Tina Thompson was a player without a team. Now, the WNBA veteran is coming home to join the Los Angeles Sparks, and wearing No. 32 in honor of Magic Johnson. Her signing was announced Thursday, 3 1/2 months after Thompson's former team ...

Sancho Lytle was the first player chosen in the WNBA's dispersal draft of Houston Comets players Monday, going to the last-place Atlanta Dream. The Washington Mystics chose Matee Ajavon with the second pick and the Chicago Sky took Mistie Willilams with the third selection during a conference call ...

The Houston Comets, four-time winners of the Women's National Basketball Association crown, will suspend operations after the league was unable find a buyer for the team. "We are, unfortunately, at a place we hoped that we wouldn't have to be at - the Comets will cease operations in this coming week," WNBA president Donna Orender told television station KRIV ...

The Houston Comets, a franchise that won the first four WNBA championships, is disbanding. The league-owned team will be shut down because new owners couldn't be found. "You have to build on strength," WNBA president Donna Orender told The Associated Press in a telephone interview ...