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In a
recent interview Becky Hammon, who plays for the San Antonio Silver Stars had some very smart things to say about feminism. She's an amazing and very smart ball player, but her response to the following question made me love her even more.
Silver Stars Nation: What would you say to younger girls that play basketball but yet do not support women’s and girls basketball as a whole?
Becky: I think that is one of the saddest things I come across. For a couple reasons.
First of all, lets not forget our history ladies. It wasn’t so long ago that women weren’t allowed to compete in sports. So many unfulfilled ...
Posted by Justine at 20:56, April 2nd, 2010 under Basketball, Feminism, Sport |
I have a mountain of work to get through before I head out
on tour. But all I can think about is the third game of the
WNBA finals, which takes place in Indianapolis today at 4PM (US Eastern time). So far this has been the best WNBA finals series I've ever seen and I've been following the WNBA since 2000.
The two best teams in the league,
Indiana and
Phoenix are battling it out. Indiana is renowned for their defense and Phoenix for their offense. Though both teams have been proving in this series that they're not exactly slouches at the other end.
They've won one game each both played in Phoenix. The first game was ...
Posted by Justine at 12:36, October 4th, 2009 under Basketball, Sport |
Back in early August, Doret Canon of the wonderful blog,
The Happy Nappy Bookseller, wrote to thank me for linking to her and ”put in a request for a YA novel featuring girls playing sports. Any sport will do.” I misread her as asking for recommendations for such YA novels when she was in fact asking me to write ‘em. (What can I say August was kind of mental for me.) I was ashamed to discover that all I could think of was Catherine Murdock’s Dairy Queen series and my own How To Ditch Your Fairy. It transpired that Doret knows more about YA sports books than anyone else on the planet. We soon got to talking about books, ...
Posted by Justine at 0:30, September 22nd, 2009 under Basketball, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Young Adult literature |
Posted by Justine at 1:07, June 1st, 2009 under Basketball, Publishing business, Sport, State of the World |
Posted by Justine at 14:30, May 22nd, 2009 under Basketball, Frippery, New York City/USA |
Posted by Justine at 9:56, May 21st, 2009 under 1930s NYC novel, Basketball, New York City/USA, Research |
I wonder why it is that women in sports get so little attention. Unless they're tennis or golf players and pretty. Or winning gold medals during the Olympics.
I've been following the
women's world cup online, but apparently I don't have much company online or offline where
very few folks have been going to their games. I don't get it. The NZ v Pakistan game sounds like it was amazing. Wish I'd been home to see it. ((Here's hoping the Kiwis can crush the Poms in the final. Guess, I'll find out when I wake up.)) Games were $5 each or $35 for a pass to see all of them. Standards were high yet attendance was crap.
And then there's ...
Posted by Justine at 0:44, March 21st, 2009 under Basketball, Cricket, New York City/USA, Sport, State of the World, Sydney/Australia |
The New York Liberty
won the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals. It was an ugly win. An ugly game. The only grace notes were Deanna Nolan's gorgeous shooting---I swear she stays up in the air for seconds at a time, she looks great even when she misses---the great turnout, and the fact that we won.
I didn't think it was possible for me to hate Bill Laimbeer more than I do. But his performance tonight pushed my hate a few notches upward. How he managed not to get a delay of game call or a technical I will never understand. Sit down, Bill!
Later today I will be in Larchmont, which is a mere twenty minutes from Grand Central:
Saturday, ...
Posted by Justine at 0:27, September 27th, 2008 under Basketball, Cons & Other Gatherings, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Sport |
Posted by Justine at 12:40, September 23rd, 2008 under Basketball, Cons & Other Gatherings, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Liar, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport, Writing goals & milestones, Young Adult literature |
I stopped studying maths in Year 7. Before that I'd made a bit of an effort but in my first year of high school (in New South Wales high school starts in Year 7) I downed tools. I was bored, annoyed, and couldn't see the point so I quit. Technically I kept going to maths class---it was compulsory until the end of Year 10---but I failed each year and was never made to repeat. I didn't learn anything new after Year 6.
