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Nolan Richardson Completes One Season of Hell in WNBA

WASHINGTON -- Time and circumstance have changed the meaning of "40 minutes of hell" for Nolan Richardson. When the concept originated over 20 years ago when he was the biggest name in Arkansas -- save for a certain future president -- Richardson could sit back and watch his Razorbacks harass opponents seemingly from the...

Obama Becomes First President to Attend WNBA Game

WASHINGTON -- Crystal Langhorne airballed her first shot of Sunday's game. It's not the first time that's happened to the Washington Mystics' power forward and it probably won't be the last. But then, not everyone shoots an airball with the Commander-in-Chief in the audience, and for a split second, Langhorne wondered...

Hornbuckle Trade Ends Detroit Ties to Shock

The Detroit Shock are no more. Really no more. The team moved to Tulsa at the end of the 2009 season and on Monday, coach Nolan Richardson ended the era altogether by trading Alexis Hornbuckle to the Minnesota Lynx. Hornbuckle, the Tennessee product, was the last player remaining from the Detroit roster. Last week,...

WNBA Midseason Report Card: East Finally Rises

Is this the year that the Eastern Conference's inferiority complex comes to an end in the WNBA? In 13 years, the Eastern Conference has won three WNBA titles, all by the Detroit Shock, the last coming in 2008. But, with the exception of the extraordinary season of the Seattle Storm, the best basketball in the league this...

'40 Minutes of Hell' Comes to WNBA

Nolan Richardson was doing his research, trying to decide if he wanted to accept the offer of the ownership group trying to bring a WNBA team to Tulsa, asking old friends what it was like to coach in the women's game. One of the phone calls he made was to LSU women's coach Van Chancellor, whom Richardson knew from their...

nolan richardson News From the Web

05/14/12 Nolan Richardson III Found Dead In Tulsa Home Source: ABC - KTUL 8 - Tulsa OK The son of legendary basketball coach Nolan Richardson is found dead in his south Tulsa home Sunday.

Background on nolan richardson

Nolan Richardson (born December 27, 1941) is an American basketball head coach, who was elected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008. He has coached teams to winning a Division I Basketball National Championship, an NIT championship, and a Junior College National Championship.

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