Marion Jones signs with WNBA team in Oklahoma

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How's their dental plan?

 

If Mark McGwire can drug up and then lie about it in his return to baseball, Marion Jones can do whatever the hell she wants.

 

The biggest surprise of the story for me was that the team in Detroit had moved to Tulsa, and had Nolan Richardson as its coach.

 

It was either that, or more prison.

 

After moving the franchise, they spent several months in intensive study to come up with an appropriate name. As the excitement and anticipation over the dynamic new appellation reached a thunderous fever pitch, it was announced six or eight weeks ago. In case you didn't notice (nobody did), here it is:

http://www.wnba.com/shock/news/shock_naming.html

 

What's worse, a female prison or a WNBA locker room?

 

Are there any financially viable WNBA franchises?

I know the Houston Comets folded a couple of years ago, Detroit has now moved to Tulsa, and Sacramento's franchise isn't in Sacramento anymore. This means that the teams responsible 8 of the 13 WNBA champions are either not in existence or have moved to a new city.

 

I think the Connecticut Sun are doing OK, but I think they're also drafting off UConn's heat to a large degree.

 

Of the 8 original franchises, who's left? L.A., New York and Phoenix. Charlotte, Cleveland and Houston don't exist in any form. Utah moved to San Antonio. I don't know if Sacramento is considered defunct or just inactive. Independent baseball leagues have less change than this.

 

Actually, the Shock was probably about as viable a franchise as any (i.e., they lost less money than most franchises; they had the fourth-highest attendance in the league in 2009). Mainly, after the death of Pistons owner Bill Davidson, his widow was looking to sell off pieces of the Palace empire one by one for whatever they could bring, and the Tulsa group was looking to buy.

I give the league about two more years.

 

Yes.