Lauren Jackson scored 17 of her 23 points in the first half and teammates Sue Bird and Tanisha Wright hit key shots in the final minutes to help the Storm open the season with an 81-67 victory over Los Angeles on Sunday.
Wright scored 17 points, Bird added 14 and Seattle outscored Los Angeles 22-5 in the final eight minutes. Tina Thompson, the lone player remaining from the inaugural WNBA season of 1997, led Los Angeles (0-2) with 19 points. Candace Parker was held to two points in the first half and finished with 10.
Liberty 85, Sky 82
At New York, Cappie Pondexter and Taj McWilliams-Franklin got the new-look Liberty off to winning start in their New York debuts.
Pondexter scored 22 points, McWilliams-Franklin had 20 and the Liberty won their season opener.
Mystics 87, Lynx 76
At Minneapolis, Minnesota, Monique Currie scored 27 points as the Washington Mystics spoiled Lindsay Whalen’s home debut for Minnesota.
Whalen, acquired in a January trade with Connecticut, finished with 12 points, seven assists and four rebounds, but the Lynx lost a 15-point second-quarter lead and faded in the second half, while Currie and former Lynx star Katie Smith led the Mystics to their second win in two days.
Dream 66, Fever 62
At Atlanta, Georgia, Erika DeSouza had 14 points and 11 rebounds as Atlanta held Indiana to four points in the fourth quarter.
The NHL postponed the Los Angeles Kings’ home game against the Calgary Flames on Wednesday with several massive wildfires burning across the greater Los Angeles area. The Kings and Flames were scheduled to play on Wednesday night at the Kings’ downtown arena. The NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers were scheduled to host the Charlotte Hornets in the same arena last night. “Our hearts are with our entire Los Angeles community,” the Kings said in a statement. “We appreciate the hard working first responders who are diligently working to contain the fire and protect our community. We appreciate the league’s support in keeping our
Doping fears prevented former US Open champion Emma Raducanu from treating insect bites on the eve of the Australian Open, she said, with players increasingly wary about ingesting contaminated substances. The British player was speaking in the wake of high-profile doping cases involving Iga Swiatak and Jannik Sinner. “I would say all of us are probably quite sensitive to what we take on board, what we use,” the 22-year-old said, recalling an incident on Friday. “I got really badly bitten by, I don’t know what, like ants, mosquitoes, something. I’m allergic, I guess,” she added. The bites “flared up and swelled up really a
TWO IN A WEEK: Despite an undefeated start to the year playing alongside Jiang Xinyu of China, Wu Fang-hsien is to play the Australian Open with a Russian partner Taiwan’s Wu Fang-hsien yesterday triumphed at the Hobart International, winning the women’s doubles title at the US$275,094 outdoor hard-court tournament, while McCartney Kessler lifted the trophy in the women’s singles. Fourth-ranked Wu and partner Jiang Xinyu of China took 1 hour, 15 minutes to defeat Romania’s Monica Niculescu and Fanny Stollar of Hungary, 6-1, 7-6 (8/6) at the Hobart International Tennis Centre, their second title in a week. Wu and Jiang on Sunday won the women’s doubles title at the ASB Classic in Auckland, beating Serbia’s Aleksandra Krunic and Sabrina Santamaria of the US. Their winning ways continued in Australia as they stretched
EL CLASSICO: La Liga champions Real Madrid would face Barcelona in the Super Cup final tomorrow. Barça secured their final spot after a 2-0 win over Bilbao on Wednesday Real Madrid would chase a record-equaling 14th Spanish Super Cup title in the final against Barcelona after second-half goals by Jude Bellingham and Rodrygo helped them to a 3-0 win over Mallorca in the semi-finals on Thursday. England midfielder Bellingham broke the deadlock after the hour mark with a low shot into the middle of the goal before Mallorca defender Martin Valjent’s own goal doubled the lead in stoppage time followed by a Rodrygo strike from close range. Spanish champions Real are to play Barcelona for the trophy tomorrow after goals by Gavi and Lamine Yamal earned Barça a 2-0 win over
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