UNCASVILLE, Conn. – Saturday night at the Mohegan Sun Arena, the rock bands Styx and REO Speedwagon played a double bill. The two bands popular in the eighties might have brought back a slew of…
UNCASVILLE, Conn. – When the WNBA announced the season schedule, the Chicago Sky at the Connecticut Sun appeared to be a marquee matchup. The Sun had the best record in the Eastern Conference in 2012…
UNCASVILLE, Conn. – For the better part of three quarters, the Connecticut Sun and Indiana Fever struggled to put the ball in the basket in an unevenly paced, low scoring game. The Fever had an…
[display_podcast] This Saturday at Mohegan Sun Arena the WNBA will present the 2013 All-Star game. While most All-Star games for sports are a combination of disinterest and lack of enthusiasm, for the WNBA, the All-Star…
The Minnesota Lynx and Los Angeles Sparks, frontrunners in the Western Conference, dominate the reserves selected for the 2013 WNBA All-Star game. Lynx guard Lindsay Whalen and forward Rebekkah Brunson joined starters Seimone Augustus and…
SAN ANTONIO – With a dominant second half performance, the San Antonio Silver Stars (5-12) halted a four-game losing skid with a 60-52 victory over the Connecticut Sun (4-11) Saturday night in front of 8,…
[display_podcast] It has been a hot, crazy summer in the WNBA, and it is only July 11! Blow out games, blown out knees, standout performances, startling behavior, returns and departures, where does one begin to…
[display_podcast] Is there a bigger icon in USA women’s basketball history than Dawn Staley? She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, opening ceremonies flag bearer, and come this September, a member of the Naismith Hall…
UNCASVILLE, Conn. — It took ten games into the 2013 season, but Anne Donovan finally got a glimpse of the potential she signed on for when she agreed to coach the Connecticut Sun. The Connecticut Sun…
UNCASVILLE, Conn. – The Girl Scout crowd booed her during introductions. They cheered when a foul was called on her. They booed when she went to the foul line. However, in the end the crowd…
UNCASVILLE, Conn. – “It was just another road game,” said Washington Mystics coach Mike Thibault after his current team, the Washington Mystics, defeated his former team, the Connecticut Sun in his return to Mohegan Sun…
[display_podcast] We hope you enjoyed Part One of the Dishin & Swishin 2013 WNBA preview roundtable podcast, which was posted yesterday! This year the roundtable was so good, and so loaded with information from our…
[display_podcast] A benefit of living in Connecticut is that I get the privilege of covering both the University of Connecticut women’s basketball program and the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun. Not very many places have two programs…
Throughout the WNBA season, Hoopfeed will be giving you Dishin & Swishin Q & A Sessions to supplement our weekly podcasts. Who better to start with than the defending Most Valuable Player of the league,…
[display_podcast] It is one type of pressure when the franchise you coach has never made the playoffs in its entire existence. It is another type of pressure when you are succeeding a coach that took…
UNCASVILLE, Conn. – Former head coach Mike Thibault is in Washington and All-Star and USA national team player Asjha Jones is at home. Bill Laimbeer is trying to recapture Detroit Shock glory in New York,…
[display_podcast] With the 2013 draft on Monday women’s basketball effectively closed the book on the 2012-13 college season, and cracked the seal on a new volume, the 2013 WNBA season. For the third consecutive year,…
The college draft for any professional sports league is usually more of a celebration of the sport than an actual sporting event. Yesterday on the campus of ESPN, the WNBA celebrated its re-branding and re-packaging…
The Phoenix Mercury selected Baylor’s Brittney Griner with their No. 1 overall pick in the 2013 WNBA Draft presented. The Chicago Sky chose Elena Delle Donne of Delaware with the second overall selection, and the…
The Connecticut Sun named Anne Donovan as its new head coach on Thursday. Donovan currently serves as the head coach of Big East school Seton Hall. Previously, she was the head coach of the Seattle…
[display_podcast] It is widely believed that if the Washington Mystics did not have bad luck, they would have no luck at all. The most recent example of this theory is that the Mystics finished with…
As expected the Washington Mystics named former Connecticut Sun coach Mike Thibault its new general manager and head coach. The Mystics fired Trudi Lacey in late September after a dismal two-year tenure with an 11-57…
[display_podcast] A few years back, I started a Dishin & Swishin tradition. You see, every week for the remainder of the year I get to talk basketball with the greatest players, coaches, administrators and journalists…
From the Sun: The Connecticut Sun announced today it will not be retaining head coach Mike Thibault or his assistant coaches for the 2013 season. This is the first coaching change since the franchise relocated…
[display_podcast] The WNBA season has come to its conclusion, and it is time for Dishin & Swishin to celebrate a fantastic WNBA finals series. The Indiana Fever certainly had a difficult path to the Finals,…
