(Nancy) Lieberman vs. Obama: It's On!

Nancy Lieberman - who is about as famous as you can get in women's basketball - has challenged President Barack Obama to a basketball game.

Well, not exactly:

That’s right. Today I am declaring myself eligible for the presidential pickup games. Please allow me to present my credentials. I am no stranger to being on court with the boys. In high school and college, I played pickup with guys at Harlem’s Rucker courts and also played in summer leagues with NBA stars from the L.A. Lakers and the Utah Jazz (and I’m still pals with those teams’ then-coaches, Pat Riley and Frank Layden). I was also the first and only female player in the all-male United States Basketball League. I’ve played against the most famous team in the world, the Harlem Globetrotters. I'm fortunate to have been an Olympic silver medalist in women's basketball, and honored to be a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Plus, your right-hand man Reggie Love, the former college basketball star who plays in your games, can vouch for my reputation as a former college player who still has serious skills.

You'd better bring your game, Barack. That's all I gotta say.

Ask Nancy Lieberman About the Dream

Nancy Lieberman sums up the various teams of the Eastern Conference

Here's what she has to say about the Dream:

The surprise team of the East has to be the Atlanta Dream. Their personnel is outstanding. Marynell Meadors is in that grouping of two or three Coach of the Year candidates, what she has done with her personnel has been brilliant. They’re athletic, they’re long, they’re deep and Holdsclaw gives them that player that can make plays. You have to have a player that when everything falls apart there is someone that can make a play. You didn’t draw it up, you can’t coach it, you just applaud it – and Holdsclaw is that player. She can get you 10-12 points in a quarter just by being absolutely brilliant.

They have been injury free for most of the season. Their defense is good enough. It’s not great, but it’s good enough and the reason why is that they are such a tremendous rebounding team that sometimes they rebound so well that some of the deficiencies defensively are not exposed because of the pure size that they have. Look at what de Souza and Sancho Lyttle have done.

They had the experiment with Nikki Teasley and that failed and they are lucky it didn’t’ cost them anything to bring back Ivory Latta. The experiment of Coco Miller at the point didn’t really work either and Ivory has just given them what they need. They push tempo, they take what you give them on offense, and they get into a good rhythm.

Their personnel is all driven, they are all driven to win, and they are deep. Michelle Snow comes off of the bench; Angel McCoughtry comes off of the bench; these guys are just really good. They are not a great passing team but they are a great one-on-one team and they are just hard to play against.

If you're interested in the other teams, just follow the link.

Nancy Lieberman and Man--uh, "World Ventures"

Nancy Lieberman is joining World Ventures. World Ventures is a home based travel agency, whatever that is. And it is fully legit, really.

But what about Mannatech, Lady Magic? What about Mannatech?

Who's That in Yahoo Search?

From YaHoo! front page, July 26, 2008, 11:46 PM Eastern Time.



Look at #5. Maybe having Lady Magic in wasn't such a bad idea after all.

"Down with the Shah!"

When Nancy Lieberman's pro career began....

...there was still a USSR.
...Jimmy Carter was stil in office.
...Terry Bradshaw was still quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
...the Hockey "Miracle on Ice" had taken place in the Winter Olympics.
...Robert Mugabe had just become Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
...Iron Maiden had released their debut album.
...there was still a place called "Yugoslavia".
...Mount St. Helen's went off.
..."CNN" had just been launched.
...Lech Walesa had just launched his first strike in Poland.
...Sue Bird was a baby.
...The Empire Strikes Back had been released.
...Pink Floyd still had Roger Waters.
...Eddie Murphy was still on Saturday Night Live.
...David Letterman's first attempt at a talk show had been cancelled.
...the Apple II was the top of the line in personal computers.

So if someone woke up from a deep 28-year sleep and read this headline, what do you think their next question would be?