Friday, August 9, 2013

Sky, Silver Stars and Mercury win

Tonight's results:

The Sky beat the Sun, 77-61.

The Silver Stars blew out the Storm, 77-56.

The Mercury held off the Shock, 70-67.

Brittney Griner sprained her ankle in Phoenix's game against Seattle the other night, and did not play this evening.

Team news:

Fever....overcoming cancer in college has made Jessica Breland stronger.

Sparks....so far the MVP race is the Candace Parker show.

SparKemistry.

Shock....rookie Skylar Diggins celebrated her birthday last week with a lot of tweets, and a win.

Silver Stars....Delisha Milton-Jones has left the team, and San Antonio has bought out her contract.

Becky Hammon blogs about ACL rehab.

Sun....guard Renee Montgomery is pleased with the team's progress.

Injuries have sidetracked the Sun this season.

General WNBA:

Dee Kantner, who supervises WNBA officials, talks about what it's like to be a referee.

One-on-one with league president Laurel Richie.

Tomorrow's game previews:

Sparks at Liberty

Dream at Fever

College news:

USC adds another transfer: Alexis Lloyd from Virginia Tech.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Richie remains by far the worst interview and weakest leader of any professional sports league in the country. Every time she opens her mouth nothing but generic platitudes and empty blather flow. It's pretty unbelievable. An objective person would reasonably believe that after three years she could at least fake like she understands anything about the game. I guess not.

Abacus Reveals said...

Interesting scheduling this weekend -- a couple of what are essentially two-game series: Tulsa at Phoenix & San Antonio at Seattle.
Seattle returns the favor in San Antonio in a couple of weeks, and the Lynx do a two-fer in Seattle next month.
The NBA gave some consideration to such scheduling back in the '80's, but only briefly.

Is the WNBA conducting some kind of experiment/trial with this concept? Or did the teams request such scheduling, perhaps to minimize expenses?

Anonymous said...

Good catch. Hadn't noticed. Has to be an expense move.

Sue Favor said...

Abacus, I honestly don't know. Fans say they've been trying to figure out the WNBA's scheduling for years. I haven't heard about any answers, though.