At the time I thought it was excellent that I could get away with it. In class I read novels under the desk. I never studied and finished my maths exams quicker than anyone else cause I guessed all ...
Posted by Justine at 0:00, September 9th, 2008 under Basketball, Bloggery/Internetty Stuff, Excuses, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Praising, Science, Sport, State of the World, Sydney/Australia |
Scott and me has run away to finish our novels at an undisclosed location. Posting from behind the walls of our hidden bunker may be intermittent and on the shortish side. Book must be finished on the soonish.
In the meantime, it is
conclusive, "monster" and "white-ant" are verbs only in Australia. For confused non-Australians a white ant is a termite. Thus to white-ant someone is to undermine them: to bore away at their foundations, you know, like termites do. Is most useful verb.
Thanks for the Cadel Evans commiserations. Second two years running. Surely next year.
Yes, I is stoked that the Liberty are in the second place in the Eastern conference. Here's hoping we come out after the Olympics break ...
Posted by Justine at 0:00, July 29th, 2008 under Basketball, Bloggery/Internetty Stuff, Liar, Sport, Tour de France, Travelling |
Candace Parker played. She played very well indeed. I was impressed. ((She's not dirty in defence unlike, say, Lisa Leslie or Delisha Milton-Jones.))
And
WE WON!!
And we are now a mere game out of first place in the East.
Life is very good indeed.
Thank you,
New York Liberty, for improving in so many different ways. We have post players. We have two good point guards. We have DE-FENCE. In fact, other than Indiana, I think we're the best defensive team in the WNBA. I love our full-court pressure. I love the many ways we made LA turn over the ball. Twas bliss.
Now all we have to do is shoot a bit better and we'll be perfect.
Too exhausted ...
Posted by Justine at 0:47, July 26th, 2008 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport |
The WNBA has
handed down the suspensions for Tuesday's brawl. I know many are unhappy about the lenience towards Candace Parker in particular. But for extremely selfish reasons I am very very very glad. Because this means I get to see her play on Friday. Woo hoo!
What's making me cranky is the total absence of anything said about the abysmal refs. Where's their punishment?
Update: Though I'll admit I am very nervous about Leslie and Parker being so rested before we play then in the Garden.
Posted by Justine at 16:41, July 24th, 2008 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport, State of the World |
Posted by Justine at 11:55, July 23rd, 2008 under Basketball, Liar, Sport |
I just watched a hard fought game between the LA Sparks and Detroit Shock that ended in
a real fight. The ending was horrible with three players and one coach ejected and, I'm sure, lots of unwelcome attention from the press which ordinarily completely ignores the WNBA. Gosh, maybe now even the New York Times will cover a game.
I was most shocked by Detroit Assistant Coach Mahorn, who is male and well over 7ft tall 6ft 10inches, pushing over Lisa Leslie. He needs to be suspended for the rest of the season. You do not touch the opposing team's players ever. Under any circumstances.
But mostly I blame the referees. There were several incidents leading up to the fight between ...
Posted by Justine at 22:26, July 22nd, 2008 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Ranting, Sport, State of the World |
Atlanta Dream: 91; Chicago Sky: 84
The first win for the Atlanta Dream has made me very happy I can't imagine how thrilled the Dream fans are. They have had the longest losing streak (0-17) in WNBA history without actually being a bad team. Quite a few of those losses were thrillers. I know. I watched the game where the New York Liberty barely beat them.
I think it's astonishing and wonderful that more than 8,000 people have shown up for every one of those games even when they'd lost ten, fifteen, seventeen in a row. And now they have their first win. Woo hoo!! And w00t! It's good for Atlanta and it's good for the whole league. May it be ...
