Detroit Shock News

Rick Mahorn will check to see how the Tulsa WNBA team is doing next season. After all, the players will mostly be his from the Detroit Shock, whose move to Oklahoma was officially announced Tuesday.

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

The three-time WNBA champion Detroit Shock are moving to Tulsa in hopes that a small-yet-enthusiastic market will embrace what will be the city's only major pro sports team.

The news came quickly and seemed to be irrelevant in a flash. Word from an unknown source surfaced Monday that the Detroit Shock were headed to Tulsa, Okla.

The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Flint honored the Detroit Shock basketball team Thursday, presenting them with the second annual Patrick McInnis Community Hero Award.

My daughter Celine is a good athlete, even at the tender age of 10. She does 50 push-ups every day, finished third in the finals of her school's 50-yard dash and is a demon on the soccer field.

You know, they're just not very grateful people in Oklahoma. Look at some of the fan postings at the Tulsa World as word spread that the Detroit Shock will move there: Iflyfast : "In other news ... Vegas just set the over/under for number of years the team will be here at 2." Ryanoceros: "There is a WNBA?" sr71v3: "Let's hope the only thing coming ...

It looks more tonight Detroit is about to lose one of its professional sports teams.

The Detroit Shock, one of the most successful WNBA Basketball teams will soon call Tulsa home.

This is a Sept. 16, 2009, file photo showing Detroit Shock's Alexis Hornbuckle shouting instructions to her teammates during the second half of their WNBA playoff basketball game against Atlanta Dream, in Auburn Hills.

Never before has a team had so much success, yet so few noticed. That was the never-ending story of the Detroit Shock.

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.

Will Bynum finished with 15 points, as the Detroit Pistons held off the Miami Heat, 87-83, in the preseason opener for both teams.

Rashanda McCants, Anna Montanana and Renee Montgomery each scored 12 points off the bench as the Lynx beat the Detroit Shock, 75-72, tonight in Minneapolis.

The old adage goes "to be the champs you have to beat the champs." Saturday night, the Fever finally beat the champs.

Atlanta Dream forward Angel McCoughtry was named the WNBA's Rookie of the Year on Thursday.

When it was over and all the Eastern Conference hardware had been distributed, Tamika Catchings, bruised and battered and loving every bit of her pain, ran around the home court and high-fived the multitudes.

Will the WNBA's Eastern Conference finals be a battle for the ages? A battle for the aged, maybe.

Rick Mahorn grabbed a padded chair in the visitors' locker room at Madison Square Garden and lifted it with such force that he cracked a plastic light cover and lacerated a ceiling panel.

Detroit Shock guard Deanna Nolan made the All-WNBA second team, the league announced today.