Dan Weil profiles Mystics owner Sheila Johnson.

"My financial advisors said 'why own a women's team, they aren't making money,'" Johnson says. "But I said that's how the NBA started too. Let's make it work."

In a separate feature, Weil names Johnson as the second most powerful woman in sports, behind Sharapova, but ahead of Donna O.

UPDATE: a reader notes that the first article, while listed as one day old, was actually written last summer. Stupid Google news.