One of UConn’s biggest women’s basketball stars and possibly UConn women’s basketball biggest villain each made news yesterday.
Diana Taurasi (UConn 2004) was suspended by the WNBA for two games for her inappropriate conduct towards the game officials during the game on Friday night against Detroit. She was notified Saturday by the league about her suspension. She will miss games Today (Sunday) and Saturday against the Houston Comets.
Taurasi flipped her lid in the games final seconds. Taurasi tried to get open for a final shot but Plenette Pierson stood between her and the ball. Pierson then fell to the floor, referee Michael Price blew his whistle and the Mercury never got the last chance to tie the game.
Taurasi charged Price irate, screaming and gesturing as Mercury assistant coach Corey Gaines got between the two trying to remove Dee.
Dee, who as we know never fails to hide her displeasure, didn’t stop there. “He’s terrible,” Taurasi said of Price. “That doesn’t surprise me. He is what he is. We played so hard for 40 minutes and not even get a chance at the end to make a play. They just took it away from us. That’s complete (bull).”
“She flopped and she does it the whole game,” said Taurasi, who finished with only 15 points and eight assists. “She flops and flops and flops and they keep giving her calls. It should be like in soccer where if you flop you get a red card, you get the penalty.”
“If you’re going to decide a game (with a foul) then people are going to stop coming to the games,” Taurasi said. “The way they’re calling games this year, less people are going to come watch.
Nice to see Dee learned post game commenting from Geno as well.
Meanwhile on Friday night in Tennessee, Summitt, who was once listed in Sports Illustrated as Connecticut’s biggest sports villain, got dizzy and fainted at her house. She was transported to a local hospital and held overnight for observation.
She was released Saturday morning.
Doctor’s say she was dehydrated possibly from conducting several basketball clinics in non-air conditioned facilities.
She probably fainted over the stress of canceling the UConn series but something tells me Geno will be blamed for the lack of A/C and for stealing Pat’s water bottle.
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On a night where the strike zone seemed as big as California, it was Chris Young and not Tim Wakefield who took advantage of it by striking out 11 Red Sox batters as the Padres destroyed the Red Sox 6-1. Khailil Greene was the main villain on Saturday night as he smashed two Wakefield pitches into the seats in left field. Just like when he was with Boston, Josh Bard hurt the Red Sox this time with his bat, as he had a homer, a double and 3 RBI. In case you have a short memory, Bard was Wake’s personal catcher for the first month of the 2006 season and allowed 10 passed balls in 7 starts before being shipped out to San Diego along with Cla Meredith for Doug Mirabelli.
The 6th inning brought the end of the night for Wake and also for manager Terry Francona. After a Adrian Gonzalez fly out, Cameron doubled to deep center. Bard then hit a long fly ball to left that was initially ruled a foul ball. This brought Padres manager Bud Black out to argue and ask 3B ump Brian Knight to get some help. After a conference, it was ruled the ball hit the foul pole and was ruled a 2 run homer. TV replays clearly showed they made the right call. Francona took exception to this and went out to argue the call with Knight. They actually had to stop arguing for a second as some idiot threw a water bottle at Francona. When they moved our to third, Francona finished his arguing and was given the boot out of the game. The homer by the way gave the Padres a 5-0 lead.
We at Sox and Dawgs decided to start taking a look at some current players to see if they could gain election to Hall of Fame. In this series, we’re going to look at players who are currently active who have reasonable consideration to be a Hall nominee. This isn’t a science and you may have others on your list that we left off. There are some fine young players who are just starting their careers who may have Hall potential but for arguments sake these are for guys who have been around a bit or those few outstanding younger players who just jump off the page at you.
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