November 16, 2007

Off the Field, Athletes Learn Lessons in Spin

By LIBBY SANDER

Her 6-foot-1 frame folded into a chair, the hoops phenom flashes a stricken glance at the camera and covers her face with her hands.

"I'm so nervous," she says.

"Why are you nervous?" says the man behind the microphone. The blond ponytail lifts. "Because everybody's looking at me when I'm talking."

So begins an afternoon news conference in the media room of Drexel University's athletics complex here: camera rolling, microphone switched on, and a watchful

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