WNBA’s Comets Flame Out.

With not nearly enough fanfare, the best women’s basketball franchise the game has ever seen has been put to bed. The Houston Comets, a four-time champion and one of the WNBA’s original teams, essentially expired this week. You want to know how the crippled economy is affecting sports? The league shut down the team after [...]

Houston Comets’ demise not good sign for women’s sports.

Professional sports are about business, financial stability and, ultimately, profits. Owners are in the business to make money, and if the revenue streams are no longer there to support a moneymaking franchise, then they have every right to close up shop. The American Basketball League and Women’s United Soccer Association had their opportunities. They failed [...]

Game not over for WNBA, even as Houston Comets shut down.

But now the cheering, the fans, the excitement, the team itself is just a memory. After a fruitless four-month search to secure new ownership for the franchise, the WNBA announced on Tuesday that the Comets would disband. “It’s a real sad day,” says Chancellor, who left the Comets before the 2007 season to become the [...]

Comets will be missed, but the WNBA will go on.

Of course, one of the first things people might think about the Comets’ demise is this: Does this mean the impending end of the WNBA? No, it doesn’t. Houston is a franchise that lost its way at the worst possible time. Rockets owner Leslie Alexander sold the team to Hilton Koch in 2007, but that [...]

Houston Comets expect revival with changes.

Comets coach Karleen Thompson picked up several lessons during last year’s 13-21 finish, but one stood apart from the rest. “(One should) never feel any pressure to follow in someone’s footprints. Make your own,” Thompson said at the Comets’ media day Tuesday. That someone was Van Chancellor, who led the Comets to four consecutive WNBA [...]