The Home Team: Of Mothers, Daughters, and American Champions - Tapa blanda

This text presents the inspiring story of America's foremost woman basketball player and her remarkable family.

She has been profiled in People, Sports Illustrated, and The New York Times: she is a 1996 Olympic gold medalist and the NBA's spokeswoman for the debut of the first professional women's basketball league. The Home Team is the story of growing up female in the 1990s according to Rebecca Lobo and the person who raised her to become the woman she is: her room. Rebecca writes of her girlhood shooting baskets alone in the family's driveway, of the intense friendships forged on the court, and of being female in a male-dominated sport. RuthAnn provides a thoughtful and candid counterpoint as she reflects on how we can direct our daughters to envision new options without losing sight of old virtues, and instill moral values in an increasingly amoral society. A crisis in both their stories occurs when RuthAnn is diagnosed with breast cancer at the peak of her daughter's collegiate career. In this powerful and moving testament, family values and power feminism meet, inspire, and triumph.