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☆ Irish women’s basketball team refuses to shake hands with Israeli team after accusations of antisemitism
  + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Jacob Lev | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
CNN —The Irish women’s national basketball team refused to shake hands with the Israeli women’s national team ahead of the first game of the 2025 Women’s EuroBasket qualifier in Riga, Latvia, on Thursday. Basketball Ireland fully supports our players in their decision,” the statement continued. On Wednesday, Israeli basketball player Dor Sa’ar called the Irish team “quite antisemitic,” in an interview posted on the Israeli Basketball Association’s website. After the game, Israel head coach Sharon Drucker said he had “never seen such things” in his life. “There was no game where you don’t give concessions, shake hands, congratulate each other.
Persons: Dor Sa’ar, “, ” Sa’ar, Israel, Sharon Drucker, “ I’ve, I’ve, ” Drucker, ” Israel, Oksana Dzadan, let’s, James Weldon, ” “ It’s, ” Weldon, Weldon, didn’t, wasn’t Organizations: CNN, Irish women’s, women’s, Basketball Ireland, Ireland, FIBA Europe, Wednesday, Basketball, Israel, ” Basketball Ireland, FIBA Women’s, FIBA, Israeli Basketball Association Locations: Riga, Latvia, Israel, tipoff, Ireland
☆ US Women's Basketball Team to Train in New York Before Heading to Pre-Olympic Tournament
  + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Associated Press | Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: 1 min
US Women's Basketball Team to Train in New York Before Heading to Pre-Olympic TournamentThe U.S. women’s basketball national team will get together for a few days in New York next month before playing in the FIBA Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Belgium
Organizations: Women's Basketball, FIBA Locations: New York, Belgium
☆ She’s one of the WNBA’s biggest stars. This is Brittney Griner’s stellar career so far
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Matias Grez | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
CNN —Brittney Griner’s release from detention in Russia ends a nine-month ordeal and allows her the chance to restart her stellar basketball career. In total, Griner is an seven-time WNBA All-Star – only seven players in WNBA history have made more All-Star appearances. For many years, WNBA players have regularly gone overseas during the WNBA’s offseason to make the most of the higher salaries they can earn in international leagues. According to the New York Times, nearly half of the WNBA’s 144 players traveled to play abroad during the last offseason. “But negatively, there is a factor that you will be tired for the new WNBA season and this can cause injuries and, maybe, you’ll be out of the season.
☆ Liz Mills: How coach became the first woman to lead a men's basketball team in an international tournament
  + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Alasdair Howorth | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +8 min
But as the first woman to coach a men’s national team at a major FIBA tournament, Liz Mills must think of everything – even what she wears. Like many of us when watching a sports team, Mills thought that she could do better; but unlike most of us, she did something about it. Members of the network have experienced discrimination of all kinds, particularly those working in the men’s game. AS Salé was the first job in men's basketball that Mills was paid for. “I want to be the first woman to coach at the World Cup as a head coach of an African [men’s] team,” she asserts.
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