Posts by Michelle Smith

Michelle Smith has covered women’s basketball nationally for more than three decades. A 2024 inductee into the U.S. Basketball Writer’s Hall of Fame, Smith has worked for ESPN.com, The Athletic, the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as Pac-12.com and WNBA.com. She 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.

Column: WNBA in the Bay will be worth the long wait

September 28, 2023

VanDerveer: ‘I think it’s going to be awesome’

Institutional Knowledge: Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer talks about grief and excitement in move to ACC

September 2, 2023

‘You invest 40 years into something, and to watch it unravel in 40 minutes, it’s sad’

Institutional Knowledge: For now, women’s basketball is along for the realignment ride

August 28, 2023

Football moves have created major instability for women’s basketball, other NCAA sports

Institutional Knowledge: FIBA looking to elevate its own World Cup in soccer’s shadow

July 30, 2023

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.

Institutional Knowledge: When the WNBA expands, it has to be Oakland

June 11, 2023

Column: With multiple interested parties, and a painful history of having the rug pulled out, Oakland deserves this

Institutional Knowledge: Why did this year’s WNBA cuts resonate so much?

May 24, 2023

‘I hope we see a roster expansion soon because I feel like that’s low-hanging fruit’

Institutional Knowledge: Vanessa Nygaard heading into second season looking for normalcy

May 17, 2023

‘It’s like writing. The first draft is always crap. I’m doing a lot of things differently.’

Institutional Knowledge: The legend replacement plans commence in Seattle and Minnesota

May 11, 2023

A look inside life after Syl and Sue

Closing a door on history: Ruminations on WNBA locker room access

April 12, 2023

One woman in sports media’s experience with locker room access

Column: Even Stanford isn’t immune from the new world order

April 9, 2023

Three Cardinal players, including former No. 1 recruit Betts, enter transfer portal