Not even a month had passed since Renee Montgomery saw her University of Connecticut women's basketball teammate and roommate Kalana Greene laying on the Gampel Pavilion court, the latest player to fall prey to the curse of the anterior cruciate ligament injury. As the junior guard for the top-ranked Huskies looked over at Mel Thomas late in a mid-January game at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y., Montgomery could not believe her eyes.
Nikki Bond, a two-time All-Region girls basketball player who has endured some serious injuries in her career, will be continuing with basketball in college after her senior year at Battle Ground. Bond is set to play at Corban University in Salem.
Is this the year Huntington's Whitney Bays wins the Rat A. Thom Award as West Virginia's high school girls basketball Player of the Year? Voting has not even begun but early indicators are that this may well be Bays' year.
Complications from injuries suffered in a car crash have caused a variety of health problems for former UW basketball player Teresa Clift. By Bob Hammond
NOTE: Online video Gaining more experience with each passing second in dealing with players coming off knee injuries, UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma has no intention of speeding up Caroline Doty's recovery process from a sprained left knee.
LISLE - With returning starters Jordan Zimmer and John Koschnitzky in street clothes with injuries, Illinois Wesleyan basketball coach Ron Rose had to delve into his bench to fill out his starting lineup for Monday's season opener. When Rose dug even deeper into his stockpile of reserves, he found exactly what he needed in seniors Matt Schick and Duncan Lawson.
CHAMPAIGN - For a coach preaching hustle and hard work, Bruce Weber has loved the way his Illinois basketball team has attacked the workload in practice. But as bumps, bruises and injuries pile up, Weber already is dialing back the intensity.
I think (it's) Derrick Rose," he said Wednesday before the Heat defeated the Washington Wizards. "What he's done for that team, with all the injuries they have and them being first in the Eastern Conference - they're playing some really good basketball. More to the point, it's [LeBron] letting go of things that tripped him up in the past (the individual needs) because he's focused on something more important (his team's needs). Even cynics who think it's a ploy to come across as likeable should note: He's had trouble doing even that since "The Decision." Even if that's all it is, even if it's just a good PR move, it's big and it's to be commended. It denotes a level of self-awareness that has been evident in his growing respect for [Erik Spoelstra], his renewed focus on winning rather...
Continued from C1 special times to be a part of Huskymania. Houston, Swanier and Thomas could hardly believe their stroke of good fortune that they each held an engraved invitation to the Mecca of women's basketball. Diana Taurasi, Maria Conlon and Morgan Valley had reached the Final Four in each of their four years and perhaps only the untimely injuries of Svetlana Abrosimova and Shea Ralph in 2001 kept UConn's women's basketball Class of 2004 from being the first in the history of Division I women's college basketball to win four national titles in a row. Armed with the innocence of youth, Houston, Swanier and Thomas figured to express train from Storrs to the Final Four came as part of the package of their UConn experience.
HOUSTON | Yahoo Sports is reporting that Yao Ming is retiring from basketball. The 7-foot-6 Houston Rockets center, plagued by lower-body injuries in the second half of his career, has informed the league office that his playing career is over, the website reported.
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