The Liberty confirms its self-dismantling. First we learned that VJ and C-Rob would head elsewhere. Now GM Carol Blazejowski says on the record that neither Ann Wauters nor Elena Baranova will return to New York.

The Belgian Wauters and the Russian Supernova prefer to play overseas, and perhaps to train with their national teams for September's World Championship.

Blaze apparently plans to replace her veterans with mixed metaphors. "We had the same nucleus for the past few years and we needed to get over that hump," she tells the New York Times. "I have some pretty good things in the hopper, but I can't talk about them yet."