Posts by Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith has covered women's basketball nationally for nearly three decades. Smith has worked for ESPN.com, The Athletic, the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as Pac-12.com and WNBA.com. She was named to the Alameda County Women's Hall of Fame in 2015, is the 2017 recipient of the Jake Wade Media Award from the Collegiate Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) and was named the Mel Greenberg Media Award winner by the WBCA in 2019.
‘You invest 40 years into something, and to watch it unravel in 40 minutes, it’s sad’
Football moves have created major instability for women’s basketball, other NCAA sports
The FIFA Women’s World Cup has been a major success with major growth, and now it is FIBA’s turn to work on following suit.
Column: With multiple interested parties, and a painful history of having the rug pulled out, Oakland deserves this
‘I hope we see a roster expansion soon because I feel like that’s low-hanging fruit’
‘It’s like writing. The first draft is always crap. I’m doing a lot of things differently.’
A look inside life after Syl and Sue
One woman in sports media’s experience with locker room access
Three Cardinal players, including former No. 1 recruit Betts, enter transfer portal
“It’s crazy … I keep wanting to call somebody and say ‘Tell me how we did this in two years.’ I don’t know.”
