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Glenn Nelson, the founder of website HoopGurlz.com, claims that girls basketball is a fundamentally different game than boys basketball. They may be playing with the same rules, but something about girls basketball is different. More »
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Rutgers basketball star Epiphanny Prince will be one of the first women to skip her senior season and play professionally in Europe before entering the WNBA draft — but is it a good idea? [NYT] More »
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Jaime Nared is 12 years old and 6'1" tall, and the last time she played basketball against girls her age the score was 90-7. She's lucky enough to be so good that she leaves her opponents in the dust, and unlucky enough to be so good that she makes adults angry. So angry, in fact, that after a particularly stellar game in April, the boys' team she played for kicked her out. They cited a long-unenforced rule, but Jaime's parents suspect they didn't want a girl outshining the boys. After her parents threatened a lawsuit, she's back on the team, but her case raises questions about how parents and coaches should handle girls who are phenomenally athletic for their age. More »
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Jaime Nared is 12 years old. She's also 6'1'' and a basketball player scoring 30 points a game, but instead of being heralded as the next big thing, Jaime is getting kicked off her team. You see, she was playing on a private boys' team in Oregon, and the parents of opposing players, citing a rule against mixed gender teams, got Jaime tossed out of the league, which is known as "The Hoop." According to ABC News, her teammates wrote letters to the The Hoop asking for Jaime to be reinstated, but to no avail. Joey Alfieri, one of her peers, told ABC, "Her greatness ... sprinkles off and goes onto us…[It] makes us better as a player too." Aww. Even though she's still in middle school, Jaime has already been offered a scholarship to Oregon State. "I don't understand why they wouldn't want me to play with them, just because I am a girl," Jaime told ABC. We wish we had a satisfying answer for you, Jaime! Clip above. More »
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