Has attendance finally stabilized? Could be. Kim Callahan has more figures, week by week and year by year. Regular-season 2004 looked a lot like 2003, except for weeks two and three (down), nine and eleven (up), and thirteen (down due to New York's Radio City Music Hall games). Regular-season 2005 so far looks a lot like 2004, with weeks one and four down, but weeks two and three up. Overall attendance is down 3%-- nothinig to crow about, but no reason to cry, especially if Donna Orender really can raise more sponsorship money, as her old golf job suggests.

Detroit has declined by 20%, which makes sense; they're not defending champions anymore. The Mystics, though no worse now than in mid-June '04, are down 18%: some blame the Holdsclaw trade, but the real culprit, as Jon Siegel predicted, is likely the Washington Nationals. (You can't spit in DC this summer without getting a Nats logo wet; moreover, they're winning.)

More interesting-- and more fun-- are sharp climbs in Connecticut (32%) and Phoenix (28%). Both teams-- but especially Connecticut-- have been treated well by regional papers, who run stories even when there's no score to report.

San Antonio has climbed 12%, to almost 9,000. How many tickets can they sell if they win some games?