The Guru Stands Corrected on WNBA Assumptions (Women's Hoops Guru)

The Guru Stands Corrected on WNBA Assumptions

By Mel Greenberg

The Bird may still be the word in the WNBA MVP race but as he was writing the last post in the middle of the night in the pre-dawn hours, he actually had made a smart remark and withdrew it that they couldn't possibly be holding a conference call on the sixth woman honor, which the Guru couldn't remember if it had been announced.

The Guru has since learned from a reliable league source that honor willindeed be the subject of Thursday's teleconference ( 3 p.m. in the East)..

A name was not given but a strong clue was.

Thus the Guru will be offer his own clue.

The winner will be one of three women to make news in Miunnesota this year. She would not be the one running for vice president on the Republican ticket or owning an Olympic gold medal recently obtained in Beijing, China.

But she was known for her Cardinal achievements out West during her collegiate career and even won a surprise national honor as it concluded.

That will make the Guru nearly batting .1000 on all the announced WNBA postseason honors to date. His lone error, not to be confused with Wall Street's loan errors, was involving the Sportsmanship award, which the Guru cast his ballot for Cappie Pondexter on behalf of the Rutgers message board.

Incidentally, each team nominates its own candidate for consideration for the Kim Perrott honor and most times it is one of the few that the team PR machines don't offer campaigning reasons for selection.

-- Mel

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Posted by Mel Greenberg on September 25, 2008 11:06 AM | Permalink

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Mel Greenberg covers college and professional women’s basketball for the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he has worked for 38 years. Greenberg pioneered national coverage of the game, including the original Top 25 women's college poll. His knowledge has earned him nicknames such as "The Guru" and "The Godfather," as well as induction into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.

Jonathan Tannenwald is a producer with Philly.com. In addition to covering the local college scene, he spent two years as the Washington Mystics beat writer for Women's Hoops Guru. He also writes his own blog, Soft Pretzel Logic, which covers men's college basketball, football, and a variety of other sports.

Kathleen Radebaugh is a recent graduate of Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. She was the women's basketball beat writer for the school's newspaper, The Hawk, and became the sports editor her sophomore year. She was also a four-year member of the varsity crew team.

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-- Erin Semagin Damio covers the University of Connecticut and the WNBA's Connecticut Sun for the blog, and contributes other features. The Storrs, Conn., native also attends Northeastern University, where she is a coxswain on the varsity crew team.

-- Acacia O'Connor is based in Washington, D.C., where she reports on the Mystics and the college basketball scene in the nation's capital. A graduate of Vassar college, she played on the varsity women's basketball team and was editor of the student newspaper.

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