We didn’t have Nikki McCray nearly long enough

We thought we’d have her longer. Nikki McCray, gone at the age of 51, doesn’t seem real. Her funeral is Saturday afternoon in Knoxville and comes 11 years after she was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame there. Her time in Norfolk was so short that many...
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Kenny Brooks Has Nothing Left to Prove

Everybody else found out in the last two weeks what we’ve known for more than a decade. Kenny Brooks has nothing to prove. The Waynesboro, Virginia native knows not only how to build a program but how to elevate that program to the next level. Seven years in at...
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Don’t overlook Liberty in the WNIT

Is Liberty the best of the 64 teams in the WNIT? Now, we suspect Jacksonville State objects to his notion. Yet when one sizes up each squad’s overall body of work, it’s hard to top the one produced by these Lady Flames, who will open tournament play at home against...
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Virginia-based Vicki L. Friedman, winner of the 2013 Mel Greenberg Media Award, and Paul White are LadySwish, a blog dedicated to the 13 Division I basketball teams in the state. We love the sport — its coaches, its players, its fans and its quirks. Both of us are journalists with more than four decades of experience. Our passion fuels us to deliver our best to our fans and followers every day.

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