Category: News
Steve Solloway: Timeout with a true legend
PUBLISHED March 18, 2011 | News, Sports
Nancy Lieberman will find quite a following waiting when she visits the Portland Expo this weekend. If she can get a ticket to one of the Maine Red Claws games this weekend, Lisa Manning will be in the Portand Expo, watching the woman who is the head coach of the Texas Legends. If she […]
Read moreA new ‘next game’ for Hall of Fame basketball player Nancy Lieberman
PUBLISHED January 11, 2011 | News
Hall of Fame player Nancy Lieberman has traded her basketball sneakers for high heels, but she’s no less determined as she coaches men in the NBA Development League. Reporting from Frisco, Texas — Someone told the girl about Rucker Park in Harlem, told her that all the best players gathered there for pickup games. Harlem […]
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Lieberman Is Back in Men’s Game, in New Role
PUBLISHED December 23, 2010 | News, Sports
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Two and a half hours before tipoff, before a single fan had entered the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum and before she had donned her pink blouse, necklace and high heels, the player who once dared to dribble among men was making her case to be more than one of the […]
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Breaking Barriers in the Sports World
PUBLISHED November 19, 2010 | News
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Nancy Lieberman, Legends ready to go
PUBLISHED November 18, 2010 | News
History will be made tonight when the Frisco-based Texas Legends, the NBA Development League team co-owned by Dallas Mavericks president Donnie Nelson, open their inaugural season with head coach and Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman on the bench. Lieberman, 52, is set to become the first woman to coach a professional men’s basketball team when […]
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Texas Legends NBADL opener: Lieberman set to become first woman to coach NBA affiliate
PUBLISHED November 1, 2010 | News
FRISCO – If it weren’t Nancy Lieberman, this wouldn’t look so natural. A slender 5-8 woman is crouching on a hardwood court gazed upon by a dozen breathing, sweating, balling, human-equivalents of the Sears Tower who also happen to be male, and she’s the one offering rebounding instruction. “This little box-out here, that’s rec league,” […]
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Sitting in the first chair: Nancy Lieberman
PUBLISHED August 16, 2010 | News, Sports
The presence of basketball has been as prominent in the life of Nancy Lieberman as any person over the past 35 years. At age 17, she was tapped to be a member of the U.S. National team and had already won an Olympic silver medal before packing up her Camaro and driving down from her […]
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