The Selling of Candace Parker.

She’s the total package: your sister’s pal, your brother’s prom date, supermom-to-be. She’s also an MVP—of a league few watch. So can Candace Parker be the female Jordan? Lots of folks are banking on it.
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With baby on way, Parker still wants to play.

“This past year was truly a blessing,” said Parker, who led Central to state basketball titles in 2003 and ‘04. “It was in my plan that 2008 would be a big year. All those things were truly a blessing, and I haven’t had time to appreciate it. “I do have to pinch myself. I was [...]

Best time for Parker to become a mom? Is there one?

Have a baby early on like Parker and you’re forever juggling the responsibilities and demands of motherhood with your career. Not easy, especially as time passes and you’re anxious to push yourself to the next level at work. Have a baby mid-career and you’re forced to slow down, perhaps even stop altogether, just when things [...]

Candace Parker eagerly awaits motherhood.

Candace Parker spoke with a non-stop giggle in her voice. She is in Chicago, staying with her family as she prepares for the birth of her first child with her new husband, Sacramento Kings basketball player Shelden Williams. Parker on Friday talked publicly for the first time since announcing she and Williams, who eloped last [...]

Face of WNBA puts family first: Candace Parker makes no apologies for her decision to have a child at the expense of her WNBA career.

The Los Angeles Sparks’ Candace Parker is carrying a child this year when she was being counted on to carry a league. If the WNBA is not roundly thrilled with her pregnancy, which became public earlier this month, Parker has decided she can live with that.http://www.startribune.com/sports/lynx/38264694.html?elr=KArksi8cyaiUo8cyaiUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

Sparks’ Candace Parker is pregnant.

No due date was disclosed, but Sparks General Manager Penny Toler says she thinks Parker can return well before the season ends. “All in all,” Toler said, “things line up well for us. . . . We don’t start practice until May 17. And I preface this by assuming everything goes [...]

Parker aims for historic trifecta with playoffs set to begin.

If 2008 isn’t already the year of Candace Parker in women’s basketball, it will be if the rookie forward can lead the Los Angeles Sparks to the WNBA championship. Parker and the No. 3 seed Sparks on Friday begin the quest for their first championship since titles in 2001 and 2002 in a Western Conference [...]

Playoffs Open With Parker Chasing a Triple Crown.

If the chips now fall correctly, during a season in which they have not always done so, Candace Parker will soon be celebrating a personal triple crown amid a collaborative backdrop. Parker, the Los Angeles Sparks rookie forward who has helped rejuvenate interest in women’s professional basketball, is taking aim at becoming the first woman [...]

Parker is already standing tall, and has room to grow.

“It’s evolved into something special,” said Dawn Staley, the former WNBA star and US Olympian. “To see Candace grow and to see Candace do what she does is an incredible thing around the world. But things are better and our future incredible when you have someone like Candace who does what she does with her [...]

On Candace camera: Parker steps onto global stage with the world at her feet.

This is her start. Sure, she starred at Naperville Central, won two NCAA titles at Tennessee and was picked first in the WNBA draft. Fine. Great. The Olympics are still the big moment for women’s basketball. This is where we start to find out how big Parker can be. Can she be as big as [...]