At home, New York made beating the Mystics look easy.

The Basket Cases claim that it's the worst they've ever seen the Mystics play. Taj had a big double-double, but it didn't matter: the Liberty led by 21 at the half.

One oddity for media-conscious Lib fans: now that the Dolans own both the Liberty and the Long Island newspaper Newsday, shouldn't the latter run a story when the former win a home game?

CLARIFICATION: some friendly body at Newsday wrote Helen to say that the Dolans haven't acquired the paper yet, and that a Lib did run-- though that story was nowhere on Newsday's sports web page this morning. (I didn't see it. And I searched.)

In Newsday's defense, other papers-- especially the Detroit News, which covers the Shock pretty well-- sometimes have similar problems: a story (a filed story, not a wire report) shows up in the print edition and in a Google News search for "WNBA," but not on the front Sports page of the newspaper's site. (Of course, the problem may just be my eyesight.)