Most Excellent!!! The New York Times reaches out to Los Angeles to find a story about women's basketball. Karen Crouse (who has been very busy recently) writes a long piece about a "New Breed of Sports Tycoon Bringing Order to the Court."

Christofferson’s mode of relaxation is also a metaphor for how she lives her life. Over the years, her circles of ambition have grown larger and the bull’s-eyes have become more minuscule: From a tomboy in North Dakota to Miss North Dakota; from a law student at Yale to one of the youngest partners at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm that specializes in entertainment and commercial litigation; from a Los Angeles Sparks season-ticket holder to a team co-owner.

From pompom girls to proprietors, Christofferson and Goodman represent the next stage in the evolution of women in sports: the self-made mogul who neither inherited a team from her father or a spouse, like the late Georgia Frontiere with the Rams, nor bought one with her husband’s wealth, as Marge Schott did with the Cincinnati Reds.