Chicago Gets WNBA Franchise
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CHICAGO (Sports Network) - The WNBA announced Tuesday that  they will be adding a new franchise in Chicago that will begin  play in May 2006.
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The Worcester IceCats will move to Peoria, Ill., next season after the sale of the AHL team by the St. Louis Blues is completed.
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NEW YORK -- The Charlotte Sting, who just missed the playoffs last season, won the WNBA draft lottery on Wednesday night. After finishing just two games under .500, the Sting will have the first pick in the WNBA draft in April 2005.
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UNCASVILLE, Conn. -- Candice Dupree and the Chicago Sky, last year's league doormats, are thinking about this season's playoffs.
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The flashy, splashy &quot;Official Guide and Register&quot; from the National Basketball Development League arrived this past week. Funny, though, there was one team missing: the Indiana Pacers.
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Hope could arrive for the Washington Mystics tomorrow if three-time WNBA All-Star Chamique Holdsclaw decides she wants to be activated off the injured list.
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HOUSTON -- Furniture dealer Hilton Koch bought the Houston Comets, making the four-time WNBA champions the league's fifth independently owned franchise.
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Candace Durpree has 20 points and 11 rebounds to help the Sky beat the Lynx, 78-72, giving Chicago back-to-back wins for the first time in franchise history.
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Former Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan agreed to become part owner of the National Basketball Association&#039;s Charlotte Bobcats.
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Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller is buying the Salt Lake Stingers, the Triple A baseball team of the Anaheim Angels.
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The WNBA&#39;S month-long break during August, which accommodated players that took part in the Summer Olympics, had a vastly different effect on the Connecticut Sun and Seattle Storm.
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Phoenix acquires Shaquille O'Neal in deal that sends Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks to Miami.
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The Charlotte Bobcats said Wednesday they have stopped operating the WNBA's Charlotte Sting and turned over control to the NBA-owned women's basketball league, which is in negotiations to sell the franchise.
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D.C. will get an addition to its summertime sports landscape with the arrival of a World TeamTennis franchise,  the Washington Kastles.
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Chicago Sky guard Armintie Price was named the W.N.B.A. rookie of the year yesterday, and Dan Hughes of the San Antonio Silver Stars was honored as the leagueâs top coach.Price, who was drafted third over all, out of Mississippi, started all 34 games and finished third among first-year players in scoring (7.9 points a game) and assists (2.9 a game).Price received 30 votes. Minnesota Lynx guard Lindsey Harding was runner-up with 12 votes, and Los Angeles Sparks guard Sidney Spencer had 10.Hughes, whose Silver Stars won seven more games in 2007 than the year before, becomes the second coach in league history to be named coach of the year award more than once, joining the former Houston Comets Coach Van Chancellor, who won from 1997-1999.
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Val Ackerman, the WNBA&#39;s president since its inception in 1996, will step down, the Sports Business Daily reported Wednesday. ESPN.
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No Diana Taurasi, no Alana Beard. Nicole Ohlde is gone and so is Nicole Powell. Lindsay Whalen and Kelly Mazzante? They've moved on, too. A class that might have been the best in women's basketball is no longer around. It's time for some new stars to emerge.