WNBA Basketball

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Former WNBA superstar Sheryl Swoopes will join Esperides for the rest of the Greek league season. The 38-year-old Swoopes agreed to replace Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton, Esperides said on Wednesday. According to the team Web site ...  

SAN FRANCISCO — The Sacramento Monarchs folded on Friday, a shocking and disappointing development for the WNBA and one of its original eight franchises. The decision was largely based on the Maloof family's desire to focus all its energy and efforts on the NBA's Sacramento Kings. Maloof Sports & Entertainment had owned both teams. Now, the WNBA is left scurrying to try to find a new owner for the organization and a suitable market...  

Former Monarch Nicole Powell watches the action form the bench during WNBA game against the Phoenix Mercury at Arco Arena in 2008.Nicole Powell was selected by the New York Liberty on Monday with the first pick of the WNBA Dispersal Draft of Monarchs. Powell was the lone All-Star for the Monarchs in what was their last season in 2009. The team finished with the a record of 12-22, the worst in the WNBA. Monday's draft was held...  

Storm PF Lauren Jackson is returning to the court after suffering two stress fractures in her lower back that cut her WNBA season short. She signed with the WNBL's Canberra Capitals, which raised money to have the Australian star play 13 games.  

Jerome Dyson is averaging 20.2 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists. Stanley Robinson is averaging 17.4 points and 7.3 rebounds. Dyson had 24 points on 9-for-19 shooting Wednesday against Cincinnati. Robinson had 22 points on 9-for-18. Calhoun, while hoping others step up to take some of the burden, is comfortable with both players being such central figures in the offense.  

After an intense, three-week effort failed to enlist Bay Area investors to assume control of the Monarchs, WNBA President Donna Orender on Tuesday delivered the final, perhaps inevitable blow. The Monarchs era is over. Folded, disbanded, dissolved. Or just call it a nasty divorce, minus the attorneys' fees. Ticha Penicheiro, Kara Lawson, Nicole Powell, Chelsea Newton, DeMya Walker, Rebekkah Brunson and Hamchétou Maïga-Ba – all...  

• Jones has been training with San Antonio Silver Stars • San Antonio coach Dan Hughes applauds her for her effortsThe disgraced athlete Marion Jones is aiming to make a fresh start in the WNBA. The San Antonio Silver Stars coach Dan Hughes has confirmed that Jones has been training with his assistants, more than a year after the 34-year-old was released from federal prison for lying about her use of steroids.The New York Times first reported...  

The Minnesota Lynx have hired former Detroit assistant coach and general manager Cheryl Reeve as the team's new head coach. Reeve has spent the past nine years with the Detroit Shock, helping them to three WNBA championships. She came highly re  

JOSÉ LUIS VILLEGAS Bee file, 2008 Ticha Penicheiro said she planned to spend her entire WNBA career with the Monarchs.While awaiting word about a possible Monarchs relocation to the Bay Area, the hangover lingers. No more WNBA in Sacramento. I hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it. I even grudgingly grasp the rationale – the slumping economy and the Kings having sucked the life out of the local franchise – and I still hate it. For those...  

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Former track queen Marion Jones, who spent six months in prison for lying about her doping use during a federal investigation, is working hard on comeback as a professional athlete in WNBA. Yes, Marion wants to become a basketball star! “This is a second chance for me. I missed competitiveness,” Jones said. “I missed the challenges [...]  

Cappie Pondexter poured in 22 points, dished out seven assists and grabbed five rebounds, as the Phoenix Mercury took care of the Indiana Fever, 90-77, in the fourth game of the best-of-five series to force a Game 5 in the WNBA Finals. Penny Taylor ...  

Personal ← Previous revision Revision as of 01:49, 15 November 2009 Line 24: Line 24: ==Personal== ==Personal== - On [[January 13]], [[2006]], the ''[[San Antonio Express-News]]'' reported that Ferdinand was expecting a baby boy in June, and was planning to return to the [[San Antonio Silver Stars]] by July 2006, preferably after the [[WNBA All-Star Game]]. She and Cedrick...  

December 1, 2009 -- Today College women's basketball: Loyola Marymount at San Jose St., 7 p.m. Thursday College women's basketball: UC Davis at Santa Clara, 7...  

January 1, 2010 -- SALT LAKE CITY -- At the start of the season if you said the Utah basketball team might be 6-7 at this point of the season, it wouldn't have seemed...