Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.
Los Angeles Sparks star Candace Parker is an amazing basketball player averaging over 18 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists a game. She is one of the leading candidates for WNBA rookie of the year. In this video we talk to Parker and find out to which NBA superstar her fans are compairing her. We also catch up with Coach Michael Cooper who shares with us his successful coaching philosophy.
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Candace Parker Leading The Pack
Posted Sep 16th 2008 8:01AM by Elie Seckbach (author feed)
Filed under: Women's Sports, FanHouse TV
Golden Touch: Sparks' Leslie, Parker and Milton-Jones Talk About Beijing
Posted Aug 27th 2008 1:00PM by Elie Seckbach (author feed)
Filed under: Women's Sports, FanHouse TV, The Word
Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.
WNBA star Lisa Leslie is one of the greatest American Olympians in history, winning four gold medals in four consecutive Olympics. In this video we catch up with Leslie and two of her Sparks teammates -- Candace Parker and Delisha Milton-Jones -- who teamed up with her on the USA basketball team. Find out which athlete most impressed Parker, and how President Bush supplied the players with some laughs. Also, around the 2:45 mark, find out how the Sparks plan on celebrating the Olympic achievement.
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Golden Touch: Sparks' Leslie, Parker and Milton-Jones Talk About Beijing
Posted Aug 27th 2008 1:00PM by Elie Seckbach (author feed)
Filed under: USA
Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.
WNBA star Lisa Leslie is one of the greatest American Olympians in history, winning four gold medals in four consecutive Olympics. In this video we catch up with Leslie and two of her Sparks teammates -- Candace Parker and Delisha Milton-Jones -- who teamed up with her on the USA basketball team. Find out which athlete most impressed Parker, and how President Bush supplied the players with some laughs. Also, around the 2:45 mark, find out how the Sparks plan on celebrating the Olympic achievement.
Youtube link.
Golden Touch: Sparks' Leslie, Parker and Milton-Jones Talk About Beijing
Posted Aug 27th 2008 1:00PM by Elie Seckbach (author feed)
Filed under: WNBA, NBA Videos, USA Basketball
Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.
WNBA star Lisa Leslie is one of the greatest American Olympians in history, winning four gold medals in four consecutive Olympics. In this video we catch up with Leslie and two of her Sparks teammates -- Candace Parker and Delisha Milton-Jones -- who teamed up with her on the USA basketball team. Find out which athlete most impressed Parker, and how President Bush supplied the players with some laughs. Also, around the 2:45 mark, find out how the Sparks plan on celebrating the Olympic achievement.
Youtube link.
A Quick Glimpse of Team USA's Training Facility, WNBA Stars Included
Posted Aug 17th 2008 6:42AM by Enrico Campitelli (author feed)
Filed under: Beijing, China, USA
FanHouse blogger Enrico Campitelli Jr. is on the scene in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics.
The U.S. Olympic Team is the only country other than the host nation with their very own training facilities located in Beijing. They've contracted out a relationship with Beijing Normal University to set up the kind of training center our nation's top athletes have come to expect.
During a tour I took of the facilities the other day I got the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the ladies hoops stars -- including Lisa Leslie, Candace Parker, and Diana Taurasi, among others – in the middle of a closed practice.
They seemed light and loose during their shoot around, as they should with the rest of the world struggling to even compete with our dominant women's team.
More photos of the basketball team as well and the men's water polo squad after the jump.
The U.S. Olympic Team is the only country other than the host nation with their very own training facilities located in Beijing. They've contracted out a relationship with Beijing Normal University to set up the kind of training center our nation's top athletes have come to expect.
During a tour I took of the facilities the other day I got the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the ladies hoops stars -- including Lisa Leslie, Candace Parker, and Diana Taurasi, among others – in the middle of a closed practice.
They seemed light and loose during their shoot around, as they should with the rest of the world struggling to even compete with our dominant women's team.
More photos of the basketball team as well and the men's water polo squad after the jump.
Ugly Brawl Makes the WNBA Relevant
Posted Jul 23rd 2008 7:15AM by Matt Watson (author feed)
Filed under: WNBA
Boy, that escalated quickly. I mean, that really got out of hand fast! One moment Plenette Pierson and Candace Parker are jostling for position, and the next Rick Mahorn is shoving Lisa Leslie to the ground and Cheryl Ford is being carted off in a wheel chair.
