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Ladies Court - Women’s Basketball News and Analysis

January 29th, 2008

Top Ten WNBA Games To Watch (Early Season Edition)

When last we saw some WNBA action, the Phoenix Mercury were celebrating their WNBA Finals victory over the Detroit Shock.
But now that we have this whole CBA business out of the way, we can begin thinking about next season. Here’s my Games To Watch for the first few weeks of the season.
Difficulty: You will not […]

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January 29th, 2008

Let there be labor peace!

Slightly over-dramatic, but I’m hopped up on Cocoa Puffs trying to work tonight.
Anyway,  the players and the league finally reached an agreement that can officially start this off-season.
Basics of the deal include:

Player salary and team salary cap increases
Living upgrades — namely, five-year vets no longer have to share rooms on the road.
Revenue sharing agreement remains […]

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January 25th, 2008

You people love your Storm

First off, a hat tip to the Women’s Hoops Blog for this find.
Ain’t this grand? According to an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, season ticket sales for the Storm since the announcement of new ownership for the WNBA franchise, have already exceeded last season’s total. Granted, that has to be a valley since ownership wasn’t […]

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January 24th, 2008

The Dream begins

So as I told you before, it’s official. The newest WNBA franchise finally has a name, colors and logo.
I was thinking it’d be a blue similar to the Atlanta Hawks, but alas, it’s sky blue with red (lightish red for any of you RedVsBlue fans).
Tags: atlanta, atlanta-dream, basketball, basketball-news, marynell-meadors, ron-terwilliger, WNBA, wnba-basketball, wnba-draft, womens-basketball

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January 23rd, 2008

It’s a Dream

The new Atlanta franchise finally has a name.
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, owner Ron Terwilliger confirmed the new name late Tuesday evening.
“It seems to me it’s a really consistent name with Atlanta and its history,” Terwilliger said.
Atlanta City Council president Lisa Borders, an adviser to the team, agreed.
“The name fits Atlanta so well — from […]

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January 21st, 2008

Four NCAA teams to go pink next month

Some NCAA teams will wear pink jerseys and warmups to promote breast cancer awareness in a set of games next month.
According to ESPN.com, NC State, Rutgers, LSU and Georgia are expected to don the hue on Sunday, Feb. 10 as ESPN prepares its tournament coverage with a dry run.
Fans will be encouraged to donate to […]

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January 19th, 2008

She’s staying in Seattle

Well, looks like the city of Seattle’s basketball outlook just keeps getting better and better.
The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Lauren Jackson will play in the WNBA this season, taking only a short break (five games, apparently) to prepare for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
It was suggested the Australian captain might sit out the WNBA […]

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January 19th, 2008

Founder of WBA sues NBA for custody of letter N

(And $500 million.)
One man feels the NBA owes him some respect, some recognition and what I mentioned above (well, I’m not certain about the “N”) and damned if he’s not suing to get it.
Lightning Mitchell (yeah) has filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the National Basketball Association stole his idea for a women’s basketball […]

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January 18th, 2008

UConn’s hurting

If the Huskies can pull off an undefeated season with what happened this week, they deserve it.
Senior starting guard Mel Thomas (pictured) suffered a season-ending knee injury in their game against Syracuse this week.
Thomas, the game’s leading scorer with 15 points, was going for a loose ball in front of the UConn […]

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January 16th, 2008

Free agent season? Wabbit season? Neither.

Tuesday came and went without any new agreement on the WNBA’s collective bargaining agreement, which means teams still cannot sign free agents.
The start of the signing period has been pushed back indefinitely while negotiations are hammered out.
It’s still not so bad… yet. There’s still a decent amount of time between now and the end of […]

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