Posted by Justine at 21:52, July 5th, 2008 under Basketball, Praising, Sport |
Posted by Justine at 0:00, June 25th, 2008 under Basketball, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Sport |
New York Liberty: 105
Phoenix Mercury: 72
BEST GAME EVER
Without
Penny Taylor the Mercury are nothing. We held them to their season low. We shut
Diana Taurasi and
Cappie Pondexter down.
I love my team.
That is all.
Well, except that WE REALLY REALLY REALLY rule.
Did I mention I love the New York Liberty?
Posted by Justine at 23:14, June 22nd, 2008 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport |
Apropos of
Becky Hammon playing for Russia comes
this article from The New York Times about all the foreign nationals that are playing for the US Olympic squad:
Marching into Beijing Stadium under the American flag this August will be a kayaker from Poland, table tennis players from China, a triathlete from New Zealand, a world-champion distance runner from Kenya and a gold-medal-winning equestrian from Australia.
Though I am shocked, SHOCKED to my core, that an Australian would desert our fine country to play for another nation especially when they're a good shot a gold medal. How are we going to keep coming third in the Olympics despite our small population if the big countries steal all our Olympians? Huh? ...
Posted by Justine at 0:00, June 15th, 2008 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport, State of the World |
There's controversy right now in US women's basketball because an American player, Becky Hammon, is going to play for Russia in the Olymics. The coach of the US Olympic squad, Anne Donovan, has called her a traitor. Others have
different views: like how can Becky be a traitor when she was never asked to try out for the US squad despite putting up MVP (most valuable player) numbers and being one of the best guards in the world?
Mechelle Voepel writes a
very smart and nuanced article about the furore:
It's all fascinating to me on a lot of levels because it has made me think about so many things: what the Olympics really are, the ways the world has ...
Posted by Justine at 12:32, June 7th, 2008 under Basketball, New York City/USA, State of the World, Sydney/Australia |
I will confess that I was nervous about going to
High Voltage ConFusion. There were several reasons for this:
I'm afraid of cold places. And Detroit in winter is COLD. ((How cold? Minus a million cold! That's how cold. So cold that I'm back in NYC and it's freezing and it seems warm in comparison.))
I'd never been a guest of honour before and was worried I'd be crappy at it.
I was aware that most of the people at the con would not have heard of me or Scott and was worried that they would feel dudded of a proper author guest of honour what wrote adult sf and fantasy.
I need not have had any concerns at all. I was right ...
Posted by Justine at 0:00, January 24th, 2008 under Basketball, Cons & Other Gatherings, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport, Travelling, Vainglory, Viewing |
Posted by Justine at 9:55, November 13th, 2007 under Basketball, Bloggery/Internetty Stuff, New York City/USA, Praising, Publishing business, Ranting, Sport, State of the World |
Day 11 of the tour:
Tonight's appearance at Books Inc (Opera Plaza) was fabulous. Lots of rabid, smart, enthusiastic Scott fans and passionate arguments about David/Zane. For the record I like Zane better than David but prefer Shay to either one of them.
The most wonderful part of the evening for me was meeting London, who's a guy from Sacramento, who drove all the way to San Francisco (which is at least two hours!) to tell me how much he loves my books. Isn't that awesome? Also turns out he's a Sacramento Monarchs fan and has even met their big star Yolanda Griffiths. I was deeply impressed and we got to talk women's hoops which always makes me happy.
Equally happy making ...
Posted by Justine at 2:49, October 10th, 2007 under Basketball, Fan art, Fans & readers, Scott's books, Travelling |
Phoenix won the
WNBA finals. I am so very happy. I LOVE their style of play. I love Penny Taylor and Cappie Pondexter and Kelly Miller and Diana Taurasi. They are awesomeness personified. They SO deserved to win.
And Detroit totally dogged it. They have not looked that good these playoffs. They barely got past the New York Liberty. Same against Indiana. They did not deserve to win overall. Plus Bill Laimbeer drives me insane. That said Deanna Nolan is probably the most gorgeous shooter I have ever seen. I'd happily watch her play all day long. And Cheryl Ford is crazy strong and brave.