In other words: one second the WNBA isn't even a speck in the casual sports fan's peripheral vision, and the next it's a guaranteed hot topic in thousands of newspapers, blogs and talk radio shows across the country, not to mention on endless loop on SportsCenter. But hey, all publicity is good publicity, right?
Try telling that to David Stern (or better yet, Mahorn) this morning. But while this is certainly a figurative black eye, I'm guessing all that really comes of this is a bunch of people who never liked the league in the first place cracking a few more jokes. If you must, please don't compare it to the Malice at the Palace just because it happened to take place in Auburn Hills (fans were never even close to being involved) nor Danica vs. Milka just because it involved female athletes (at least actual haymakers were thrown last night, not just towels).
The 2008 Gatorade High School Athlete of the Year Awards
Posted Jul 18th 2008 11:00AM by Elie Seckbach (author feed)
Filed under: Track and Field, Women's Sports, FanHouse TV, The Word
Elie Seckbach, the Embedded Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.
There are over 7.5 million high school student-athletes in the nation and 12 of them were nominated for one of the most coveted awards in sports, The Gatorade Athlete of the Year award. This year's presenters included some big names, Matt Leinart, Greg Oden, Candace Parker, Allyson Felix and Mia Hamm. We were there and caught up with this year's winners.
AOL Video link. Youtube link.
USA Basketball: Lisa Leslie Golden Player
Posted Jul 13th 2008 10:20AM by Elie Seckbach (author feed)
Filed under: Women's Sports, FanHouse TV, The Word
Elie Seckbach, the Embedded NBA Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.
In this exclusive video we hear from basketball star Lisa Leslie who tells us what it takes to win the gold at the Olympics, something she has accomplished three times. This summer in China, Lisa will be joined by her teammate, basketball sensation Candace Parker. Around 2:00 into the video Lisa tells us how she prepares for the summer games and sports has nothing to do with it.
AOL Video link. Youtube link.
Meet the Parkers: The Best of Both Worlds, NBA and WNBA
Posted Jun 27th 2008 10:30AM by Elie Seckbach (author feed)
Filed under: Raptors, NBA Videos, Chicago, Los Angeles, Women's Sports, Toronto, The Word, FanHouse TV, WNBA
Elie Seckbach, the Embedded NBA Correspondent, brings his exclusive NBA reporting to FanHouse. Check back here regularly for more videos.
In this video we catch up with WNBA star Candace Parker who tells us about her dunking ability. You might be surprised to hear what she has to say about it. We also interview her brother, Anthony Parker, the star of the Toronto Raptors. Around 2:15 into the video find out from Candace which sibling is more popular.
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Candace Parker Becomes the Second Woman to Dunk in a WNBA Game
Posted Jun 23rd 2008 1:15PM by Brett Pollakoff (author feed)
Filed under: Women's Sports, WNBA
We don't do much WNBA around these parts, but this is definitely worth checking out. The Sparks' Candace Parker became just the second woman to dunk in a WNBA game, breaking away for the one-handed jam during a home victory yesterday.
Besides the dunk being a semi-historic event, there are a couple of other great things about this video. The announcer for the highlight reel is John Ireland, a sideline reporter for the Lakers who is clearly still bummed about the beating his team took in the NBA Finals, and couldn't care less about Parker's feat. Then there's Sparks' coach Michael Cooper. Coop's been known to say some dumb things in the past, but calling the dunk "exuberating" is really pushing the boundaries of the English language (exhilarating, maybe, coach?). And comparing the dunk to something Michael Jordan might have done? Well, let's just say I'd be in favor of drug testing for head coaches.
[via SbB]
Besides the dunk being a semi-historic event, there are a couple of other great things about this video. The announcer for the highlight reel is John Ireland, a sideline reporter for the Lakers who is clearly still bummed about the beating his team took in the NBA Finals, and couldn't care less about Parker's feat. Then there's Sparks' coach Michael Cooper. Coop's been known to say some dumb things in the past, but calling the dunk "exuberating" is really pushing the boundaries of the English language (exhilarating, maybe, coach?). And comparing the dunk to something Michael Jordan might have done? Well, let's just say I'd be in favor of drug testing for head coaches.
[via SbB]
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