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WNBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: Beasts Back in the East

In a different time, the Eastern Conference of the WNBA was as lightly regarded as the East of the NBA, mainly a speed bump for the West on the way to the league title. But that was your mother's East. Today, the rugged portion of the WNBA is all east of the Mississippi. To wit, while Seattle finished the season with the...

Washington Breaks Three-Way Tie in WNBA East

The WNBA playoff picture is set, and it went right down to the final day of the regular season. Three teams in the Eastern Conference went into the day tied for first place. And the Washington Mystics were the team that emerged on top, needing a 90-81 win over the playoff-bound Atlanta Dream in order to secure the No. 1...

Tamika Catchings Hopes to Stow Last Year's Pain Away Behind WNBA Title

WASHINGTON -- The intellectual part of Tamika Catchings knows that what happens in this September's WNBA playoffs has little to do with what took place last year. And yet, the emotional part of Catchings knows that last year's pain of getting oh so close to her first professional title with the Indiana Fever won't go away...

WNBA Midseason Report Card: East Finally Rises

Is this the year that the Eastern Conference's inferiority complex comes to an end in the WNBA? In 13 years, the Eastern Conference has won three WNBA titles, all by the Detroit Shock, the last coming in 2008. But, with the exception of the extraordinary season of the Seattle Storm, the best basketball in the league this...

Taurasi Ponders Year Away From WNBA

WASHINGTON -- Diana Taurasi says she's considering taking a break from the WNBA. She probably wishes that sabbatical had started before Sunday. Taurasi, the leading scorer in the WNBA and the league's reigning Most Valuable Player, took a hard fall on her tail bone two-thirds of the way through the third quarter of her...

Alana Beard News From the Web

05/19/12 Overview of the 2012 WNBA season Source: NBC - KPNX TV 12 - Phoenix AZ Here is a look at the key story lines for the upcoming 2012 WNBA season.
05/19/12 Full overview of upcoming 2012 WNBA season Source: NBC - KPNX TV 12 - Phoenix AZ Here is a look at the key story lines for the upcoming 2012 WNBA season.
05/04/12 International Alumni Update: May 4 Source: FOX Sports nformation is now available for Jess Foley's game on Saturday as the Norwood Flames beat the South Adelaide Panthers 83-53.

Background on Alana Beard

Alana Monique Beard (born May 14, 1982 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American professional women's basketball player with the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA.

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