Next year the Liberty are going to knock Detroit out. Oh, yes, we will!
Posted by Justine at 7:58, September 17th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport |
Libba Bray ((and since I'm mentioning Libba I should also mention that
Maureen Johnson is not the only one to have already read The Sweet Far Thing. That's right! Me too. It is deeply awesome. The best of the trilogy.)) is the best friend a girl could have. Look what she done gived me:
I screamed.
Do you notice the choking hazard warning? And that the evil uni***n is call "Destructicorn"?
Happy sigh.
Have any of you seen High School Musical? I think it may be the most conflict-free movie I've ever watched. Quite astonishing. I admit I was a tad disappointed by the choreography. The dance sequences were much better in She's the Man. Also how ...
Posted by Justine at 13:45, September 15th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport, Unicorns, Viewing |
The worst thing about DragonCon---other than the way too many people thing---is that it's on the exact same weekend as the WNBA conference finals. I missed seeing Phoenix sweep San Antonio (woo hoo! Amy---sorry, Rebecca) and will miss all the Indiana-Detroit games (please Indiana win tonight!)
Seeing all those insanely brilliant costumes is some compensation I suppose. Riding on the train with Holly, Theo, Cassandra, Maureen and Scott ditto. Sitting around in a hotel room with them telling ghost stories also not too foul.
Which reminds me what are your favourite urban legends? Feel free to leave a link in the comments if you don't feel like telling the whole thing. So far we've done the finger nails one, the hook, the ...
Posted by Justine at 8:47, September 3rd, 2007 under Basketball, Cons & Other Gatherings, New York City/USA, Praising, Whingeing |
Three quarters of the WNBA playoffs have gone exactly how I want them to. Phoenix beat Seattle (two Aussies against one); Indiana beat Connecticut (one Aussie against Satan's own team); San Antonio beat Sacramento (one Aussie---assistant coach Sandy Brondello + 2 ex-Liberty stars against no Aussies and no ex-Libs).
Now we just have to beat Detroit and my basketball year will be complete. Seriously, I didn't think we'd make the post-season so for the Liberty to get past the first round would be a second miracle. I love what Shamika Christon, Janel McCarville and Loree Moore have been doing in the post-season. I'm so stoked for the 2008 season. The New York Liberty is going to be insanely good.
This year's WNBA ...
Posted by Justine at 23:19, August 27th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport |
Because today I must share the negativity, a list of my current hates:
Referees who only seem to see the fouls committed by my team
Bill Laimbeer ((Though I do love hating him. Don't ever change, Bill! You were eerily calm and unaggro during today's game. A game where you don't get a technical foul is a just plain wrong.))
Friends who are always late---especially when we're meeting for dinner and I'm starving and the stupid restaurant won't seat us until the entire party is there
Restaurants that won't seat you until the entire party is there---What gives? The table is empty and just sitting there. We'll order stuff. Lots of it! You'll make more money off us if you seat us straight away. ...
Posted by Justine at 17:48, August 26th, 2007 under Basketball, Ranting, Sport |
Can you hear that screaming? That's me yelling myself hoarse with joy because we
beat Detroit in Madison Square Garden last night.
BEST. GAME. EVER.
Almost all the punters predicted Detroit would sweep us. Ha ha ha! Instead Detroit played awful. It was like they'd been cursed. And after an awkward messy first half we played great.
Of course mean old
Bill Laimbeer didn't say a word about how well the Liberty played he just went on about his own team's suckiness. Whose fault is that, Bill?
Now I think we're a more than even chance to take Detroit on their home court and I'm cranky that me and Scott're going to be at smelly
DragonCon cause it means we will ...
Posted by Justine at 9:59, August 25th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport |
Washington won their game which meant they were one game ahead of us, but we won our game, which meant we're tied, but we've beaten them 3 times this year so we go through to the playoffs!
