Donna Orender talks expansion and contraction. On the end of the Sting: "We want to operate from a position of strength, and you can't do that when you have a franchise that's holding you back."

David Carter of USC's Sports Business Institute: "It's settling in to being a viable league but not a wildly viable league... It's just viable on a smaller scale."

In San Antonio, beat writer Natalie England encourages local fans to give their Stars another chance. (I've got a feeling that this could be their year.)

And in the international TV ether, more fans will see WNBA games than ever, thanks apparently to new contracts with (mostly) NBA-TV.