WNBA Women's Basketball News

It's been a fun three weeks here for Sue Bird, on leave from the Seattle Storm in an attempt to help the USA win its fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal in women's basketball.

The Detroit Shock have signed free-agent guard and former Houston Comets player Ashley Shields to a 7-day contract.

Australian Olympic basketball star Lauren Jackson will undergo arthroscopic knee surgery next week in Sydney.

The Coast Guard and Portland Fire are reportedly responding this afternoon to an oil spill in the North Portland Harbor, upstream from the Island Cafe, at 250 N.E. Tomahawk Island Drive.

Olympic events Sunday and Monday involving athletes and coaches with connections to Michigan.

It lacked the pregame hype, the capacity crowd, and likely didn't have a television audience of an estimated one billion fans, but when the U.S. women met China for a basketball game on Monday, the final result ...

The U.S. Women's Senior National Team has yet to be tested at the 2008 Olympics, and it's likely that things will continue that way until at least the semifinals on Aug.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. Headlined by three-time Olympic gold medalist Lisa Leslie and two-time Olympic gold medalist Katie Smith , USA Basketball today announced the first nine members of the eventual 12-member ...

Mali, Africa's representative in the women basketball of the ongoing Olympic Games in Beijing, started their campaign on a losing note.

Former University of Connecticut and Piscataway star Asjha Jones signed a three-year contract extension with the WNBA's Connecticut Sun.

Lisa Leslie set a U.S. Olympic record going 7-for-7 from the field as the women's team continued its unblemished run through the Beijing Games with a 97-41 victory against Mali.

The Stanzione family in Liverpool has a pretty famous family member. Her name: Becky Hammon.

The Detroit Shock have acquired Taj McWilliams-Franklin from the Washington Mystics in exchange for forward Tasha Humphrey, guard Eshaya Murphy and a second-round pick in the 2009 draft.

BEIJING, Aug. 11 -- Tina Thompson had taken a behind-the-back drop pass from teammate Tamika Catchings and had leapt toward the basket. Chinese guard Bian Lan then ran into Thompson and sent her crashing into the padded protective barrier in front of several photographers.

But on this day not even a collision like that could stop Thompson. She released the ball on contact, and it hit the backboard, then bounced twice on the rim before falling through, as Thompson slapped the barrier in celebration. In the United States' 108-63 demolition of China at Wukesong Indoor Stadium on Monday, Thompson made shots from everywhere on the court to finish with a game-high 27 points.

Lauren Jackson, left, and Sue Bird are Storm teammates and have played together in Russia, but they will play for different countries at the Olympics.

Before she was a Monarch or an Aggie, she was a John Tyler Lion. WNBA rookie, Tyler's own, A'Quonesia Franklin is back in her hometown for a short break.

Gold medals in three straight Summer Games and a 25-game Olympic winning streak matter less than one recent failure for the U.S. women's basketball team.

What do Becky Hammon, Dick Cheney and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have in common? Not a lot, except for the bottom line.

The Phoenix Mercury signed forward Olympia Scott to a contract for the rest of the WNBA season Thursday.

Becky Hammon imagined this moment for a long, long time: Playing in the Olympics, hitting the winning shot, climbing the medals podium.