Category: WNBA

WNBA

Rockets owner eyes WNBA expansion team in Houston

Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta plans to submit a bid to bring a WNBA expansion team back to Houston, the Houston Chronicle reported Thursday. The bid includes using the branding of the Houston Comets, one of the WNBA’s original eight teams

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Phoenix Mercury

Mercury and Storm striving to build momentum for playoffs

The Seattle Storm and Phoenix Mercury are locked into their playoff positions, so they’ll use the regular-season finale as a postseason tune-up when they meet Thursday in Phoenix. The Storm (24-15) have secured the No. 5 seed in the playoffs

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Los Angeles Sparks

Lynx looking to finish strong against fizzling Sparks

The Minnesota Lynx will put their seven-game winning streak on the line Thursday, but not much else when they meet the Los Angeles Sparks in the final regular-season game for both teams in Minneapolis. The Lynx (30-9) are locked into

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Indiana Fever

Hopeful Mystics need win over Fever and some help

Win, wait and hope. That’s all the Washington Mystics can do as their bid to make the playoffs comes down to Thursday’s regular-season finale against the visiting Indiana Fever. Washington (13-26) is one of three teams battling for the eighth

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Chicago Sky

Zero margin for error for Sky against host Sun

Everything is at stake for the Chicago Sky when they meet the Connecticut Sun on Thursday in the regular-season finale for both teams in Uncasville, Conn. The Sun (27-12) have clinched one of the top four playoff spots, but the

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WNBA

WNBA adds 15th franchise with return to Portland

The WNBA on Wednesday announced it has awarded Portland as the league’s 15th franchise. The move comes less than 11 months after WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert wrote a letter to U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), saying that Portland’s bid for

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