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Plano West senior learned from the best
By TED MADDEN
January 14, 2012
"Freshman coach was like, Coach I don't know if he can make the team," said varsity head coach Anthony Morgan. "And I'm watching him -- didn't know who he was, didn't know his background. And I said, you know this kid knows a little bit about the game."
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NANCY LIEBERMAN, THE FIRST WOMAN NBA COACH, HAS STEPPED AWAY FROM COACHING - BUT SHE'S STILL IN THE GAME
Dallas Business Journal/ By Candace Carlisle
Sept. 9, 2011
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What's Up with Nancy Lieberman
The Arizona Republic/By Odeen Domingo
Sept. 6, 2011
Q&A with Nancy Lieberman on her new business book, "Playbook for Success: A Hall of Famer's Business Tactics for Teamwork and Leadership." Read more >>
Posted at: http://www.azcentral.com/sports/mercury/articles/2011/09/06/20110906nancy-lieberman-wnba-nbdl-basketball.html
Nancy Lieberman is queen of the court
ESPN-W/ By Whitney Holtzman
Aug 8, 2011
Nancy Lieberman is featured as a Power Player in an interview with ESPN-W. Read more >>
Posted at: http://espn.go.com/espnw/features-profiles/6830028/power-players-nancy-lieberman-queen-court
HOOP DREAMS For Nancy Lieberman, A Good Assist Can Go A Long Way
Athletes Quarterly
Summer, 2011
AQ is honored to have Nancy Lieberman as a Contributing Editor.Read more >>
Posted at: http://www.athletesquarterly.com/feature_nancy-lieberman.asp
Nancy Lieberman has joined the EA SPORTS Maui Invitational
July 15, 2011
Basketball Hall of Famer, Nancy Lieberman has joined the EA SPORTS Maui Invitational hosted by Chaminade University as one of five coaches participating in the 2011 coaches clinics, a part of the adidas Hoops Clinics. The clinics (Sept. 28/30 in Oahu and Oct. 1 in Maui) provide an educational opportunity for local island basketball coaches to learn playing techniques, coaching skills and overall management styles from successful former Division I NCAA basketball coaches, including Basketball Hall of Famer, Nancy Lieberman, ESPN Analyst Fran Fraschilla and Tournament Chairman David Odom. The trio will be joined by current D-II Chaminade men's basketball coach Eric Bovaird and women's basketball coach Bobby Keanini. Go to goswords.com for more information.
The EA SPORTS Maui Invitational is celebrating its 28th year as the nation's premier early-season men's college basketball tournament. The 2011 Championship Round teams include Duke, Georgetown, Kansas, Memphis, Michigan, Tennessee, UCLA and host Chaminade.
Make sure to follow @EASPORTSMauiInv, "like" the Facebook page and visit the website at www.mauiinvitational.com
Nancy Lieberman featured on ESPN Outside the Lines
July 11, 2011
Lieberman provides insight on magic moments in sports over the weekend with the U.S. Women's World Cup team's stunning victory over Brazil, and Jeter's milestone reaching 3,000 hits by hitting a Home Run.
Sports pioneer Nancy Lieberman comes to Holy Land
The Jerusalem Post/ By Allon Sinai
May 18, 2011
Sinai Says: Basketball legend uses the inspiration of her life story to present a detail-oriented path to success in different aspects of business and life.
The now 52-year-old American has pushed gender boundaries and smashed stereotypes for most of her adult life. As a basketball player in the 1970s and 1980s, she most famously became the first woman to play regular-season games in a US men's pro league (in 1986) as part of the Springfield Fame of the United States Basketball League.Read more >>
Steve Solloway: Timeout with a true legend
The Portland Press Herald
March 18, 2011
NBAE/Getty Images
Nancy Lieberman will find quite a following waiting when she visits the Portland Expo this weekend.
If she can get a ticket to one of the Maine Red Claws games this weekend, Lisa Manning will be in the Portand Expo, watching the woman who is the head coach of the Texas Legends. At an appropriate moment, if there is one, Manning will approach Nancy Lieberman.
It will be one member of the Old Dominion University women's basketball family connecting with another. A Maine legend and forerunner greeting a national personality who has opened so many doors in basketball. Coaching young male professionals is just the latest. Read more >>
Posted at: http://www.pressherald.com/sports/timeout-with-a-true-legend_2011-03-18.html?searchterm=Nancy+Lieberman
Get Healthy Texas Day
CBS DFW
January 21, 2011
FRISCO (CBSDFW.COM) - CBS 11 & TXA 21 are Getting Healthy this weekend at Fieldhouse USA in Frisco. Take a look at some of the highlights from Friday as they get ready for Saturday's big events.
