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As Always, Decade Belonged to Connecticut, Tennessee

Over the next two weeks, FanHouse will be covering the top sports stories of the decade. In this installment, Michelle Smith looks back at how Connecticut and Tennesee dominated yet another decade of women's basketball. The talent has dispersed around the country.Players like Jayne Appel, Angel McCoughtry, Courtney Paris...

WNBA President Says Time Simply Ran Out on the Monarchs

WNBA president Donna Orender said dispersing the Sacramento Monarchs and aiming for a 2011 debut for a Bay Area team was a function of time. "We had to get our schedule together, our teams need to sell tickets," Orender said Wednesday, a day after it was announced that the Monarchs players will be dispersed via draft on...

WNBA Disbands Sacramento Monarchs

The WNBA announced Tuesday that it would hold a dispersal draft of the Sacramento Monarchs players on Monday, a back-door way of telling the world that no Bay Area ownership group could be found to take over the team in time for the 2010 season.It's a sad day for the league and for those players. The league loses one of...

Monarchs' Days Look to Be Numbered

The Sacramento Monarchs have been in limbo since Nov. 20 as the WNBA frantically looked for a new owner.The WNBA owners are meeting Thursday in New York and the Monarchs' fate will likely be the No. 1 topic of discussion.It does not appear the league has been able to broker a deal with a Bay Area ownership group to take...

Kara Lawson News From the Web

05/29/12 UConn Says Its Willing To Resume Tennessee Series Source: FOX - WTIC 61 - Hartford CT Five years after Pat Summitt suddenly put an end to the UConn-Tennessee women's basketball rivalry both sides may now be in the mood to consider reconciliation.
05/20/12 Former Lady Vol Shooting For Summitt Foundation Source: FOX - Fox Tri-Cities WEMT - Johnson City TN Former Tennessee star Kara Lawson and the WNBA's Connecticuct Sun will donate $100 to the Pat Summitt Foundation for every 3-pointer Lawson hits this season.
05/07/12 Sun Defeat Liberty In Preseason Opener Source: The Hartford Courant - Hartford CT Kara Lawson says one of the best things about the WNBA season is waking up in the morning aware that her identity has shifted again from ESPN analyst to player.

Background on Kara Lawson

Kara Marie Lawson (born February 14, 1981) is an American professional women's basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and a women's basketball television analyst for ESPN.

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