YAY!!!!!
Let's go, Liberty!!!
Posted by Justine at 18:55, August 19th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport |
I've been a
New York Liberty season ticket holder since 2003 (though I saw my first game in 2000) and this year has definitely been the most discombobulating. We started off with that
5-0 winning streak then later in the season we had the horrific 0-7 streak and looked to be no chance for the playoffs. Yet here we are one game left and if we win we're in. In fact, even if we lose we could still make the post season---if the
Washington Mystics lose their game.
This year I have seen the Liberty lose an astonishing number of games they should have won. They'd have a lead at the end of the first ...
Posted by Justine at 10:39, August 18th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport |
My favourite basketballer in the entire universe is
Lauren Jackson, which every so often puts me in the weird position of barracking for the team she's playing against. See, I'm a
New York Liberty fan and she plays for the
Seattle Storm, which very confusingly has the same colours as Australia (green and gold).
Last Sunday her team narrowly beat my team, and on the one hand, I was deeply bummed---it was so close! We almost had them!---on the other hand, damn she's a
fine fine player. And, oh, how much I love watching her play. I just prefer, you know, when she's playing for the
Opals and they're
winning the world championships.
How ...
Posted by Justine at 0:09, July 24th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport |
Marrije asked over on insideadog if I'll be following the Tour de France this year. Sadly, I will not.
This year has gotten out of control. I cannot afford to spend hours every day watching the Tour and following it online. I am incapable of following the Tour non-obsessively. So for the first time in years I'm not following it at all. (No spousal pressure was brought to bear in the making of this decision. Well, okay, just a little bit. I am not husband-beaten! I am not!)
Waaaahh!!!!!
The New York Liberty (10-8) will have to sustain my sport-following needs this northern summer.
And now I go back to the myriad tasks that confront me. At this point it's so bad I'm resorting ...
Posted by Justine at 12:02, July 9th, 2007 under Basketball, Sport, Tour de France, Whingeing, Writing goals & milestones |
New York has a sports team that's opened its season with a five game winning streak, despite not even making the playoffs last year and no longer having its
best and most popular player. How many column inches has the New York Times given this remarkable performance?
Pretty much none. Unless you count the teeny tiny AP reports.
This is because the team is the
New York Liberty and it's a women's team. The New York Times is incapable of covering women's basketball unless it's a profile of a male coach. Especially if that
male coach is ex-NBA and coaches a non-New York team.
The New York Daily has no problem covering the Liberty nor does the ...
Posted by Justine at 11:06, June 6th, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Ranting, Sport |
Today at the New York Liberty versus Phoenix Mercury game (we won!) the
Rutger's women's team stood in the middle of the court during one of the breaks. We gave them a standing ovation, stamping, and clapping and yelling for them. At every timeout thereafer they were beseiged by well-wishers and autograph seekers. They may not have won last years' finals but they definitely won the battle against racist radio announcers. Yay!
Kay Yow one of the greatest coaches of women's basketball ever and
Vivian Stringer the fabulous coach of Rutgers were also there. So was Teresa Weatherspoon the best pointguard the Liberty has ever had. All were applauded and mobbed for autographs. It made me so happy. ...
Posted by Justine at 20:41, June 3rd, 2007 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Praising, Sport, Viewing |
I seem to have rolled out of the ranty side of the bed every morning this week. First I was peeing on the eighties and now I am cranky on account of a particularly stupid thing that was said to me about basketball.
Viz, "I can't stand basketball. It's just a bunch overpaid genetic freaks running around with a ball. Who cares?"
As I had just been talking about the joys of my season tickets to the New York Liberty, I clearly care, and you, Mr Shorty Bald man, were being very rude. I poke my tongue out at you!
But that's not what's raised my ire, nope, it's the phrase "genetic freaks".
