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I think you touched on the crux of the matter, Pounder. The WNBA should not expand until all their existing franchises are in order. Chicago WAS a disaster, and there are several WNBA teams owned by NBA teams (besides Houston) that are quietly up for sale. If anything, it might be a better long-term...

I'm just wondering WHY that is? What is the fascination with the ABA that compels this? Is it the same reason people watch Jerry Springer or The View? Nothing wrong with people posting about the ABA, but it just seems that the CBA, USBL, IBL, WNBA and even the NBDL should be getting more interest am...

With the possible exception of the NIFL, the ABA may be the worst minor league in any sport today. Teams come, teams go, teams leave behind unpaid bills, and Joe Newman laughs all the way to the bank every time some sucker pays a franchise fee. What gets me is that the other minor league basketball ...

I tend to go along with Pounder, although the Florida State League is a lot different than most minor leagues, it seems. Key West, as mentioned, has had an FSL team that failed miserably at the gate and is basically 30 years dead. It is in a remote location, and there appears to be no serviceable fa...

FORTY-SEVEN teams? This is nuts! What's next, a Skip Thoren Division? Sorry, but I can't even begin to take this league seriously. P.T. Barnum was right.

You can get by with a four-team league, but six is better and eight is almost perfect. If you look at the history of baseball, you'll see that eight-team leagues were the norm for decades. The majors and the high minors were almost uniformly eight-teamers. To concentrate on the number of teams a lea...

One factor is that Reno is historically a terrible sports city. There has never been a pro sports team there that has made it there, be it baseball, basketball, football or hockey. The ballpark issue is legit, too. There was talk a few years ago of a group buying Tacoma's PCL franchise and putting i...

When I got an email notifying me that my post last night had been responded to, I almost expected the worst. Instead, you wrote one of the most reasoned things I've ever seen on the OSC message boards. I haven't followed the indy leagues in North America this year because I've been covering Mexican ...

All I know about what's happening in Edmonton comes from the two above posts, but that's enough to be able to reasonably predict that problems there aren't going to go away. First, the fact that this guy is letting his girlfriend run the team all but proves that he looks at it as some kind of toy wh...

I was living in Renton while the Goodwill Games were going on (I'm in Centralia now), but wasn't able to make it out to a game. Wish I had. Cheney Stadium is a great place to go...in fact, I'm heading out to the Rainiers game tonight. I've always thought it would be fun to catch a game on Cheapskate...