...that needed to be shored up was team chemistry, and they finally found the right mix last season on their way to the WNBA championship.Taj McWilliams-Franklin led this bonding process like only a mother could. The 41-year-old, 6-foot-2...

The Seattle Storm had such a dominant run to the WNBA championship last year, they are the overwhelming favorites to win again as the league opens its 15th season this weekend.The Storm rolled...

ATLANTA - The Minnesota Lynx completed a near-perfect postseason by beating the Atlanta Dream 73-67 to complete a three-game sweep of the WNBA championship series.

...crowns in 1989 and 1990. The Tampa Bay Lightning raised the Stanley Cup a week ago, and the Detroit Shock won the WNBA championship in September. Now the Pistons are a win from being league champs again. "It's one of those rare circumstances...

...Swoopes' MVP season was worth $6,000 for the March of Dimes and UNICEF. Swoopes, who led the Houston Comets to the WNBA championship and is now a member of the U.S. Olympic team, was honored as Buick Regal player of the game six times this...

NEW YORK (AP) - So far in the inaugural WNBA season, the East has been pounding the West. With two weeks left in the 28-game season, the West doesn't have a team over the .500-mark while New York (15-5) leads three teams above .500 in the four-team Eastern Conference. Phoenix (10-10) is the only team to break even in the Western Conference.

The Sacramento Monarchs have folded, a shocking and disappointing development for the WNBA and one of its original eight franchises.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Swin Cash cradled the WNBA championship trophy with tears in her eyes. "This is just unreal," she said on the floor of the Detroit Shock's locker room. "I know...

Bill Davis and the rest of his Winston Cup team are feeling a lot better about their chances for a competitive start to the new season after two days of testing their new Dodge cars and engines in Las Vegas. Davis, along with drivers Ward Burton and Dave Blaney and engine builder Terry Elledge, flew from Nevada overnight to take part in the first day of the annual motorsports media tour hosted by Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C.

...Comets started the playoffs as underdogs, but they beat the New York Liberty 59-55 Thursday night in Game 1 of the WNBA championship series. On Saturday afternoon they will be in a familiar spot -- one win from their fourth straight title, a...