So, what are you supposed to do if you're naturally good ...
Posted by Justine at 0:03, April 25th, 2007 under Basketball, Ranting, Sport |
Posted by Justine at 9:21, September 29th, 2006 under Basketball, Bloggery/Internetty Stuff, Magic or Madness trilogy, Praising, Reading, Sport, Whingeing, Words & Language |
This is not a question I get asked very much. Not directly, anyway, but every single time I post about sport someone writes and asks me when I'm going to post about interesting topics again. That's right, the biggest complaint I get from you, dear readers, is that I talk about sport too much. (( It's particularly weird as I've hardly blogged sport at all this year. Very little mention of cricket, the World Cup, or the Tour de France; pretty much nothing about the Liberty's unhappy WNBA season, and hardly any mention of all the various Australian triumphs this year. I've been busy, okay?))
Now I ain't never gonna stop writing about sport, no matter how many of you are ...
Posted by Justine at 0:03, September 26th, 2006 under Basketball, Cricket, Fans & readers, Sport, Tour de France |
We won! For the first time ever we won the world championships of women's basketball!!
Penny Taylor was awesome! As was Kristy Harrower and Lauren Jackson!
(Picture purloined from abc.net.au)
I am so very very very very very happy!
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!
Posted by Justine at 14:44, September 23rd, 2006 under Basketball, Sport |
You are correct that I have not been blogging much or responding to comments like I usually do or even responding to email a whole lot.
The reason is that I'm on a deadline (yes, the same one, yes, it was moved again, yes I really have to meet this one) and am working my arse off. (Oh, how I miss my arse!)
In the meantime I think you lot should entertain me. Here are some questions:
Does anyone have any recs for best brunch place in NYC?
Who's going to be the first Australian to win the Tour de France (no, it doesn't have to be this year)?
What's the best book you've read lately?
I just read
Out by Natuso Kirino. Loved it. ...
Posted by Justine at 11:18, July 16th, 2006 under Basketball, Bloggery/Internetty Stuff, Excuses, Fashion, Food, Frippery, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Praising, Reading, Sport, Tour de France |
Good on ya, Sheryl!
Photo by Lorenzo Pesce
Posted by Justine at 18:48, October 26th, 2005 under Basketball, Sport, State of the World |
Posted by Justine at 13:43, October 20th, 2005 under Basketball, Cons & Other Gatherings, Cricket, Food, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Liquids, Listening, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Scott's books, Sport, Travelling, Words & Language, Young Adult literature |
Bugger writing, I'm off to see the
dinosaurs with
Scott and
Cat.
Someone else loves the
Liberty almost as much as I do.
Our Shane's talking big about us crushing England in the fourth test. On ya, Shane!
Enjoy your day. See youse later!
Posted by Justine at 10:26, August 24th, 2005 under Basketball, Cricket, New York City/USA, Sport, Viewing |
A
month back I confidently announced that the
New York Liberty would make the 2005
WNBA playoff season. This has now come to pass. The Liberty are on a
five-game winning streak despite having lost
Anne Wauters, one of their top performers this year. Now it's just a battle to see whether we get homecourt advantage or not. Here's to our winning streak going on and on all the way to the WNBA finals.
I also predicted that Australia will win the Ashes and like
Michael Slater I'm sticking to that prediction. Nor do I have any of his "healthy" doubt. It'll be tough but we will do it.
Thursday sees the beginning of the fourth ...
Posted by Justine at 9:49, August 22nd, 2005 under Basketball, Cricket, Sport |
Miyazaki's
Spirited Away is, and I quote, "too scary! too scary! too scary!" for two year olds.
At first
Marlowe was enchanted. Then it got dark, the parents turned into pigs, and demons started appearing out of nowhere. And that was the end of Spirited Away for Marlowe. "Too scary! Too scary! Too scary!"
Never give up on the
Liberty. They always come back in the second half. (Unless they don't.) Um, Coach Coyle? How come
Erin Thorne got more minutes than
Shameka Christon?
