AFLW Grand Final a 'lightning carnival'
THE omens could not be better for the AFLW’s Adelaide Crows when co-captain Erin Phillips and star 2019 recruit Jessica Foley lead them onto Adelaide Oval on Sunday for the Grand Final.
Now Rangers avoid extinction
BREATHE a sigh of positive relief. Dandenong Rangers, one of the WNBL’s iconic and most successful clubs, looks likely to have been saved and should soon reveal Cheryl Chambers as its new coach.
Prodigal daughter home for Lightning
ADELAIDE Lightning’s biggest new signing for its 2019-20 WNBL campaign, Steph Talbot, admits a small part of her felt delight when her old club won its 2018-19 semi final and stormed into the grand final.
FFT: That's a 2018-19 Wrap!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: What does it say about our NBL when Andrew Bogut can go straight from a season with Sydney Kings into the starting lineup of reigning two-time NBA champion Golden State Warriors?
Loz back to bolster Lightning
ADELAIDE Lightning star Lauren Nicholson is excited at the club's new ownership, direction and its decision to retain coach Chris Lucas for a further three years, prompting her to sign a new WNBL contract.
Where have you been??
YES I know. It seems as if I’d gone on annual leave or something and at a time when SO much was happening and has happened in our insular little basketball world. But I’m back. And here’s what I missed ... or what I need to get out of my computer.
Caps starters five of the finest
CANBERRA Capitals’ starting quintet for Saturday’s WNBL Championship decider easily is one of the all-time finest in league history.
Miracle buzzer-beater sends WNBL to Game 3
NICOLE Seekamp tonight scored a sensational buzzer-beater to send Adelaide Lightning into a deciding Game 3 in its WNBL Grand Final Series against a desperately unlucky Canberra.
Omens favour a Light rebuttal
IT'S February 13, the Canberra Capitals are chasing their 13th straight WNBL win and their last loss was in Adelaide to Lightning. If superstition or omens are worth anything, they definitely favour Adelaide tying the best-of-three Grand Final Series 1-1 tonight.
FFT: Does anyone want to finish 4th?
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: FOR weeks, Brisbane held the door to the Final Four open for Adelaide and the 36ers refused to oblige. Then the Bullets shot themselves in the foot and the 36ers did find a way in. So last Sunday, when the Sixers could have shut the door, they instead very politely kept it ajar for Brisbane.

