Seattle beat the Sting in what Seattleites consider a slow, tough, uninspiring win, though Seattle led by 10 at the half and scored 79 points. Sue Bird: "We didn't play well, and we still won." Pelton liveblogged the Seattle home game as always.

Janel Burse (11-13, 27 points) had her way with the Sting's slow and/or short posts. Sting jump shooter Jia Perkins racked up 21; Allison Feaster did not play.

Former Storm starter Sheri Sam got her ring last night, then got chatty with her former teammates. Lauren Jackson says Sam "talks so much crap. The whole game she was talking. She's just funny."

The Seattle P-I asks why attendance in Seattle has risen, but league-wide attendance has declined. Memo to P-I editors: no, the league has not "lost three-quarters of a million fans" compared to last year: that number compares this year's attendance-to-date-- over 1.2 million after 20-24 games per team-- to last year's final reg-season attendance total-- 1.89 million after 34 games per team. Use the per-week and per-game averages, please. Mean per-game attendance is down by 400, but still above 8K, with very explicable declines in L.A. (the team is a lot worse), Charlotte (the team is a lot, lot, lot worse) and Washington (baseball), slightly less explicable decline in Houston.