"We've Got Next"? So, Who Now?

The Houston Comets, four-time winners of the Women's National Basketball Association championship, will suspend operations after the league was unable find a buyer for the team. Pardon me while I hahahahahahaha!

"We are, unfortunately, at a place we hoped that we wouldn't have to be at - the Comets will cease operations in this coming week," WNBA president Donna Orender told said. The rest of the league? Hey, let's not get greedy. Be patient.

"All of our energies were focused on finding a viable ownership group in the city of Houston," Orender said. "As such, going really to the wire with a group that expressed an interest and desire to keep it there, at some point you can't start in another city." Translation: we put all our eggs in the wrong basket and ended up screwing ourselves because of our narrow view. Another, flowery was to say that is "We're really too late to be able to drive success in another market. We were really focused on driving success in the Houston market."

The women's professional league (and I had to resist putting that in quotes) will hold a dispersal draft before the 2009 season, sending Comets players to other teams. Women's basketball sucks so hard I won't even tab this post with sports.