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Photo. MERLELYNN LANGE
Playing in France
The job and location might sound glamorous, but there's one thing about playing basketball professionally in France that Merlelynn Lange doesn't like:
It simply isn't challenging enough.
Lange, a former Lady Rebel star, recently began a nine-month season with a Division I-B team in Calais, France. Like the name implies, Division I-B is a step below Division I-A and it's not where Lange hopes to stay.
Her competition is not so much the other team as it is the other team's one permitted foreign player _ who, like Lange, is usually a center.
"It's good, but it isn't quite what I expected," Lange said during a recent telephone interview. "International and European basketball is very different than American. It's not quite as intense as it was in college, although it is when you're guarding the...