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Great Mothers Day story on Candace Parker on espnW today
Most people know Candace Parker can dunk. She was the first female to do it in an NCAA tournament game, and had been dunking since high school.
Most people know Parker, who stands 6-foot-4, can play. In 2008, she became the first player in the WNBA’s 14-year history to win rookie of the year and most valuable player awards in the same season.
But most people don’t know that Parker is redefining how to merge the lives of a mother and superstar pro athlete.
Parker, then 22, shocked players and league officials when she announced her pregnancy with husband and NBA player, Shelden Williams, in January 2009.
Some athletes wait until their careers are established, or until they retire, to have kids. Not Parker. She became a mother just a year after her sparkling pro rookie season, as the biggest name in women’s basketball and with the WNBA promoting her as the league’s star.
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“I’ve never spent a night away from my baby,” Parker said.
That 730-night streak has taken something of a juggling act. Parker plays four months a year in Russia, where her pro team, Ekaterinburg UMMC, just won the Russian league title, and four months a year playing for the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks.
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Kevin Durant gets the most out of his potential because of what he puts in before, during and after the game. Check out Kevin Durant and some of his Thunder teammates in this new Gatorade G Series commercial. Prime, Perform, Recover…The G Series from Gatorade.
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OKLAHOMA CITY ““ The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, began just like any other day at Walker Mill Middle School in Capitol Heights, Md., for seventh-grader Kevin Durant(notes). That is, until he and the other students heard a loud explosion in the distance from their classroom.
Within hours, Durant would learn that American Airlines Flight 77 ““ hijacked by terrorists as part of a plot by Osama bin Laden ““ had crashed into the Pentagon some 12 miles away from his middle school. Nearly 200 people were killed in the attack.
“I heard a big boom and I saw some smoke, and I was like, “˜What?’ “ Durant told Yahoo! Sports on Monday. “They let us out of school early and they said the Pentagon got hit. My mom said [on the phone] she could see the smoke from her job, so I was worried about her. My grandma came and picked me up and we heard planes flying over. Everyone was scared. It was like something out of a movie.
“It was tough for our neighborhood for something to hit so close. Something so important got destroyed and so many people died from it. It was crazy.”
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Check out Kevin Durant in this new Gatorade commercial. Serena Williams. Allyson Felix. Kevin Durant. Tim Howard. They’re all world-class athletes who demand the best from their bodies. And they know that everything they do on the outside starts with what’s inside. So this campaign metaphorically examines the story inside the athletes. What drives them, what fuels them, what pushes them before, during and after their competitions and workouts.
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Congrats to Jamal Crawford for leading the Atlanta Hawks to a first round upset of the Orlando Magic! In about 30 mins per night, Jamal Crawford averaged 20 ppg on 44% shooting from the floor (46% from 3). Instant offense off the bench!
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