WNBA

[Mortimer]

When I was a senior in High School, I was the captain of the girls bball team, but I got a bad injury right before the season started and had to sit it out.
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Would you mind explaining what a good injury is?

[Mortimer]

I shouldn't have asked.....






...she probably will.

[pmayjr]

There is one way you can keep the WNBA in business... maybe... without regarding nudity (and even then, who wants to see most of those "bruts" topless?)...

This should be the location of a few of the teams-
Conneticut
Nashville
Charlotte

And then the big markets.

With the 3 cities listed above-
All UConn alums will play for the Conneticut Team
All Tennessee alums will play for Nashville
All Duke and Carolina alums will play for the Charlotte team

Then give New York all the Rutgers and other northeast chicks
Let Houston have all of the Texas and LSU chicks
and then give every other big market the rest of the baggage.

That way there would at least be "local" interest in the teams. To be cont.

[pmayjr]

A few years ago, the Gopher women's team made it to the women's final 4 with their star Lindsey Whalen. They ran into UConn and Diana Taurasi, and got beat. But there was a lot of fanfare for the Gophers team and especially Whalen. So when she graduated, I thought the Minesota Lynx WNBA franchise should trade away their whoel team to get Whalen. Why? She'd at least in the short-term put some butts in the seats. She would've sold tickets.

There has never been any local interest in that franchise, and I'm surprised it hasn't folded or moved already. Whalen was there one chance to get some interest going, and the Lynx blew it. Whalen has been a decent WNBA player, nothin special, but it's not about talent. For a struggling league like the WNBA, it's about selling tickets!

But that's why I'm saying give the Conneticut team all the Uconn Alums. At least that would keep people in Conneticut interested in watching the team.

[pmayjr]

A potential roster under my plan for the Tennesse team-
Could you imagine Candace Parker and Chamique Holdsclaw on the same team (I'm leaving myself open to get ripped)? But that would at least generate some nice buzz in the Tennesse area.

Diana Taurasi, Nikisha Sales, Rebecca Lobo, Shay Ralph, and Kara Walters (yuck) being your starters for the Conneticut Sun? At least in Conneticut that could sell some tickets.

I'm not saying this idea would sell out arena,s, but I have no doubt that it would sell more tickets, and drive up more interest.