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US Women Defeat Spain, Advance to FIBA Gold Medal Game

In the run-up to the FIBA women's world championships, the conventional wisdom held that the United States figured to see a steady diet of zone defenses, as the Americans' Achilles heel seemed to be its outside shooting. So much for conventional wisdom, as the U.S. connected on six of its first seven three-pointers in...

Seattle's Lauren Jackson Headlines All-WNBA Team

League MVP Lauren Jackson led the five-member All-WNBA First Team, released on Monday. Seattle's Jackson, the leading vote-getter, shared first-team honors with New York's Cappie Pondexter and Indiana Fever forward Tamika Catchings. Diana Taurasi and Chicago Sky center Sylvia Fowles rounded out the first team. Storm...

WNBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: Beasts Back in the East

In a different time, the Eastern Conference of the WNBA was as lightly regarded as the East of the NBA, mainly a speed bump for the West on the way to the league title. But that was your mother's East. Today, the rugged portion of the WNBA is all east of the Mississippi. To wit, while Seattle finished the season with the...

Washington Breaks Three-Way Tie in WNBA East

The WNBA playoff picture is set, and it went right down to the final day of the regular season. Three teams in the Eastern Conference went into the day tied for first place. And the Washington Mystics were the team that emerged on top, needing a 90-81 win over the playoff-bound Atlanta Dream in order to secure the No. 1...

Seattle's Lauren Jackson a Step Above the Rest, Deserves MVP

Who's going to be the MVP? Will it be Tamika Catchings, who is doing everything she can down this stretch of the season to put the Fever in position for another run at the WNBA Championship? Will it be Lauren Jackson, who did everything she could over the first two-thirds of the season to lead the Seattle Storm to one of...

Tamika Catchings News From the Web

05/29/12 Catchings, Parker earn WNBA weekly honors Source: NBC - WGRZ 2 - Buffalo NY Indiana's Tamika Catchings and Los Angeles' Candace Parker have been named the WNBA's Eastern and Western Conference players of the week, respectively, for games played May 18-27.
05/22/12 How Catchings Caught Hoops Fever Source: NBC Olympics London marks the third Olympic Games for Tamika Catchings , who will be the oldest on the U.S. women's basketball squad at 33.
05/19/12 Indiana Fever outshoot Atlanta Dream in WNBA opener at... Source: The Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis IN Most basketball shortcomings -- rebounding, turnovers, defense -- can be easily negated.
05/19/12 Equal pay? Not on the basketball court Source: LoHud.com - White Plains NY INDIANAPOLIS (USA TODAY) â How much is one chromosome worth?
05/19/12 Summer Olympics preview: Even top WNBA players trail... Source: The Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis IN For a basketball player, it can be more than $200 million.

Background on Tamika Catchings

Tamika Devonne Catchings (born July 21, 1979 in Stratford, New Jersey) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the WNBA and Turkish team Galatasaray.

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