Good new writing at the official fan blog: Melissa and other Sun fans handle their grief, while pilight Kevin Brown compares the MVP ballots from '03 (when LJ won even though her team missed the playoffs) to the situation this year, when Diana's eye-popping numbers make her a contender.

Had the Mercury played as well in July as they did in August, she'd have my vote; had they done so, they'd have made the playoffs easily.

Raw-data hounds and stats fans should bookmark the (slightly misnamed) official Lynx blog, where Paul keeps crunching the numbers for each playoff game, even though his our Lynx are long out of it. Fun fact from Friday: Haynie was the only Monarch with a positive plus-minus on the night. Will she see more action this afternoon?