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Christie Sides
Christie Sides (born January 17, 1977) is an American basketball head coach, most recently for the Indiana Fever of the WNBA. Sides has previously been an assistant coach for the Fever, Chicago Sky, and Atlanta Dream in the league. She has also been an assistant coach at the collegiate level. Early life and education Sides grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and attended Central Private High School. She played basketball and was named the Louisiana Gatorade Player of the Year for her senior year. She finished her high school career with 3,375 points. Following her high school career, she attended Ole Miss and Louisiana Tech. While at Louisiana Tech, Sides helped the Lady Techsters reach the 1999 Final Four. Coaching career Sides began her coaching career at Ruston High School as an assistant coach for the varsity team. She also served as the head JV coach for 2 seasons. Following that, Sides returned to her alma mater and became an assistant at Louisiana Tech. She then moved on to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Indiana Fever
The Indiana Fever are an American professional basketball team based in Indianapolis. The Fever compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) a member of the Eastern Conference (WNBA), Eastern Conference. The team was founded for the 2000 WNBA season. The team is owned by Herbert Simon (real estate), Herb Simon, the founder of Simon Property Group. The Fever have qualified for the WNBA Playoffs in 14 of its 25 seasons in Indiana. In 2009 WNBA Finals, 2009, the Fever reached the WNBA Finals but fell short to the Phoenix Mercury in game 5. In 2012 WNBA Finals, 2012, the Fever won the WNBA Finals with a 3–1 series victory over the Minnesota Lynx. Tamika Catchings was named the WNBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award, 2012 Finals MVP. In 2015 WNBA Finals, 2015, the Fever again reached the WNBA Finals but fell short to Minnesota Lynx, Minnesota in game 5. Some of the players who have helped define the history of the Fever include Tamika Catchings, Katie Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pokey Chatman
Dana "Pokey" Chatman (born June 18, 1969) is currently an assistant coach for the Seattle Storm in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Chatman is the former head coach of the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky of the WNBA. She is also the former head coach of the LSU Lady Tigers basketball team and the WBC Spartak Moscow Region, Spartak Moscow women's basketball team. Chatman spent the first 20 years of her adult life at LSU as a player (1987–1991), student assistant (1991–1992), assistant coach (1992–2004) and head coach (2004–2007). After succeeding longtime coach Sue Gunter in 2004, Chatman led the Lady Tigers to three consecutive NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship, NCAA Final Fours in 2004 (as acting head coach for the ailing Gunter), 2005, and 2006. Chatman resigned from her post at LSU on March 7, 2007, amid allegations of an inappropriate relationship with a former player that were alleged to have begun when Chatman was coaching the player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters Basketball Players
Louisiana ( ; ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Deep South and South Central United States, South Central regions of the United States. It borders Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, and Mississippi to the east. Of the List of U.S. states, 50 U.S. states, it ranks List of U.S. states and territories by area, 31st in area and List of U.S. states and territories by population, 25th in population, with roughly 4.6 million residents. Reflecting its French Louisiana, French heritage, Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed List of parishes in Louisiana, parishes, which are equivalent to County (United States), counties, making it one of only two U.S. states not subdivided into counties (the other being Alaska and its List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska, boroughs). Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Baton Rouge is the state's capital, and New Orleans, a French Louisiana region, is its most populous city with a population of about 363,000 people. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Indiana Fever Coaches
Indiana ( ) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the south and southeast, and the Wabash River and Illinois to the west. Nicknamed "the Hoosier State", Indiana is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the Union as the 19th state on December 11, 1816. Indigenous resistance to American settlement was broken with defeat of the Tecumseh's confederacy in 1813. The new settlers were primarily Americans of British ancestry from the eastern seaboard and the Upland South, and Germans. After the Civil War, in which the state fought for the Union, natural gas attracted heavy industry and new European immigrants to its northern counties. In the first half of the 20th century, northern and central sections experienced a boom in goods m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chicago Sky Coaches
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the county seat, seat of Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents. Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a Chicago Portage, portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Basketball Players From Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's Basket (basketball), hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a Backboard (basketball), backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A Field goal (basketball), field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the 3 point line, three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (Overtime (sports), overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
American Women's Basketball Coaches
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Living People
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1977 Births
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 – 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. * January 23 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2024 WNBA Playoffs
The 2024 WNBA playoffs was the WNBA playoffs, postseason tournament of the Women's National Basketball Association's 2024 WNBA season, 2024 season. The playoffs began on September 22, 2024, and ended on October 20, 2024 with the New York Liberty winning their first championship. Overview Updates to postseason appearances * The 2024 Connecticut Sun season, Connecticut Sun entered the postseason for the eighth consecutive season, the longest active postseason appearance streak in the WNBA. * The 2024 Las Vegas Aces season, Las Vegas Aces entered the postseason for the sixth consecutive season. * The 2024 New York Liberty season, New York Liberty entered the postseason for the fourth consecutive season. * The 2024 Atlanta Dream season, Atlanta Dream entered the post season for the second consecutive season. * The 2024 Minnesota Lynx season, Minnesota Lynx entered the postseason for the second consecutive season. * The 2024 Phoenix Mercury season, Phoenix Mercury returned to the pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2024 Indiana Fever Season
The 2024 Indiana Fever season was the franchise's 25th season in the WNBA, and their second season under head coach Christie Sides. The regular season tipped off against the Connecticut Sun in Connecticut on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. The Fever won the 2024 WNBA Draft Lottery and were awarded the first overall pick for the second year in a row; they used it to select Caitlin Clark. The number one pick did not lead to a fast start to the season as the Fever lost their first five games, the closest of which was a two-point loss to Seattle on May 22. The Fever would win their next game against Los Angeles to earn their first win of the season. They would go on to lose their next three games, including a rematch against Los Angeles to finish the opening month 1–8. June brought about a vast improvement from the team. They defeated Chicago by one point to open the month. They lost to New York, defeated Washington, and then lost to Connecticut before going on a four game winning streak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
