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Feaster, a 2004 WNBA All-Star for the Charlotte Sting, was the leader of a Crimson team that scored the biggest upset in college basketball history—a toppling of No. 1-seed Stanford in the first round of the 1998 NCAA tournament...
Fueled by emptiness, looking for resolution, staring blankly, you manage to stand it. You talk to your friends in the pit, fist-pumping for what seems like an hour straight, and make jokes asking them if this is the riot for the WNBA Championship...
...sure. And DiCicco is fighting more than the WUSA's history. Despite record numbers of girls participating in sports and U.S. dominance in soccer, softball and basketball on the international stage, four of the five major women's professional leagues launched since 1996 have folded. (Only the WNBA, the women's basketball league subsidized by the NBA, remains. The American Basketball League, the Women's Pro Softball League and United States Professional Volleyball have, like the WUSA, gone under.) Plus, the WUSA is trying to come back when it's losing its Michael Jordan: Hamm is hanging up her cleats...
...waste your time.'" And even the one-year numbers are more conservative. For example, when the WUSA debuted, top players were paid salaries of up to $93,000. Says league player representative John Langel: "I don't see that happening again." (By comparison, the 2002 maximum salary in the WNBA, a more established, healthier league, was about...
These qualities, Peljto hopes, will propel her to success in European professional basketball—she recently signed with Cavigal Nice, a club based in Nice, France—and perhaps ultimately to the WNBA...