lisa-leslie Stories - Swish Appeal
What are your takes on America's Top 10 favorite athletes? When do you think a local athlete can be on the list?
The Harris Poll recently released results of its poll regarding Americans' favorite athletes. Two separate questions were given to adults 18 and up. One question was for the respondent's favorite athlete (for all purposes here, I'll say men's athlete because the Top 10 was all men anyway) and one...
Stanford at Arizona, Second to last PAC-10 Game
Well, C and R are afraid this will not be a very good run down of the Stanford Women’s Basketball game against Arizona. It wasn’t on TV, of course, and Gametracker was down for every game, at least on our computer. We got KZSU live on the Internet, but it was hard for us to follow the...
Stanford's Victory at Arizona State
The Stanford Women’s Basketball game vs. Arizona State is, surprise, surprise, on TV, and R, being the resident season ticket holder, gets an email that a local bar in Los Gatos is showing the game and has invited ticket holders and all fans Stanford to attend. Wow. On TV and having the...
Stanford Seniors
Sorry for posting this story so late but C and R finally stopped crying. It was senior night and Jayne Appel’s last game at Maples in the regular season. (There’s a chance she and Stanford could play the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament at Maples). Four other seniors were...
WNBA Most Valuable Player Shares
My latest project is to create a Hall of Fame projection system for the WNBA based on the similar system at Basketball-Reference.com. However, in order to complete one of the components, I had to create Most Valuable Player Shares for WNBA players. What is an MVP Share? The problem with the MVP...









