In case you think Helen buried the lede this morning, here's the sight of relief all over Atlanta news on the Dream: Kathy Betty has, indeed, saved the team.

Better yet, she seems to have the two ingredients a good independent owner needs: boundless enthusiasm for women's hoops, and the ability to cover the losses if the team doesn't pay for itself. The Dream become the fourth WNBA team owned largely or wholly by women (the others are the Storm, the Sparks and the Mystics).

"I'm a sports advocate," Betty said yesterday. "I'm highly competitive, probably a little bit over the edge. All of the sudden it was like, "Wow, competition, women's sports, you get to run a business. This is like combining everything." She added a pun: "We led the league in rebounding."