volleyball player and she was also a very good softball player, competing professionally in the 1970s.

About those AAU days...

Playing in AAU and competing in tournaments in the 70’s was a bare bones experience. “I got a uniform. Period,” said Blazejowski. “We never got mileage. We never got lunch. You played all day. Then you’d drive home, and then if you had a game in the morning, you get in the car and go right back out there. I believe they were double elimination,” said Blazejowski of the Pennsylvania tournament. “You were playing, players were sitting, resting, getting a hamburger, coming back and playing again. It was just like, ‘They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?’ (The classic movie about marathon dancing during the Great Depression.)

While the ‘77 tourney was in their backyard, the Californians had a to meet serious expenses if they wanted to go to Pennsylvania and defend their title in ‘78. “A lot of us had to go round to different business people we know and say, “Hey, can you donate $100 for a trip that’s going to cost us a total of $5000 for the hotel, plane fare, rental car and food?’ Which was a huge amount of money.” The team slept two to four to a room and crammed themselves into rental cars, which got the attention of the local constabulary. “Patty got stopped because we had like three people in the trunk,” recalled Meyers, grinning at the memory.