In addition to a heaping of baseball, tonight’s slate features game four of the WNBA Finals. The Phoenix Mercury trail the Indiana Fever two games to one. (Can the Mercury “take measure” of the Fever? Ha! Sorry.) Because of this fortuitous timing, today also gave us two prominent NBA bloggers’ confessions of interest in the WNBA. First see Kelly Dwyer, who doesn’t get why people hate the WNBA so much. Then make your way to Bethlehem Shoals, who comes out swinging for the league.
Sports Bloggers’ New Buzz Band: The WNBA
↵The cause is noble, but I’m doubting sentences like this …
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↵It might be even a more sophisticated form of basketball than either the NBA status quo or men’s college ball, which it pretty much makes a mockery of when it comes to both style and content.
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… are going to endear anyone, least of college hoops fans, to the WNBA. Our eyes tell us something different, is all. But just a thought.
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Anyway, the point is: Watch the WNBA tonight, if you want to! Or don’t! Whatever. David Stern is going to keep pumping money into that thing regardless, so don’t feel too bad.
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