Officially approved by the NBA Board of Governors on April 24, 1996, the creation of the WNBA was announced at a press conference with Rebecca Lobo, Lisa Leslie, and Sheryl Swoopes in attendance.

The WNBA centered its marketing campaign, dubbed " We Got Next ", around stars Rebecca Lobo, Lisa Leslie and Sheryl Swoopes.

When the WNBA opened in 1997, the Liberty was one of the first teams to choose a player, and they signed college superstar Rebecca Lobo ( University of Connecticut ) to a contract.

The Sun underwent a total overhaul during the offseason – selecting Debbie Black in the Miami Sol / Portland Fire dispersal draft and acquiring former Connecticut star Rebecca Lobo to add another local attraction to join Nykesha Sales.

On April 12, 2003, Rebecca changed her last name from Lobo to Lobo-Rushin after marrying Sports Illustrated writer Steve Rushin at the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts.

They also founded the RuthAnn and Rebecca Lobo Scholarship, which offers a scholarship to the UConn School of Allied Health for Hispanic students.

Rebecca Lobo led the Connecticut Huskies to a NCAA Championship in 1995, but never recovered from a torn ACL and had a disappointing professional career.

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Auriemma is also known for cultivating individual players, and the Ten multiple-All-America players — Rebecca Lobo, Jennifer Rizzotti, Kara Wolters, Nykesha Sales, Svetlana Abrosimova, Sue Bird, Swin Cash, Diana Taurasi, Tina Charles and Maya Moore — whom Auriemma has coached have combined to win six Naismith College Player of the Year awards, six Wade Trophies, and seven NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player awards.

Rushin is married to college basketball analyst and former basketball player Rebecca Lobo.

" And so Rebecca Lobo invited me to watch her team, the New York Liberty, play at Madison Square Garden.

* 1995 – Rebecca Lobo, UConn

* Dawn Staley, Katy Steding, Sheryl Swoopes, Katrina McClain, Nikki McCray, Carla McGhee, Venus Lacy, Lisa Leslie, Rebecca Lobo, Jennifer Azzi, Ruthie Bolton, and Teresa Edwards — Basketball, Women's Team Competition

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* 1982: Ivanhoe, a television movie starring Anthony Andrews as Ivanhoe, Michael Hordern as his Cedric, Sam Neill as Sir Brian de Bois-Gilbert, Olivia Hussey as Rebecca, James Mason as Isaac, Lysette Anthony as Rowena, Julian Glover as King Richard, and David Robb as Robin Hood.

She starred as Rebecca Winstone in the television series Missing in 2012.

Rebecca De Mornay ( born August 29, 1959 ) is an American film and television actress.

* Rebecca Quick ( born 1972 ), nicknamed Becky, an American television journalist / newscaster

* Rebecca Gayheart, a television and film actress

* Lori Loughlin, actress on the hit television family-comedy series Full House, played the role of Rebecca Donaldson, 1988 – 1995

In 1995, while working on the television series Full Frontal, Bana began dating Rebecca Gleeson, a publicist with the Seven Network and daughter of then Chief Justice of New South Wales, and later Chief Justice of Australia, Murray Gleeson.

Rebecca Rose Lobo-Rushin ( born October 6, 1973 ) is an American television basketball analyst and former women's basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ) from 1997 to 2003.

His most notable television appearance was on Cheers in its last season as Rebecca Howe's blue collar-plumber love interest, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award for " Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series ".

Rebecca Fogg is a fictional character created for the science fiction television series The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne and is Phileas Fogg's second cousin.

He directed the television film The Key to Rebecca ( 1985 ), an adaptation of Ken Follett's 1980 novel of the same name.

Simpson murder case, her most high-profile prosecution was in 1991, when she prosecuted Robert John Bardo for the murder of television star Rebecca Schaeffer.

He also starred in the television adaptation of Ken Follett's wartime drama The Key to Rebecca ( 1985 ) directed by David Hemmings.

* Rebecca Gayheart, television and movie actress.

Rebecca " Becky " Blasband is a singer-songwriter and screenwriter known as a cast member on The Real World: New York, the first season of MTV's reality television show The Real World.

Currently, Emily is studying psychology, Rebecca is a television producer / journalist, and Joshua is a doctor.

Notable people with a connection to Leigh-on-Sea include Lee Brilleaux, musician ; Michael Wilding, actor ; Phil Cornwell, comedian and impressionist ; Tina Cousins, singer ; Scarlett Montanaro, singer / actress ; John Fowles, author ; Melvyn A. Goodale, scientist ; Phill Jupitus, television presenter and comedian ; David Lloyd, tennis player and businessman ; John Lloyd, cartoonist Frank Minnitt, tennis player and commentator ; Helen Mirren, actress ; Lee Stafford, celebrity hairdresser ; Vivian Stanshall, artist and musician ; Cheekyboy, DJ / Mashup Producer ; Hannah Tointon, actress ; Kara Tointon, actress ; Rebecca West, literary figure ; Kierston Wareing, actress, Peter Sallis, actor.

In 2009-2012, she played Rebecca Pryce, wife of Lane Pryce in the hit AMC's television show Mad Men.

