by Rich Wandschneider | May 14, 2024 | Abe Streep, Brothers Three, caitlin clark, Canyon Dreams, LeBron James, Uncategorized
Caitlin Clark will play her first pro basketball game tonight for the Indiana Fever of the Women’s National Basketball Association. In her four years at the University of Iowa she had already broken records and helped create a storm of interest in the women’s game....
by Rich Wandschneider | May 30, 2022 | Abe Streep, apartheid, Arlee Warriors, Lapwai, Mandela, rez ball, Steve Kerr
“Sports is a refuge but not a hiding place from the world of violence.” Golden State Warriors basketball coach Steve Kerr said that in an impassioned press conference right after the Uvalde shootings. Or someone retrieved an old quote to go along with his new press...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 15, 2022 | Abe Streep, basketball, rez ball
When i wrote about the Arlee Warrior basketball team and Abe Streep’s wonderful book about them, Rez ball in Montana, and the problems successful Native high school athletes have making it to and in the college game, I did not know that one of the key players...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 10, 2022 | Abe Streep, basketball, Lapwai, Larry Colton
A year ago, I wrote a blog post I called “Rez Ball.” I gave a little Indian sports background, then a nod to Larry Colton’s book about a Native basketball player he’d followed through the 1992-93 season in Montana, Counting Coup, and I celebrated the 2021 Lapwai Boys...
by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 8, 2022 | Abe Streep, Arlee Warriors, basketball, Lapwai, rez ball
I don’t know when I first heard the term “rez ball,” but I’ve been watching Nixyaawii School on the Umatilla Reservation play basketball for years, and that’s where I got my idea of what it is. It’s more passes than dribbles, move the ball, and offense coming off...
