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Kelly Krauskopf, chief operating officer for the Indiana Fever, is sorry Detroit lost its WNBA franchise.

After the opening game of the WNBA Finals, Tamika Catchings sent her Indiana teammate Katie Douglas a text message saying, "Great game, way to step it up for the team." Douglas answered by letting Catchings know she shouldn't beat herself up -- which is what Catchings had been doing.

On Oct. 17, the Connie and Ricky Sparks Memorial Scholarship Golf Event will be held at Highland Lake Golf Club, with all proceeds going to the Connie and Ricky Sparks scholarship fund.

After galloping away early to a 1 - 0 series lead and then falling behind in the series, 1 - 2, the Phoenix Mercury have won Game 5 of the 2009 WNBA Finals and secured their 2nd world championship title in 3 seasons.

PHOENIX Former Rutgers star Cappie Pondexter helped guide the Phoenix Mercury to the 2009 WNBA Championship on Friday night in Game Five of the WNBA Finals.

It should have been simple: Play like champions. Celebrate a championship. The Phoenix Mercury understood that.

Fever coach Lin Dunn heavily relies on her starters, but she has faith in all her reserves, including UConn grad Jessica Moore.

One win. Indiana Fever centre and Markham native Tammy Sutton-Brown is one win away from helping her team grab a WNBA championship.

The Phoenix Mercury are all about offence, with All-Stars Diana Taurasi and Cappie Pondexter leading a talented cast of scorers in search of the team's second WNBA title in three years.

Roughly 12 hours after it was announced that Indiana Pacers President of Basketball Operations Larry Bird had purchased the entire Conseco Fieldhouse balcony for Saturday night's Eastern Conference Finals Game 3 between the Indiana Fever and the Detroit Shock, all of the approximately 9,000 tickets have been distributed.

Tamika Catchings scored 22 points, and the Indiana Fever avoided elimination with a 79-75 win over the Detroit Shock in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals on Friday night.

Shavonte Zellous scored a playoff career- high 23 points off the bench, and the Detroit Shock moved one step closer to defending their WNBA title with a 72-56 win over the Indiana Fever in the opening game of the best-of-three East finals.

Tamika Catchings is as dynamic as she has ever been, and she is almost capable of carrying the Fever to the WNBA Finals by herself.

Sutton-Brown must battle Shock's 'bullies' Can a girly girl battle with the bad girls? The Indiana Fever say she can.

The Fever are 3-1 against Detroit this season, but the Shock won their most recent meeting, 70-63, at Detroit on Sept.

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 the top-seeded Indiana Fever opened the fourth quarter with a 17-3 run to pull away from the Washington Mystics for an 88-79 victory in the opener of their Eastern Conference first-round series Thursday night.

WNBA playoffs - Conference Semifinals WESTERN CONFERENCE Silver Stars vs. Phoenix Thursday: @Silver Stars, 8 p.m., TV: ESPN2 Saturday: @Phoenix, 9 p.m., TV: NBATV Monday: @Phoenix, 9 p.m. TV: ESPN2 Seattle vs.

Kerri Gardin had 23 points, eight rebounds and five assists to help the Connecticut Sun beat an injury-prone Indiana Fever team 95-85 Sunday.

Kristi Toliver scored 19 points, Candice Dupree and Mistie Bass had 15 each and the Chicago Sky beat the Indiana Fever 86-79 Thursday night to close in on the franchise's first playoff berth.