* In 2009, The Witches of Eastwick was adapted into a television series on ABC, this one entitled Eastwick, with Lindsay Price, Jaime Ray Newman and Rebecca Romijn as the three witches.

Rebecca Howe ( formerly Howe-Santry ) is a fictional character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by Kirstie Alley.

A syndicated television columnist from Chicago dubbed Rebecca as redundant and " annoying ", especially in the seventh season ( 1988 – 1989 ).

* Reuben Flagg, born in 2000 at Hammarskjold Center, Mars, to Axel and Rebecca Flagg, was a stand-up comic and popular television star of the show Mark Thrust, Sexus Ranger.

In 2012, HBO, BBC, and VRT produced a television adaptation written by Tom Stoppard and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall.

Rebecca Jo Budig () ( born June 26, 1973 ) is an American actress and television presenter, best known for her role as Greenlee Smythe Lavery on the ABC soap opera All My Children.

A new Auburn High School opened on Drury Square in the center of town directly next to the old high school in the fall of 2006, equipped with turfed fields, to include the football field ( Memorial Field ) all-purpose field, baseball field, and a grass softball field ( Rebecca J. Colokaithis Field ), as well three new tennis courts and a basketball court ( Holstrom Corner ).

Through a donation by alumni John and Rebecca Moores in 1992, the basketball locker rooms were enlarged and equipped with personal lockers for each player.

The former Mayor ( Diana Longrie ) and former Council ( Rebecca Cave, Erik Hjelle, Kathy Juenemann, and Will Rossbach ) have garnered metro-area attention in recent years for a number of issues.

He was survived by his wife, the former Rebecca Jane Dalton, their two children and several grandchildren.

The event was also attended by former Knight Rider cohorts Rebecca Holden ( April Curtis in Season 2 ) and Peter Parros ( Reginald Cornilius III ( RC3 ) in Season 4 ) and Michael Scheffe, the designer of KITT.

The story featured a property developer, and former girlfriend of Fonzie called Miss Frost ( Rebecca Gibney ) wanting to buy the diner and redevelop it.

Rebecca Alie Romijn ( ;, born November 6, 1972 ) is an American actress and former fashion model.

Clifford has since represented various clients, including: David Copperfield ; Mohamed Al-Fayed ; Simon Cowell ; brain-damaged boxer Michael Watson ; Liverpool left-wing politician Derek Hatton, for whom Clifford created an affair in order to change his image ; former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson ; Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, who was imprisoned for fatally shooting a burglar ; Rebecca Loos, when she negotiated with the press about her alleged affair with England football captain David Beckham ; Cheryl Cole ; Celebrity Big Brother 2007 winner Shilpa Shetty ; and Jade Goody, in the period of the reality star's cervical cancer and death.

In a 2007 interview, Salon Life staff writer Rebecca Traister discussed Donohue with Frances Kissling, former head of the organization Catholics for Choice, which opposes Catholic teaching on abortion, who characterized Donohue as " abusive ", and stated she avoided doing media interviews with him for this reason.

Bridget's parents divorced and Peter remarried Portia Rebecca Crockett ( former wife of author Thomas McGuane ).

It later becomes evident that York's inability to commit and his instinct for romantic cruelty derives from conflicting feelings about his adoptive mother who is a former prostitute, played by Rebecca Pan ; and his biological mother, a Filipino aristocrat.

* Rebecca Pan – Rebecca, a former prostitute who raises Yuddy.

Other Levin appointees who have left to head other universities include Richard Brodhead, a former dean of Yale College, who left to become the president of Duke University, and Rebecca Chopp, a former dean of the Yale Divinity School, who left Yale to take the helm of Colgate University and is currently president of Swarthmore College.

In March 2002, Skilling married Rebecca Carter, a former vice president for board communications and board secretary at Enron.

Betsy Ross was born to Samuel Griscom and the former Rebecca James in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on January 1, 1752, the eighth of seventeen children.

The Rebecca Rish Gay Award and Walter E. Gay Award are given to the " Athletes of the Year " and are named after the parents of former President Daughdrill ’ s wife, Libby Daughdrill.

In June 1987 he married the former Rebecca Ellen Dora of Vincennes, Indiana.

The Hammerlock wrestling school has produced some of the top names in England ranging from former NWA World Heavyweight Champion Gary Steele, Doug Williams, Johnny Moss, Fergal Devitt, Rebecca Knox, Katie Lea, Zack Sabre Jr, Danny Garnell and many more.

Rebecca " Becky " Ryan a former two-time Little Ms. America, multiple time Teenager of the Year, and platinum selling pop star, Ryan now has the ability to shape-shift.

As revealed in DC Comics Presents # 28 ( 1980 ), Johnny eventually retired from action, marrying the similarly-retired outlaw ( and another All-Star Western feature ) Madame. 44 ( Jeanne Walker ), and the couple bore a daughter, Rebecca, and a son, Chuck ; by presumed coincidence, Chuck Taine ( with an I ) is the real name of Bouncing Boy of the Legion of Super-Heroes, but it has never been suggested in-canon that the latter is a descendant of the former.

Personalities to own a DW medal are former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Paddy Ashdown, explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, double Olympic gold medallist rower James Cracknell and Rebecca Stephens, the first woman to climb Everest solo.