Women's National Basketball Association

Up next for the Sparks: Friday at Phoenix

2013-06-13 17:22:00

AT PHOENIX When: 7. Where: US Airways Center. On the air: Time Warner Cable SportsNet. Records: Sparks 2-1, Mercury 1-3. Record vs. Mercury in 2012: 5-0. Update: The Mercury's No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA draft, Brittney Griner, has a left...

Bill Haas leads Memorial; Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy make the cut

2013-05-31 22:43:00

Bill Haas played the best golf in the toughest conditions Friday in the rain-delayed Memorial at Dublin, Ohio. When the second round was suspended as dark clouds rolled in and forced the third stoppage in play, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy were close to...

Up next for Sparks: vs. Tulsa on Saturday

2013-06-08 00:00:00

VS. TULSA When: 7:30. Where: Staples Center. On the air: WNBA.com. Records: Sparks 1-1, Shock 0-4. Record vs. Shock (2012): 2-2. Update: The Sparks are coming off a 83-78 loss to San Antonio last Saturday. In that contest, Candace Parker had a game-...

Grizzlies' Tony Allen fined $5,000 by NBA for flop vs. Spurs

2013-05-24 17:09:00

Tony Allen’s dramatics helped the Memphis Grizzlies push the San Antonio Spurs to overtime in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals, but it also cost him $5,000. The NBA announced Friday that Allen had been fined for violating the league’s...

Candace Parker primed for MVP year as Sparks open Sunday

2013-05-25 12:30:00

Sparks forward Candace Parker feels as though her resume is incomplete. She's won two Olympic gold medals on Team USA, a Euroleague championship with a Russian team, two NCAA titles with Tennessee and nearly every individual accolade that a player can...

Robbie Rogers, openly gay soccer player, joins the Galaxy

2013-05-25 14:23:00

For Robbie Rogers, the comeback trail is laid out in front of him. The Galaxy unveiled its newest acquisition Saturday afternoon, and Rogers will become the first openly gay athlete to play in an American professional sports league for men when he takes...

WNBA to disappear by next year? A financial website says yes

2013-05-24 09:36:00

The WNBA is riding high these days, eagerly awaiting the debut of college megastar Brittney Griner in her first pro game Monday. Then it will fold in a handful of months. At least that's the thought process of financial website 24/7 Wall St, which...

Brittney Griner says Baylor asked her not to reveal she is gay

2013-05-20 07:13:00

Former Baylor star Brittney Griner said Sunday that her coach at Baylor, Kim Mulkey, asked her to not be publicly open about being gay out of fear it would hurt recruiting. "It was a recruiting thing," Griner told espnW.com. "The coaches thought that...

Skylar Diggins gets a Mercedes as a graduation gift from Jay-Z

2013-05-20 10:54:00

Skylar Diggins got a new car as a gift after graduating from Notre Dame this weekend. Big deal, you say? Probably lots of recent college grads got the same thing? True, but she got a Mercedes. Well, maybe some kids with rich parents had one of those...

Kobe Bryant's private family matters again reach a public stage

2013-05-12 20:52:00

The 131-character dispatch arrived mournfully within two hours of sunrise May 4, at 7:58 a.m. to be exact. "When u give Give GIVE and they take Take TAKE at wat point do u draw a line in the sand?" Kobe Bryant wrote on his Twitter feed, adding the...

Girls' basketball: Michelle Greco is new coach at St. Bernard

2013-04-30 13:54:19

Brittney Griner acknowledges she's gay, says 'just be who you are'

2013-04-18 09:42:00

Ex-Baylor star Brittney Griner likes to remind all the girls and young women who idolize her to just be themselves and not worry what others think. Griner was doing just that this week while discussing her sexual orientation, apparently for the first...

Tulsa Shock rookie and former Notre Dame standout Skylar Diggins drives to the basket during Sunday�s WNBA game against the Chicago Sky.

2013-06-03 02:27:00

Tulsa Shock rookie Skylar Diggins holds a question and answer session with fans following Sunday's WNBA game against the Chicago Sky. At least 12 busloads of fans from South Bend attended the game in Rosemont, Ill.

2013-06-03 02:25:00

South Bend Tribune/ROBERT FRANKLIN.Tulsa's Skylar Diggins drives by Chicago's Swin Cash during the WNBA game between the Tulsa Shock and Chicago Sky on Sunday, June 2, 2013, inside the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill. .

2013-06-02 00:00:00