VanDerveer: ‘I think it’s going to be awesome’
Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith has covered women’s basketball nationally for more than three decades. A 2024 inductee into the U.S. Basketball Writer’s Hall of Fame, Smith has worked for ESPN.com, The Athletic, the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as Pac-12.com and WNBA.com. She is the 2017 recipient of the Jake Wade Media Award from the Collegiate Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) and was named the Mel Greenberg Media Award winner by the WBCA in 2019.
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Institutional Knowledge: Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer talks about grief and excitement in move to ACC
‘You invest 40 years into something, and to watch it unravel in 40 minutes, it’s sad’
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Institutional Knowledge: For now, women’s basketball is along for the realignment ride
Football moves have created major instability for women’s basketball, other NCAA sports
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The FIFA Women’s World Cup has been a major success with major growth, and now it is FIBA’s turn to work on following suit.
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Column: With multiple interested parties, and a painful history of having the rug pulled out, Oakland deserves this
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Institutional Knowledge: Why did this year’s WNBA cuts resonate so much?
‘I hope we see a roster expansion soon because I feel like that’s low-hanging fruit’
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Institutional Knowledge: Vanessa Nygaard heading into second season looking for normalcy
‘It’s like writing. The first draft is always crap. I’m doing a lot of things differently.’
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Institutional Knowledge: The legend replacement plans commence in Seattle and Minnesota
A look inside life after Syl and Sue
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Closing a door on history: Ruminations on WNBA locker room access
One woman in sports media’s experience with locker room access
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Column: Even Stanford isn’t immune from the new world order
Three Cardinal players, including former No. 1 recruit Betts, enter transfer portal