Emma Baccellieri
Staff Writer at Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated staff writer: MLB + women's basketball // Say hi: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
si.com | Emma Baccellieri
Napheesa Collier works best in context. Any individual highlight might show a basket, yet miss the point. The most impressive part of her game is what she does away from the ball: The Lynx forward has an uncanny ability to establish her position in the right place at the right time. It’s a matter of practiced reading and cutting and screening, but it’s a matter of instinct, too. “She has this innate understanding of the game,” says Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve. “All of her movements make sense.
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1 month ago |
soda-fountain.com | Emma Baccellieri
I’ve never had the pleasure of drinking Tab. I wasn’t around for its heyday in the ’60s and ’70s, when it became popular as the first diet soda from Coca-Cola, and even as a devoted soda drinker with a fairly diverse palate, I had no idea that it was still in production until just a few years ago. It became harder to find over the decades: It didn’t get the advertising shine or widespread shelf placement of, say, Diet Coke.
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1 month ago |
si.com | Emma Baccellieri
The Connecticut Huskies do not cut down nets when other programs cut down nets. They do not climb ladders when they win a conference tournament. No one touches scissors when they make the Final Four. The players understand the standard when they commit: Play somewhere else if you want to cut down a net for anything less than a national title. This is a place where success is measured only in championships.
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1 month ago |
si.com | Emma Baccellieri
TAMPA — The South Carolina Gamecocks played the first quarter on Friday in exactly the same fashion they had played to get there, which is to say, incredibly, frustratingly disjointed for a team so deep and talented. The No. 1 seed Gamecocks made everything look difficult in the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight. They started playing much the same way in the Final Four. And then, suddenly, they stopped.
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1 month ago |
si.com | Emma Baccellieri
Cori Close began her first press conference en route to the Final Four with a clarification. The UCLA Bruins coach had seen her team described as the first in program history to make it this far in the tournament. And it was, in fact, the first UCLA women’s team ever to reach the NCAA Final Four. But there was a bit of history lost in the space between those sentences. “It’s actually not correct,” Close said of the idea that UCLA had never been to the women’s Final Four.
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