Never give up on the Australian men's cricket team (not that I didn't already know that). Yeah, yeah, England have declared. Yeah, yeah it would be a miracle to get four hundred on ...
Posted by Justine at 19:38, August 14th, 2005 under Basketball, Cricket, Liquids, Sport, Viewing |
Watched the
New York Liberty beat the
Charlotte Sting in double overtime last night. Wonderful close fought game, which you wouldn't expect given that Charlotte have only won four games this season and are already out of playoff contention. But they've got a new coach---the glorious
Muggsy Bogues (whose height is anywhere between 4ft 11 and 5ft 3 depending on who you ask---whatever---for an ex-NBA player he ain't tall)---and many amazing players:
Sheri Sam,
Helen Darling,
Tangela Smith,
Tammy Sutton-Brown.
I think I know one of the reasons the Sting have been having such a rotten run. There was almost no crowd. The arena in Charlotte was echoingly empty. Surely having almost no-one ...
Posted by Justine at 13:22, August 13th, 2005 under Basketball, Sport |
Yes, this is more about sport. Look, I know many of you can't stand sport, but I don't care (feel free to stop telling me about your lack of interest). Sport---and I'm talking watching it, not doing it---has been keeping me from burning down buildings since I was a wee thing. I've a sports brain. I am obsessed. Come the Olympics and I can barely leave the house. (Yes, I like to play some sports too: tennis mostly and not very well. I have a long legacy of sports played and abandoned---largely through injury.) I love following a particular team, knowing its history, the players, the management, the gossip. I love knowing the ins and outs of a particular sport, ...
Posted by Justine at 20:18, July 24th, 2005 under Basketball, Sport |
The New York Liberty are gonna make the playoffs. There, that's my money on the table. My team is gonna figure in the postseason.
They're looking absolutely bloody amazing at the moment.
Elena Baranova has come good, blocking, rebounding, being incredible in defence, hell, even
Erin Thorne looked good last night. The Liberty just won two games back to back on the road, and
last night against the
Sacramento Monarchs they were magnificent, never looking like they were going to do anything but win (we'll just ignore the last two shambolic minutes).
On a good day my team can beat any other team in the league; and, yeah, on a bad day they can lose to ...
Posted by Justine at 11:13, July 23rd, 2005 under Basketball, Sport |
Working hard thus am not so bloggery as usual. Other than the novel I'm writing here's what's up in Justineland:
Daphne Lee has posted the
unedited (and illustrated) version of her interview with me where I persist in getting the name of Samantha from Bewitched's grandmother wrong (got all that?). Daphne reports that Magic or Madness sold out in Kuala Lumpur the week the interview appeared in
The Star. How stupendous is that?
Last night the
New York Liberty beat the Houston Comets in overtime in Houston. Scott and me, we was screaming at the television like you wouldn't believe. So happy! And as usual when the Liberty win everybody played their part. They are so teamy and ...
Posted by Justine at 11:43, July 13th, 2005 under Basketball, Bloggery/Internetty Stuff, Cons & Other Gatherings, Magic or Madness trilogy, Sport, Tour de France, Viewing |
England have to make 35 runs an over in order to win. They have but one wicket left. I'd call that a pretty difficult situation. Though, they could hit a six off every remaining ball, so it's not technically impossible.
I feel so much better. The world is not spinning out of control. The curse has been lifted. Yes, it's only pyjama cricket, but I'll take it! I just hope this Australian victory doesn't mean the Pistons will lose tonight. Nope, not superstitious, me.
Life is good.
Update: now it's 61 runs an over. Yup, that's impossible. And now it's 73. And now, 120. Now 177. Aren't numbers fun? And then the
match was over. Woo hoo!
Update 2: My superstitious fear was ...
Posted by Justine at 17:18, June 23rd, 2005 under Basketball, Cricket, Sport |
