houston comets

Earlier this week the news that the WNBA team that fostered the likes of Sheryl Swoopes and Cynthia Cooper, The Houston Comets, was disbanding and now a lottery is planned for Monday to disperse Comets’ players throughtout other WNBA teams.

Women's basketball MVP and Olympian Sheryl Swoopes is returning to the game this year with the Tulsa Shock after sitting out for two seasons. Swoopes, who just turned 40, previously played for the Houston Comets, where she won four WNBA championships and was named league MVP in 2000, 2002, and 2005. In 2008 she signed with the Seattle Storm, where she played in 29 games before taking a break from the league to play overseas.

With College basketball over and done it’s time to look at the WNBA season. Of the 12 teams that comprise the WNBA, the LA Sparks (LA Lakers sister team) continues to be the most dynamic team of them all. They hold two national titles (2001 & 2002), 3 conference titles, made 10 playoff appearances in 13 seasons, and rank 1^st in all time win percentage (.626).

Every week I slave over a mouse, keypad and double whatever and tonic to bring you the “Jock’s Box”: A quick look at women athletes that have caught my eye for one reason or another. This week it’s Tina Thompson, forward for the L.A. Sparks.

Kandice Day muses about her post-Thanksgiving football routine and big boys who play with balls.

To some in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities (LGBTQ), three-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time MVP of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), Sheryl Swoopes, is a "lie-sexual," another sister-girl on the "down low" with the news that she's now engaged to a man. And to many of my heterosexual African American brothers, Chris Unclesho, the man Swoopes is engaged to marry, is the MAN! a bona fide "dyke whisperer" who has turned Swoopes out to the sexual joys of what it is to be with a man.