With the end of Sunday’s games, the WNBA will take its month-long break for the Olympic Games in Beijing. All teams will be off as a bulk of players prepare for international competition. Some players have already left, but most will join their teams this week to begin practicing for the basketball competition starting the second week of August. [Read more]

Of course, the brawl’s been in the news over the last few days. Hell, I had a discussion about the brawl with a recruiter I met with while here at the UNITY convention in Chicago. Anyway, Barry Horn of the Dallas Morning News asked the question, and here’s his answer. But here’s what the skirmish proved: There is passion in the women’s game. For many, the WNBA is a below-the-basket game played by the old girls club. The brawl has revealed the players to be competitive athletes who would not be more at home on the Ladies PGA Tour. No one is advocating turning the WNBA into the WWE, but an outpouring of pure emotion is never bad for a sport.  The fact that a bunch of people are talking about the league now can’t... [Read more]

Many who watched it thought so and it seems their initial reactions were correct. Detroit Shock forward Cheryl Ford is out for the season after suffering an ACL injury. [Read more]

Something about the Palace at Auburn Hills. At least the league’s not sweeping it under the carpet with its coverage. Safe to say Candace Parker and Delisha Milton-Jones are getting suspended for a game, though. [Read more]

It seems like it was only nine months ago we talked about Tree Rollins becoming the official coach of the Washington Mystics. Well, that’s because it was — and since we’re talking about it, it’s because he was fired Saturday. From the Washington Post: General Manager Linda Hargrove said the completely demoralizing nature of the back-to-back losses to New York (77-56) and Detroit (99-62) was the tipping point. The embarrassing losses put the playoffs farther out of reach for the Mystics (8-14), who’ve qualified for postseason play four times in their 11-year history. “It probably wouldn’t have happened had we lost those two games, just lost them,” Hargrove said. “But the way we lost them... [Read more]