From at the Baltimore Sun: McCoughtry is living the Dream as a star in WNBA, Europe

Know this, though: McCoughtry is in the big time now, and no amount of sleep deprivation could deny that fact. When she awoke Friday, she knew she had come a long way from her Northwood neighborhood roots in Baltimore. There was no need to pinch herself for a reality check.

"No, because I worked too hard for this," she said by cell phone.