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During a five-on-five drill Thursday at U.S. women's national team practice, Lindsey Harding saw a trap coming at her in the corner.

Marynell Meadors was honored Thursday as the WNBA coach of the year after leading the Atlanta Dream to a remarkable turnaround in the franchise's second season.

The day after the Washington Mystics were swept out of the WNBA playoffs by the Indiana Fever, General Manager Angela Taylor turned her thoughts to the future. Although the Mystics accomplished a primary goal for the first year of the franchise's latest rebuilding effort by reaching the postseason for the first time in three seasons, plenty of work remains.

Taylor's next task is to find ways for Washington to build on its 16-18 record and take the next step toward playing for a league championship in the next three to five years.

Indiana Fever's Tamika Catchings, left, reacts after blocking the shot of Washington Mystics' Crystal Langhorne in overtime of a WNBA playoff basketball game in Indianapolis, Saturday, Sept.

Schultz scored a 2-under-par 70. Rick Schuller , the PGA director of instruction at Swader's Sports Park in Chester, Va., finished second with a 73.

Fever Ebony Hoffman: 9.9 PPG, 5.9 rebounds Mystics Chasity Melvin: 5.9 PPG, 4.6 rebounds Comment: Coach Lin Dunn has said for the Fever to excel, Hoffman must perform well.

The WNBA announced Friday that Mercury rookie post player DeWanna Bonner as the WNBA Sixth Woman of the Year.

By Mel Greenberg COLLEGE PARK, Md. It was the same old song for the Washington Mystics at the University Maryland's Comcast Center Thursday night but with a different meaning because one more playoff loss and they'll be gone.

Tamika Catchings had 26 points and 12 rebounds, and top-seeded Indiana opened the fourth quarter with a 17-3 run to pull away from Washington for an 88-79 victory in the opener of their Eastern Conference first-round series Thursday night.

Washington Mystics center/forward Crystal Langhorne has been named the most improved player in the WNBA, the league announced on Thursday.

A look at the four first-round, best-of-3 series in the WNBA playoffs, which start Wednesday: EASTERN CONFERENCE No.

If the Washington Mystics make the WNBA playoffs, any first-round home games would be played at Comcast Center at the University of Maryland, chief operating officer Greg Bibb said.

Tamika Catchings scored 20 points and reserve rookie Briann January added 16 and fueled a fourth-quarter surge as the Indiana Fever beat the Washington Mystics 72-61 Sunday.

WASHINGTON While Congress continues to debate health care nearby on Capitol Hill, there was nothing debatable about the way the Washington Mystics took care of its own health issues Thursday night in enhancing their WNBA playoff hopes with a 78-67 win over the Seattle Storm at the Verizon Center.

If it had been a playoff game -- or simply a game with a closer score -- when Alana Beard rolled her ankle against the Seattle Storm on Tuesday, it would have been impossible to keep the Washington Mystics' all-star on the bench. But with her team trailing, 50-31, with just more than seven minutes remaining in the third quarter, the decision to rest Beard was easy.

Beard played 17 minutes against Seattle, her fewest in any game this season. She wasn't the only player who received a break this week.

Fresh from setting two world records, Usain Bolt is ready to go faster. The Jamaican sprinter, who took part in a ceremonial kickoff celebrating the start of the Spanish soccer league at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, said he can improve on his record times of 9.58 seconds in the 100 meters and 19.19 in the 200.

In the strictest sense the Washington Mystics got exactly what they -- a team clinging to postseason hopes -- needed Sunday afternoon with a win over the Minnesota Lynx at Verizon Center to put themselves back in the Eastern Conference playoff picture. The lasting image of Washington's 81-75 victory won't be one of the final score though, but rather one of all-star guard Alana Beard being carried off the court with a sprained left ankle in the fourth quarter.

Beard had pulled up for a jump shot when she collided with Minnesota's Candice Wiggins, who was called for a foul on the play with 3 minutes 8 seconds remaining in regulation. As players regrouped, Beard remained on the floor clutching her left ankle, unable to stand.

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The Washington Mystics are sure they are a playoff caliber team. They've said it all year, they believe it and sometimes they even play like it.

Nicole Powell had 26 points and 11 rebounds to help the Sacramento Monarchs rout the Washington Mystics 82-60 on Saturday night.Rebekkah Brunson had 16 points and seven rebounds and Scholanda Robinson added 13 points for the Monarchs , who have won four of their last five games.Sacramento, still with league's worst record, trails fourth-place ...