Word: wnba
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After posting the WNBA's best regular-season mark this summer, the Los Angeles Sparks were on the verge of elimination in the conference semifinals. They trailed the three-time defending-champion Houston Comets, 69-67, with under two minutes remaining. Who did the Sparks rely on to hit the game-tying shot...
Although the Sparks went on to lose that WNBA playoff game in heartbreaking fashion, ending their championship hopes, Feaster succeeded in hitting one of the biggest clutch shots of the WNBA season by anyone not named Cynthia Cooper...
...Loudon County. Snyder is a herald of what is to come; a group of tech executives is mobilizing to bring a professional baseball team to northern Virginia--not Washington. Ted Leonsis, an AOL executive, formed a group that bought a majority interest in Washington's NBA, NHL and WNBA franchises. Then Leonsis made it clear he wanted not only to own but to win: he hired Michael Jordan as president of basketball operations for the NBA's Washington Wizards...
...picked up her ball and went home, while her Olympic teammates--including such stars as Lisa Leslie of the Los Angeles Sparks and Chamique Holdsclaw of the Washington Mystics--run the WNBA hardwoods. Edwards will then rejoin them in August to prepare for a gold-medal defense in Sydney. That could prove more grueling than anything the men's Dream Team faces. The women's game is far more competitive at the top, and powerhouse women's teams like Russia and Cuba will make any American outfit earn its medal...
...quick hands and a fluid court movement. She plays without wasted motion, whether passing or weaving through traffic, showing the form that made her the only ABL player to score 40 points in a single game. "It's not a concern to me that I'm not in the [WNBA] this summer," Edwards says. "I think the [Crunch] games are not too far off the pace...