By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK – Atlanta Dream’s Blake Dietrick, at the Westchester County Center, was playing 941 miles away from the Dream’s home base, 178 miles away from her hometown, but only 80 miles from Princeton University’s Jadwin Gymnasium. It was in that gym that Dietrick (class of ’15)…
Month: August 2018
“Just Play”: New Jersey’s Tobin Heath Poised to Seize the World By Storm… Again
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BASKING RIDGE, N.J.- Speaking with me at her alma mater, Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, Tobin Heath was beaming as two hundred campers were learning the game of soccer behind us. Last year, Heath and I discussed the importance of unstructured play in an athlete’s development….
A Bad Dream: New York Liberty Fall to Atlanta on Fan Appreciation Day
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.- Today, the New York Liberty wrapped up their 2018 home campaign with a 86-77 loss to the Atlanta Dream at the Westchester County Center. The Liberty moved from the World’s Most Famous arena, Madison Square Garden, to the arena in White Plains at the beginning of…
Nicki Minaj, QUEEN of Sports Lyrics
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J.- A Nicki Minaj post is on a professional sports website. Why? I’ve been saying it for years– Nicki Minaj must be huge sports fan: she includes a sports reference in almost every song and every verse she records. Queen, released at midnight, does not disappoint the sports fan….
Commissioner Calls Aces’ Bluff, Possibly Folding Playoff Hopes
By Danielle McCartan (@CoachMcCartan and http://www.Facebook.com/CoachMcCartan) BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. – A professional basketball team looks to board a plane to play a game across the country. The flight’s stopover destination delays the outbound flight twice, causing the team to chase z’s on the airport terminal chairs. The flight the team boards will arrive late, approximately…
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