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What Each WNBA Team Should Do In 2012, Pt. 2: Playoff Teams That Might Not Be Championship Caliber Yet
Swish Appeal regular and resident Washington Mystics fan thewiz06 takes a look at "Category 2 teams: teams built for the postseason, but not the WNBA title just yet". See Part 1 of his series of guest posts for a look at all the categories and where teams fit. The following are what I call...
More Bad News for Atlanta: Carol Ross Becomes Head Coach of Sparks
To hear that former assistant coach Carol Ross of the Atlanta Dream would be heading west to become the head coach of the Los Angeles Sparks was not the news I wanted to hear from the DFO in the off-season. What follows is a collection of very random thoughts. If Queenie can write Random Notes of...
Carol Ross Tapped as New Head Coach of the LA Sparks
The Los Angeles Sparks' campaign of "New Year, New Schedule, New Coach, New Direction" was unveiled today with Carol Ross slated the lead the Sparks. Ross, a four year assistant with the Atlanta Dream, has risen up the coaching ranks in her 20-year career after her basketball beginnings as a...
Ranking the Lynx, Part II
pilight's great post on ranking the Minnesota Lynx definitely caught my eye. As someone who never got a chance to see the great teams of the Houston Comets or the Los Angeles Sparks, I've always been interested in which teams in the WNBA were the best ever.My favorite method - every stathead had...
Becky Hammon & How The San Antonio Silver Stars' Playoff Berth Was Won
While writing a piece about the San Antonio Silver Stars' chemistry back on July 1, I cut out a section about All-Star guard Becky Hammon. It wasn't at all that she didn't belong in a conversation about the Silver Stars' chemistry; it was just an extra 400 words that was just as easily summarized...
Photos: L.A. Sparks Coach Joe Bryant Getting Himself Ejected In 82-65 Loss
As if things weren't bad enough for the Los Angeles Sparks as they were down 15 points to the San Antonio Silver Stars with under a minute left at home with their playoff hopes on the line, coach Joe Bryant tried his hardest to get himself ejected and was ultimately successful. Photographer Craig...
L.A. Sparks Eliminated From Playoffs With 82-65 Loss To San Antonio Silver Stars
The Los Angeles Sparks' 82-65 loss to the San Antonio Silver Stars was a terrible way to be eliminated from the playoffs on multiple levels. There's really not a whole lot more to say about that team than the emotion that was on their faces as their playoff hopes evaporated on their home floor. But...
Tuesday Night Preview & Stats: Sun at Dream, Silver Stars at Sparks
There are only two games tonight, but they a) have significant playoff implications, b) should be good games, and c) feature some of the league's biggest stars. Who: Connecticut Sun at Atlanta Dream When: 7:30 p.m. EDT on WNBA LiveAccess Where: Phillips Arena - Atlanta, GA What: The fourth...
Candace Parker Is Carrying The L.A. Sparks, But They'll Need More To Make 2011 WNBA Playoffs
Shifts in momentum are among the strangest things in basketball, sometimes so intertwined with psychological factors that it's hard to explain precisely what happened. And there's every reason to resist pegging a change in momentum like what happened in the first quarter of the Los Angeles Sparks'...
Seattle Storm's Improving Turnover Rates Help Them Beat L.A. Sparks, Win Fourth Straight
The best thing that happened to the Seattle Storm in the fourth quarter of their 65-63 win against the Los Angeles Sparks last night was Kristi Toliver fouling Sue Bird and sending her to the free throw line for the game-winning free throws. Prior to that point, they shot 20% from the field and had...
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