ICS opponent: "Would you please let me win, because this is my first game against a player (with your rating)". What the fuck is wrong with people. Would you like a FIFA peace award to go with that?

It's funny that the meaningless FIFA "peace award" gains real value if they take it back from that piece of shit.

Ionescu's .913 FT percentage is second all-time. If she hit her next 200 straight, her percentage rises to .934, still .003 lower than Delle Donne's.

In basketball terms, Cher posterized Karoline Leavitt.

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Toronto's uniform is boring, but I like it more than Golden State's.

The Rule 5 draft giveth and the Rule 5 draft taketh away.

At the largest kiddie chess tournaments, they award around 30 trophies that won't fit in a car, about 100 more wieldy, and 1000 FIFA trinkets.

In exchange for the #3 pick in the 2026 WNBA draft, Los Angeles got one season of Kia Nurse plus a 2024 pick that turned into Rickea Jackson. Mock drafts put Gianna Kneepkens between #5 and #10, no way LA gets her at #20. With the 8th pick, Golden State takes Kneepkens, and give me a jersey number.

Jersey prices so good I'm tempted to get a Jocytè (though she hasn't suited up yet) and a Linskens (though she got half a cup of coffee).

When Utah forward Alissa Pili became a subject of WNBA draft curiosity, the common question was "who's she gonna guard?", which we answered with a question "who's gonna guard her?". I suppose the same still be said about Iowa State's Audi Crooks, though she's significantly taller and wider.

I'd wager the Liberty owners grew bored after winning then losing a championship, and a fire sale is imminent. Their free agent retention should tell us whether I'm right or wrong.

Groveling for media credentials to Seton Hall at San Francisco and at Pacific this weekend. How times have changed — the media officials at those schools used to feed me on game nights.

Cal 20 Pacific 14 5:35 Tigers haven't scored in 9 minutes.

Pacific 12 Cal 5 4:05 During this 8-0 run, they look like the best Pacific team in 15 years.

Lenny Wilkens and Richie Adubato passed, and I wondered who'd be third if they do go in threes. Michael Ray Richardson — NBA All-Star stuck with the Knicks in his best years; even exiled to Golden State in '82— coached two CBA championship teams, twice coach of the year in the Canadian league.

Who has what would've been Los Angeles's first-round draft pick in the 2026 WNBA draft, and whom did the Sparks get in trade?

UCLA 68 UCSB 37 3:34 3d If you'd told me when Betts was a Stanford freshman and Kneepkens a Utah freshman that they'd be great together as seniors, I would've said: "Where?!".

I thought I might attend Oklahoma vs. UCLA in Sacramento. UCLA is the closest thing I have to a team, made up of Pac-12 pieces from Stanford, Utah, Oregon, Oregon St., Washington St.

Anyone else use the I VOTED sticker like a lint roller for cat hair?

Utah freshman Evelina Otto is from Riga, Latvia, where the main street or city square should be named for The Magician of Riga, world chess champion (1960-1961) Mikhail Tal. I spent a year of my life studying his games — a misguided and useless year, but we all want to be Tal.

Utah's starters today include a player I've never heard of. I didn't think I'd lose track this fast.

The University of West Georgia women's basketball team won its athletic department's crowdfunding competition — in part because they're the only UWG team with boosters in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Los Angeles Daily News said "Charlisse Leger-Walker's time has come for UCLA women's basketball", illustrated with a picture of Leger-Walker in a WaSU uniform playing against UCLA, and a 2010 calendar from her first year of eligibility.

South Korea gave that idiot a CROWN? Did they engrave "Nobel Peace Prize" on it, too?

Vanderbilt has a guard named Chandler Bing. He could be Dave Bing's son, and no one would notice.

Whisper of a rumor that USC coach Gottlieb is a candidate for the Liberty job. She's from Scarsdale, and worked at Syracuse. I'm for this becoming a full-blown rumor.

There are a bunch of morons who are saying aloud "see how much better the ghost runner rule is?".

Obama joked about this, remember.

Dunno about other ballyards, but they don't sell scorecards at Oracle Park these days. I feel bad for last night's fans at American Family Field who didn't get the unique thrill of scoring that 8-6-2 as it happened. That's a scorecard you keep (er, if the Brewers had won).

I was wrong about Dallas not firing Koclanes, because that would make them look like shitty, quick-triggered bosses for whom a better coach would not want to work. If Brondello takes the job, I'm wrong about both parts.

Be strong, Norwegian Nobel committee. Do not give in to that piece of shit.

I read it's National Coaches Day *and* National Bobcats Day. Montana State coach Binford isn't paying for any of her drinks tonight.

I don't think the basketball gods will smite us if we opt not to watch Indiana at Las Vegas gm. 2 after that Phoenix at Minnesota tilt.

No one should be surprised Dallas kept Koclanes. If they'd canned him, who would feel comfortable taking that job for a trigger-happy front office?

The Phoenix Suns were a model NBA franchise throughout the '80s and the early '90s. Today they're including an employment contract clause that prohibits employees from suing them.

CBS Sports' Jack Maloney suggested the Valkyries grab UCLA's Gianna Kneepkens with #8. Finally, a Valkyries jersey for me to wear.

Glad ESPN showed that graphic about Indiana's last lead at 33-30, because it had been so long that I thought 86-85 might've been their first.

Above and beyond the call: The staffs of Chase Center and SAP Center for moving tons of shit around to make SAP look and feel as much like Chase as they did.

Given antifa is an idea or a state of being (whatever you want to call it), and not a group of people with a secret clubhouse, does it follow that you might be labeled a terrorist just for sharing that idea?

People talk about the Valkyries building incredible fan support in year one. It's a village of followers of others: Warriors, Lasers, Pioneers, Spiders, Monarchs, Cardinal, Golden Bears, even SF Giants. Folks around here waited a long time for the Valkyries to arrive, and then they were good!

At least the commissioner should've learned how to pronounce "Nakase" before handing her the Coach of the Year award.

Fuffyrarrar is a good name for whichever feathered dinosaur is discovered next.

I think I'm through. This season to has only been fun while Roberts' team was visiting, and I was wearing a media lanyard. Jesusfuck, what is *that*, obscuring almost everything past halfline.

In line at SAP Center, woman said: "Are you keeping stats tonight? Of course you are. I sit behind you at Chase—every time I look, you're writing something down."

Golden State clinched #8 on Sept. 4 at 23-18, while #4 Phoenix was 27-14. The Valkyries could not reach #4, but charged playoff ticket buyers for two games.

Valkyries front office is a criminal enterprise, hitting one's credit card for the playoff maximum two home games (if GSV wasn't in reach of #4, is it actionable?), and if they only play one, the balance is rolled over for a game to be played next June.