11-05-2024 17:30 via ocregister.com

Swanson: On Mother’s Day, Sparks’ Dearica Hamby deserves a bouquet

TORRANCE — This Mother’s Day, let’s give Dearica Hamby her flowers.
Dearica, Mama, you are appreciated.
This woman didn’t just give us an all-time sports moment: Her steal and one-legged, 38-foot buzzer-beater-type heave 7.6 seconds before the buzzer in a Las Vegas Aces’ 2019 elimination game. Delirium. Oh, how things will work out unexpectedly.
She also stood up for herself – and, by proxy, for working moms more broadly, any of us who has had our livelihood a
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