Posted at: http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/01/21/get-healthy-texas-day/
A new 'next game' for Hall of Fame basketball player Nancy Lieberman
LA Times / By David Wharton
January 11, 2011
Hall of Fame player Nancy Lieberman has traded her basketball sneakers for high heels, but she's no less determined as she coaches men in the NBA Development League.
Reporting from Frisco, Texas - Someone told the girl about Rucker Park in Harlem, told her that all the best players gathered there for pickup games.
Harlem was two train rides and a long walk from her neighborhood in Queens, but she had fallen in love with basketball - shooting hoops in the playground each afternoon until dark - and nothing could keep her from having a look. Read more >>
Posted at: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/11/sports/sp-lieberman-basketball-20110111
A Conversation With Nancy Lieberman
By faboverfifty.com
January 10, 2011
This November, Nancy Lieberman will become the first female head coach to lead a NBA-affiliated team: the Texas Legends, of the NBA's Developmental League. Really, it could not have been anyone else; after growing up in Queens in the sixties, Lieberman has always been at the forefront of women's basketball. At eighteen, she was the youngest basketball player in Olympic history, helping the U.S. earn silver at the 1976 Games in Montreal. She's a Hall of Famer, two-time Olympian, and was a three-time All-American at Old Dominion. She's been a WNBA coach and general manager, and twice set the record for oldest player in the WNBA. She's been a television broadcaster and president of the Women's Sports Foundations. She's a motivational speaker, and an author. She's a mother, a chef, and she's dogged about her skin care. Faboverfifty talked to her about basketball, gender roles, and what love means - among other things. Read more >>
Posted at: http://www.faboverfifty.com/interviews/5566
Lieberman Is Back in Men's Game, in New Role
The New York Times Times / By Harvey Araton
December 23, 2010
photo taken by Brendan Sullivan/The Dallas Morning News
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Two and a half hours before tipoff, before a single fan had entered the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum and before she had donned her pink blouse, necklace and high heels, the player who once dared to dribble among men was making her case to be more than one of the guys.
"They need women in every aspect of life - why not as coach?" Nancy Lieberman said.
She had come to the arena early to retrieve practice shots for her 35-year-old star, Antonio Daniels. Then she moved on to one-up her coaching opponent, Joey Meyer, by reminding him of how his father - Ray, of DePaul prominence - had befriended her when they met years ago as members of a certain little fraternity called the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Read more >>
Posted at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/sports/basketball/24lieberman.html?_r=1
Nancy Lieberman has new venture to add to resume
ESPN.go.com
Dec. 12, 2010
Nancy Lieberman has become the first woman to coach a men's basketball team affiliated with the NBA. Lieberman is the head coach of the Texas Legends, who are in their first season in the NBA Developmental League. Some have called it a publicity stunt, but Dallas Mavericks GM and Legends owner Donnie Nelson says he considers his hire of Lieberman "groundbreaking." Sunday on "Outside the Lines," Jay Harris examined the story (Watch below)
Article Posted at: http://espn.go.com/espnw/blog/_/post/5912700/nancy-lieberman-new-venture-add-resume
Video Posted at: http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=5902464
Breaking Barriers in the Sports World
Fox Business
Nov. 19, 2010
Nancy Lieberman, basketball Hall of Famer on what it is like to be the first female full-time head coach of a pro men's team. Read more >>
Posted at: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4427339/breaking-barriers-in-the-sports-world-/
Nancy Lieberman, Legends ready to go
ESPN.go.com/ By Jeff Caplan
Nov. 18, 2010
History will be made tonight when the Frisco-based Texas Legends, the NBA Development League team co-owned by Dallas Mavericks president Donnie Nelson, open their inaugural season with head coach and Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman on the bench. Read more >>
Posted at: http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/mavericks/post/_/id/4671611/nancy-lieberman-texas-legends-ready-to-go
Texas Legends NBADL opener: Lieberman set to become first woman to coach NBA affiliate
The Dallas Morning News/ By Mark Dent
Nov. 17, 2010
FRISCO - If it weren't Nancy Lieberman, this wouldn't look so natural. A slender 5-8 woman is crouching on a hardwood court gazed upon by a dozen breathing, sweating, balling, human-equivalents of the Sears Tower who also happen to be male, and she's the one offering rebounding instruction. Read more >>
Posted at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/111810dnspowomennbadl.3e70eb3.html
Sitting in the first chair: Nancy Lieberman
ESPN.go.com/ By Kevin Arnovitz
Aug. 16, 2010
The presence of basketball has been as prominent in the life of Nancy Lieberman as any person over the past 35 years. At age 17, she was tapped to be a member of the U.S. National team and had already won an Olympic silver medal before packing up her Camaro and driving down from her home in Far Rockaway, Queens, to Old Dominion University in Virginia. Read more >>
Posted at: http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/19093/sitting-in-the-first-chair-nancy-lieberman