ESPN The Magazine picked the Lynx to be the worst team in the WNBA this year. The Lynx beat Sacramento, almost beat LA, and today they beat Houston. Swoopes had another off night -- wonder if maybe the Swoopes-Cooper chemistry thing is going bad again. Tina Thompson was serving her suspension for the Katie Douglas fracas the other night.

In today's other games:

New York recovered from yesterday's disaster and beat Washington. Tamika Whitmore had 21 and 13. Holdsclaw was cold, and Stacey Dales-Schuman didn't do much (just like yesterday). There were over 15,000 in the Garden for the home-opener.

Connecticut got its second win, beating the Stars. Sales had 22. Other than Dydek, San Antonio's starters played poorly -- Marie Ferdinand was 0 for 8.