Not much hoops news today....

USA Today has a funny article on golfing phenom Michelle Wie. Lots of the web (like Andrew Sullivan) is being taken over by the Santorum debate.

But back to hoops. Yesterday Stefan Fatsis had an article in the Journal about finances of women's pro sports. It's not free on the web. The main story of the article is that WUSA players quickly accepted pay reductions, while WNBA player and the league ended up in their knock-down, drag-our contract fight.

Some excerpts: "[T]he nation's most prominent women's pro leagues have taken different approaches to their problems. The veterans of soccer's WUSA, which began its third season this month, were willing partners in slashing costs to help stem league losses. By contrast, the players of the Women's National Basketball Association, which will start its seventh season next month, engaged in a to- the-brink fight with their parent, the deep-pocketed men's NBA, that threatened to cancel the season and possibly the league itself...

"The WUSA has been more of a partnership than the WNBA from the start. Nineteen members of the 2000 women's national soccer team are "founding players" and collectively hold a 1% equity stake in the league. One of them, Julie Foudy, sits on the league's board..."

The article notes that WUSA attendance fell 12% last year, and that WNBA attendance has fallen 15% from its 1998 peak.