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How this Scarborough man rose to the WNBA executive ranks

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Inside Travis Charles’ office, it doesn’t take long to see where the vice president of basketball operations for the WNBA’s Dallas Wings is from. If the flag on the wall doesn’t give it away, the Blue Jays cap on the locker probably should. “I’m shouting from the mountaintops that I’m Canadian,” said Charles. “You walk … Read more

For the WNBA’s Noel Quinn, the African camp was bigger than basketball

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SEATTLE – Once the invitation was extended, there was no way Noelle Quinn could say no. For some time now, her friend Monica Rogers, who is driving NBA Elite Basketball Women’s Operations Division, approached Storm’s coach about traveling to Senegal for the NBA Women’s Camp – teaching basketball and leadership skills to 25 of the … Read more