Penny Taylor will apparently rejoin the Mercury in July, and then stick around for the rest of the season.

Without her, Vodichkova has looked all alone in the post, and the Merc have been getting killed on the boards...

just as they were last season in games without Stepanova. Paul points out that the Merc-minus-Stepanova outrebounded 9 of their 16 opponents last year. And yet, when one watched them lose to good teams, or beat bad ones, one felt that they needed more tall folks who could crash the boards, and Vodichkova often looked lonely around the glass. Same thing this year.