Candace Parker News

NBA Commissioner David Stern predicted last week that a woman will play in the league within the next decade.

Terrelle Pryor, LeBron James and Morgan Pressel are just a few of the athletes that have made the past 10 years great.

Editor's note: Based primarily on high school accomplishment and the annual ESPN RISE/Student Sports All-American selections of the past 10 years.

Candace Parker altered the reality of girls hoops while at Naperville Central ... and she didn't stop there.

The WNBA's owners are meeting in New York today and the top item on their agenda may be something none of them want to consider - the end of another franchise.

Mackenzie McCollum was about four months pregnant as she darted around the volleyball court, angling to get under the ball in her team's first game of the district playoffs.

To say that Baylor freshman Brittney Griner has been anointed the next big thing in women's college basketball would be an understatement of gigantic proportions.

Give Angie Bjorklund credit for putting the whole truth in her advertising. The Tennessee junior guard's sales pitch to her fellow students could've been all Lady Vols.

If you think about it, the battle for the 2011 recruiting class really is a battle for control of the subsequent cycles of NCAA championships.

The most talked about player at the Big 12 women's basketball media day was nowhere to be found Wednesday.

It's doubtful a Division I women's basketball player has had a more productive few months than UConn senior center Tina Charles .

UConn's Tina Charles, competing against Stanford's Jayne Appel in the first half in an NCAA tournament semifinal last season, is working hard to keep coach Geno Auriemma happy -- with the Huskies and in attempting to make the U.S. national team.

When Indiana's Tamika Catchings is flying around the court seeming to be in about three places at once, she seems superhuman.

Angel McCoughtry scored 20 points to lead the U.S. basketball team past UMMC Ekaterinburg 78-63 Sunday and captured the tournament title.

Minnesota Lynx guard and South Charleston High School graduate Renee Montgomery will join the United States women's basketball team as it travels to Russia to play in the Ekaterinburg International Invitational from Friday through Sunday.

Angel McCoughtry scored 17 points the USA received double-digit scoring from Sylvia Fowles, Asjha Jones, Tina Charles and Shameka Christon to open the Ekaterinburg International Invitational Friday evening with an impressive 100-81 victory over the Czech professional team ZVVC UKA Prague .

Current senior Tina Charles was one of five players with UConn ties named to a the 13-player USA Basketball women's national team that will participate in the Ekaterinburg International Invite starting Friday in Russia.

There was good news from Candace Parker after her fourth day in camp Monday with the U.S. women's national basketball team.

Here is the news you've been waiting for from USA Basketball's own mouth.... "After training for six days in Washington, D.C., 2009-12 USA Basketball Women's National Team members and Olympic gold medalists Sue Bird , Sylvia Fowles and Candace Parker will lead a USA squad in Russia in the four-team 2009 Ekaterinburg International Invitational.

From Anne Donovan and Katrina McClain to Lisa Leslie and Tina Thompson, the U.S. women's basketball team has always been able to wear down its opponents with its depth at the post.