Posted on 02/18/2009 9:09:41 AM PST by CMoran325
Just yesterday I read about 22-year-old WNBA star Candace Parker, a player considered essential to the success of the league, who is expecting a baby in the spring. She is not the first WNBA star to have a child mid-career -- Lisa Leslie missed an entire season when she had a child -- but as the "new face" of the league there has been some grumbling by some fans and sports writers that Parker is letting everyone down. But overall, the league and coaches and teammates have been supportive.
Parker told the Los Angeles Times that she wanted her children to grow up witnessing the athletic career of their young mother rather than arriving after it ends, and the league commissioner acknowledged that. “Candace can be a very usable symbol of how you can have a family and a career.”
Chances are that Parker
(Excerpt) Read more at lovehateoprah.com ...
That’s one way to look at it — or maybe you’re an insecure ape who always has to point out male dominance.
(Hey, I tried to be civil and yet you still insist upon being contentious.)
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