Coming later today: an announcement regarding the WNBA in Tulsa.

Detroit sports columnist Michael Rosenberg treats the Shock as already gone. Why did the Shock "fail" there, despite winning three rings? Rosenberg says it's because southeast Michigan had too many other sports: the Tigers, and college football, and hockey, and so on, sucked up all the Shock's oxygen.

There's something to that. The Mystics, though they usually lost, led the league in attendance until the Washington Nationals came to town in 2005; they haven't led since, though they seem to have done alright (2005 also marked a change of ownership, and the new, better owners gave fewer tickets away).

But the proximate cause of the Shock's move, again, is almost certainly the recent demise of Pistons/ Shock owner Bill Davidson, who showed up at games and clearly liked having the three-time champs in town. (Last year, the Davidson family arranged to sell the Tampa Bay Lightning, too; apparently they didn't want to run an NHL team after his death.)