Sacramento Monarchs News

The Sparks have signed WNBA veteran Ticha Penicheiro, who helped lead the Sacramento Monarchs to the championship in 2005.

Asjha Jones has watched her Sun teammates come and go over her six seasons with Connecticut.

Oregon State is lowering football ticket prices for certain seats at Reser Stadium in Corvallis in an effort to bring in more fans.

Former University of Tennessee star Kara Lawson has signed a three-year contract with the WNBA's Connecticut Sun.

The San Antonio Silver Stars announced on Monday they have exercised the contract of forward/center Laura Harper through the 2011 season.

The Connecticut Sun, who recently drafted veteran forward DeMya Walker in the dispersal draft of Sacramento Monarchs players and who own the No.2 overall pick in the in the 2010 WNBA Draft, will open the 2010 season vs.

Harper, a 6-foot-5 forward-center, was selected 10th overall by Sacramento in the 2008 college draft and played two seasons for the Monarchs, averaging 5.0 points, 3.7 rebounds and 15.2 minutes.

Santa Clara had five players score in double figures and the Broncos pulled out a 68-65 win at Houston Baptist on Monday night.

Tulsa's WNBA team will pick seventh in a special dispersal draft that came about after the Sacramento Monarchs ceased operations.

The Minnesota Lynx have added another former All-Star to their roster. The Lynx selected forward Rebekkah Brunson on Monday in the Sacramento Monarchs dispersal draft.

The Connecticut Sun have picked up veteran forward DeMya Walker in a draft of players from the defunct Sacramento Monarchs.

Tulsa's new WNBA team has acquired guard Scholanda Robinson in a draft of players from the defunct Sacramento Monarchs.

Gratuitous camera shots of sports owners, a pox on every TV screen, hit its nadir with the Maloof brothers.

The Bay Area's immediate prospects of landing a WNBA franchise vanished Tuesday, when the league announced that it would disperse players from the recently defunct Sacramento Monarchs to its remaining 12 teams Monday and give up on hopes of moving the club west on I-80. But WNBA President Donna Orender also made it clear that the league still plans ...

The Silver Stars will pick fifth Monday in a dispersal draft of Sacramento Monarchs players.

The WNBA's owners are meeting in New York today and the top item on their agenda may be something none of them want to consider - the end of another franchise.

JOS LUIS VILLEGAS Bee file, 2008 Ticha Penicheiro said she planned to spend her entire WNBA career with the Monarchs.

The plug was pulled quickly on the Sacramento Monarchs. Selling season tickets one day, gone the next, there was no ceremonious ending for one of the founding franchises of the WNBA.

Ticha Penicheiro sat down with News10 Sports' Bryan May in an exclusive interview to talk about the Maloofs' decision to shutdown the Sacramento Monarchs.

The Sacramento Monarchs folded, a shocking and disappointing development for the WNBA and one of its original eight franchises.