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Essence Carson logged the best season of her young WNBA career in 2009, with a career-high 10 points and two rebounds per game.

Deanna Nolan scored 34 points to lead Detroit to a 94-87 victory over the New York Liberty on Thursday night, helping the defending champion Shock clinch a playoff spot.

Candace Parker scored 24 points, grabbed 14 rebounds and blocked three shots to lead the Los Angeles Sparks past the Phoenix Mercury 81-78 Sunday in the regular-season finale for both playoff-bound teams.

The Detroit Shock say they've signed contract extensions with Deanna Nolan, Katie Smith and Plenette Pierson.

The University of Memphis men's and women's soccer teams both came up with big road victories Sunday.

Essence Carson scored 17 points, Tiffany Jackson added 12 and the New York Liberty closed their disappointing season with an 86-65 victory over the playoff-bound Washington Mystics on Sunday.

By Mel Greenberg SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - On a night when formal events got under way here involving Rutgers' coach C. Vivian Stringer's induction to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, two of her former Scarlet Knights were making news in the WNBA.

Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer still can't find the words to express her feelings about being enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Friday night.

The Indiana Fever are back at full strength as they prepare for the postseason. They're still in contention for the best record in the WNBA as they open a three-game road trip to close the regular season against the New York Liberty, who have been eliminated from playoff contention.

Jekabsone-Zogota, Holt lead Sun past Liberty Eds: APNewsNow. Sun 88, Liberty 85, OT.

Levittown - Shameka Christon scored 24 points, Cathrine Kraayeveld had a season-high 18 and the New York Liberty beat the struggling Minnesota Lynx 80-67 Sunday.Tiffany Jackson added 10 points for New York , which won for the fifth time in eight games to move two games behind Chicago and Washington for the fourth and final playoff spot in the ...

It took three years for the Los Angeles Sparks to finally win again in San Antonio and it took overtime to do it.

NEW YORK Sylvia Fowles had 22 points and Candice Dupree added 20 to lead the Chicago Sky to an 88-77 win over the New York Liberty on Friday night.

Shameka Christon scored 11 points, Loree Moore added 10 and the New York Liberty rallied in the second half for a 65-61 victory over the turnover-prone Los Angeles Sparks on Tuesday night.

Janel McCarville scored 18 points and the New York Liberty beat the Sacramento Monarchs 84-66 on Friday night to snap a five-game losing streak and give interim coach Anne Donovan her first win.

Janel McCarville scored 18 points and the New York Liberty beat the Sacramento Monarchs 84-66 on Friday night to snap a five-game losing streak and give interim coach Anne Donovan her first win.

Storm star Lauren Jackson holds her ground as New York's Shameka Christon tries to get by Saturday night at KeyArena.

From the moment Essence Carson and Kia Vaughn arrived at Rutgers as incoming freshmen, Scarlet Knights' head coach C. Vivian Stringer sensed that she would be coaching future WNBA prospects.

Janel McCarville scored 18 points and the New York Liberty beat the Sacramento Monarchs 84-66 on Friday night to snap a five-game losing streak and give interim coach Anne Donovan her first win.

Chamique Holdsclaw scored 12 of her 18 points in the second half as the Atlanta Dream spoiled Anne Donovan Angel McCoughtry and Iziane Castro Marques had 16 points each to help the Dream win their franchise-record third straight.