Archive - Apr 19, 2012

Griner bows out of 2012 Olympic Games

Baylor star Brittney Griner withdrew her name today from consideration from the senior national women's basketball team that will represent the United States at the London Olympics this summer. Griner was named to the Senior National Team pool on Aug. 1, 2011, and was identified as a finalist for the Olympic team on Feb. 13, 2012.

Summitt: 'It's been a privilege'

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Knoxville, TN (Sports Network) - Pat Summitt reflected on her storied career as women's basketball coach at Tennessee on Thursday, one day after it was announced that she would step aside and take a new role as head coach emeritus, and called it a "privilege" to spend nearly four decades guiding the Lady Vols' program.

Pat Summitt -- the early years: A young coach builds a new tradition

"The stare" may have been Summitt's trademark, but it did not define her true personality

PAT SUMMIT PHOTO GALLERY - For those not close to the Tennessee program, the question over the years has come in repetitive fashion from those TV viewers, be they coaches, fans, reporters not involved with women’s coverage: “What’s she really like in person?

“She looks like she is really mean with that stare. She must be really tough to deal with.”