Posts by Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith has covered women’s basketball nationally for more than three decades. A 2024 inductee into the U.S. Basketball Writer’s Hall of Fame, Smith has worked for ESPN.com, The Athletic, the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as Pac-12.com and WNBA.com. She is the 2017 recipient of the Jake Wade Media Award from the Collegiate Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) and was named the Mel Greenberg Media Award winner by the WBCA in 2019.
In just three months, the WNBA’s first expansion team in 17 years will tip-off at the Chase Center in San Francisco and it was not nearly as apparent as it could have been at NBA All-Star weekend
Even the most salary cap space in the WNBA hasn’t been enough of an enticement for top free agents
The Cardinal are 10-9, a far cry from their usual standard, but head coach Kate Paye lauds her team’s positivity
There are plenty of good reasons to join the league’s new expansion team
Ohemaa Nyanin: ‘Do you have a mindset to build?’
Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount have posted their Thursday games, while UCLA’s status for Sunday remains undetermined
Evaluating former Pac-12 teams as they head into their first seasons outside the Conference of Champions
USC and UCLA both appear to be built for something big, maybe even something worthy of a Hollywood script
Smith: ‘I’m happy to beat Stanford and I’m gonna act like it, because that’s a really good team’
Balanced Stanford off to a strong 3-0 start thanks to a 3-point barrage
