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Watch Your Back

By Sally Jenkins
ESPN The Magazine

Monday, November 15, 1999

No one is safe anymore in women's basketball. Back when players wore Lady Pro-Keds and jumped with all the elevation of tree trunks, you knew Tennessee was going to win another championship -- and if not Tennessee, then Old Dominion or Louisiana Tech. The sport wasn't exactly a thrill a minute, but there was comfort in certainty. Now the intruders are everywhere -- ladykillers like Purdue and Duke -- just waiting to leap out and put an untimely end to somebody's season. This isn't a matter of ...

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