
Chantel Jennings
Senior Writer at The Athletic
Podcast Host at No Offseason: The Athletic Women's Basketball Show
Senior women's basketball writer at @TheAthletic | Previously: Knight-Wallace Fellowship, ESPN, The Michigan Daily | [email protected] | she/her
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Chantel Jennings
MINNEAPOLIS - It was fitting on Saturday afternoon that after Seimone Augustus' "Naismith Hall of Fame" accolade was added to her retired jersey number in the Target Center rafters, she took to the mic at center court, and among the many people she thanked and stories she told was that of her own veteran teammate and basketball mentor - Tamika Williams-Jeter.
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1 week ago |
au.sports.yahoo.com | Chantel Jennings
MINNEAPOLIS — Hours after politically-motivated shootings on Saturday left one Minnesota state lawmaker and her spouse dead and another and his wife injured, the Minnesota Lynx took the court for a home game against the Los Angeles Sparks that coach Cheryl Reeve said “feels pretty meaningless.”The Lynx held a moment of silence before the game at the Target Center, located roughly 11 miles away from Brooklyn Park, a suburb of Minneapolis.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Chantel Jennings
MINNEAPOLIS - Hours after politically-motivated shootings on Saturday left one Minnesota state lawmaker and her spouse dead and another and his wife injured, the Minnesota Lynx took the court for a home game against the Los Angeles Sparks that coach Cheryl Reeve said "feels pretty meaningless."The Lynx held a moment of silence before the game at the Target Center, located roughly 11 miles away from Brooklyn Park, a suburb of Minneapolis.
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2 weeks ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Chantel Jennings
For decades, women’s basketball was dominated almost exclusively by UConn and Tennessee, and then, for many years, only UConn’s dynasty thrived. In recent years, other contenders have emerged periodically, but none have challenged the crown quite as well as South Carolina. AdvertisementUntil this past season, the Gamecocks and Dawn Staley had arguably taken the mantle from the Huskies and Geno Auriemma.
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1 month ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Chantel Jennings
South Carolina coach Dawn Staley’s book “Uncommon Favor,” a memoir in which Staley recounts growing up in North Philadelphia, playing college and pro hoops, and coaching in the college ranks, was released this week. read an advanced copy and chatted with Staley about the book. What made now the right time to write this book? People have been asking me to write a book for a very long time. Over the past three years, I’ve thought more about it.
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RT @ScottDochterman: Long in the works and published today: At a ‘crisis moment,’ women’s college basketball officiating needs a way forw…

As the sport hits new highs and breaks records, the state of women's college basketball officiating feels more important than ever. What are the issues? And, what comes next? "This is a five-to-10-year fix. And we're nowhere close to starting that." https://t.co/o3Mm1ECUQG

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