Articles filed under Pro Women

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  Barrington rider wins 3 show jumping events May 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  Barrington's Lauren Tisbo notched three victories on three different horses at the Old Salem Spring Horse Show II in New York.
  

   

• Bandits add postgame fireworks to June 9 game May 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Chicago Bandits will feature a postgame fireworks show following the June 9 home game against the USSSA Pride.
  

   

• Girl Scouts, Chicago Sky partner to celebrate anniversaries May 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Chicago Sky and Girl Scouts of America will come together at the Sky's June 9 home game to honor the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts and the 40th anniversary of Title IX.
  

   
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  7 key storylines for Sky's 7th season May 24, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Sky plays its home opener against the Indiana Fever on Friday at Allstate Arena in Rosemont. As the team's seventh season gets going, Patricia Babcock McGraw presents seven storylines to follow throughout the WNBA season.
  

   
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  Meet the 2012 Chicago Sky May 24, 2012 12:00 AM
  Meet the 2012 Chicago Sky as Patricia Babcock McGraw offers a capsule preview of the 11-player roster.
  

   

• Sylvia Fowles leads Sky past Mystics, 69-57 May 19, 2012 12:00 AM
  Sylvia Fowles had 23 points and 12 rebounds and helped key a 29-8 first-half run in the Chicago Sky's 69-57 victory over the Washington Mystics on Saturday night in the season opener for both teams. "We still have some wrinkles we have to straighten out, but this was a good start and definitely a test for us to see what we were made of," said Fowles, the reigning WNBA Defensive Player of the Year.
  

   
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  Lynx favored to win WNBA title again May 18, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Minnesota Lynx rolled through the regular season a year ago, then kept on cruising through the playoffs to win the club's first WNBA championship. The bad news for the rest of the league is they've got nearly everyone back and open the new season this weekend as the favorites to win again.
  

   

• Women’s Professional Soccer folds after 3 years May 18, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Women's Professional Soccer league won't be back. The WPS had canceled the 2012 season in January, at the time hoping to return next year. Now U.S. stars such as Abby Wambach and Hope Solo will have to find other ways to stay sharp after the Olympics.
  

   
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  Previewing the WNBA’s Eastern Conference May 18, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   
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  Previewing the WNBA’s Western Conference May 18, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Action aplenty among area teams May 18, 2012 12:00 AM
  Women's Watch on a big weekend in Chicago women's sports that includes the Sky season opener, the NU lacrosse team vying for another trip to the Final Four and the Northwestern and DePaul softball teams starting their NCAA Tournament runs.
  

   

• Penicheiro has the right kind of mileage for Sky May 11, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Sky opens the 2012 season next Friday in Washington against the Mystics, and the plan this season is to go old school this summer to turn over a new postseason leaf. And leading the way will be veteran point guard Ticha Penicheiro, who already has taken the Sky's young guards under her wing, as Patricia Babcock McGraw explains in her weekly Women's Watch column.
  

   
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  Sky releases Naperville’s Wisdom-Hylton May 11, 2012 12:00 AM
  After playing 29 games last season, the Chicago Sky has waived forward Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton and trimmed its WNBA roster to 14 players. Wisdom-Hylton, a Naperville native who as an all-Big Ten performer at Purdue University, was a reserve player in Chicago, averaging 1.7 points and 1.9 rebounds per game. The former Neuqua Valley star played two seasons with Candace Parker and the Los Angeles Sparks before joining the Sky in 2011.
  

   
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  Sky announces its WNBA broadcast schedule May 8, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Chicago Skys broadcast schedule for 2012 includes one national and 27 locally televised contests, with additionals games streamed online via WNBA LiveAccess at chicagosky.net. CN100, part of the Comcast Network, will showcase 15 home and 12 Sky road contests in 2012. Brent Stover will call the play-by-play on all CN100 Sky telecasts and WNBA Live-Access webcasts. Working alongside Stover as color analyst again will be the Daily Heralds Patricia Babcock McGraw, who has covered the Sky since the teams inception.
  

   
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  NASCAR’s 2 female drivers not rivals — or friends May 4, 2012 12:00 AM
  Johanna, meet Danica. Danica, Johanna. Danica Patrick and 19-year-old rookie Johanna Long, NASCARs two female drivers, compete on the race track in an otherwise male-dominated sport. Someday they might even get acquainted.
  

   
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  Sparks sign All-Star Candace Parker to extension Apr 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   
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  With Cash in hand, Sky doesn’t need draft help Apr 13, 2012 12:00 AM
  For the first time in its history, the Chicago Sky won't have a high first-round draft pick. In fact, the Sky has no first-round pick in Monday's WNBA draft. But that's not such a bad thing, according to our WNBA expert, Patricia Babcock McGraw.
  

   
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  Serena Williams wins Family Circle Cup title Apr 8, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   
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  Hiring of CEO revives Augusta membership debate Mar 30, 2012 12:00 AM
  As a club that prides itself on tradition, Augusta National again is in the middle of a membership debate it thought it was done with nearly a decade ago. Just seven days before the Masters, no less. The last four chief executives of IBM a longtime corporate sponsor of the Masters have been members of the exclusive golf club in Augusta, Ga. The latest CEO of the computer giant happens to be a woman. Virginia Rometty was appointed this year.
  

   
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  Venus Williams rallies for win at Key Biscayne Mar 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  Tony Stewart got his second NASCAR victory of the season Sunday when rain shortened the race at Auto Club Speedway by 71 laps. The defending Sprint Cup champion has won seven of the last 15 races in a remarkable stretch of dominance, including Las Vegas last month.