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Lynx win WNBA Draft Lottery for second time in franchise history

Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) Minnesota Lynx MINNEAPOLIS/ST. The Minnesota Lynx today won the ninth annual WNBA Draft Lottery, held in New York. Minnesota used its first-round pick acquired from the New York...

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Curse of the MVP?

INDIANAPOLIS, IN, October 6, 2009 -- For four of the first five years of the WNBA the Most Valuable Player of the league won a championship that same season. In 1997 and 1998 it was Cynthia Cooper winning the award and leading...

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Five Former Lady Bears to Play Overseas

Mosby, Player, Tisdale, Wabara and Young play pro hoops overseas. WACO, Texas - Five former Baylor Lady Bear basketball players will spend the winter playing professional basketball overseas. After helping the San Antonio...

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Best of the Opening Round

Best Individual Performance – Tamika Catchings, Indiana Fever So here's the stat line put together by Catchings in the Fever's OT win in Game 2 of the series against the Washington Mystics: 24 points, 16 rebounds, five assists,...

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Diana Taurasi, Cappie Pondexter of Phoenix Mercury top all-WNBA first team

Mercury teammates lead all-WNBA picks NEW YORK -- Diana Taurasi was the top vote-getter and was joined by teammate Cappie Pondexter on the all-WNBA first team announced Wednesday. Taurasi earned 201 points, which topped Seattle...

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Shock's Nolan on all-WNBA second team

POSTED BY JAMES JAHNKE FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER Detroit Shock guard Deanna Nolan made the All-WNBA second team, the league announced today. Voting was conducted by a panel of national sports writers and broadcasters. Players...

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WNBA: Fever complete Eastern sweep of Mystics

At Phoenix, Diana Taurasi scored 24 points on 10-of-15 shooting and had six rebounds, five assists and two blocked shots to lead Mercury past San Antonio and level their Western Conference semifinal series at a game apiece. The...

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Fever finish sweep of Mystics

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The Indiana Fever scored the final five points to defeat the Washington Mystics 81-74 Saturday night and sweep their Eastern Conference semifinal series. Tamika Catchings scored 24 points and had 16...

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Ex-football coach acquitted in death

A former Kentucky high school football coach was acquitted yesterday in the death of a player who collapsed at a practice where the team was put through a series of sprints on a hot summer day. It was a rare criminal...

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Ex-Sonic Mason signs with Sacramento

Former Seattle SuperSonic Desmond Mason signed a one-year contract with Sacramento. He played 39 games last season for Oklahoma City but missed the second half of the season with a hyperextended right knee. … Minnesota signed...

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