houston comets
The four-time WNBA champion Houston Comets will suspend operations. [1]
Toyota Center is home to the Four-Time WNBA Champion Houston Comets. [...] Led by Head Coach & General Manager Van Chancellor, the Comets play a summer slate of regular season games from May through August. [2]
The Houston Comets were a Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Houston, Texas. [3]
The Comets feature WNBA All-Stars Tina Thompson and Sheryl Swoopes along with 2003 WNBA Most Improved Player of the Year Michelle Snow. [2]
They capped off a good inaugural season in 1997 with a win over the New York Liberty in the WNBA championship game to win the WNBA’s first championship. [...] They beat the Phoenix Mercury in the Finals that year. [...] Formed in 1997, the team is one of the original WNBA teams and after winning four championships in the first four years of the league’s existence, the Comets are also the first dynasty of the WNBA. [...] After being eliminated in the first round of the playoffs to the Sacramento Monarchs in 2006, the Comets underwent major front-office changes during the off-season. [...] In October 2006, team owner Leslie Alexander (who also owns the NBA’s Houston Rockets team) announced he was selling the Comets, and longtime Head Coach Van Chancellor resigned in January 2007. [...] The team had the WNBA’s first WNBA MVP in Cynthia Cooper, college and national team standout Sheryl Swoopes and college star Tina Thompson. [3]
The Comets play host to some of the best women’s basketball players in the world, facing the likes of Lisa Leslie (Los Angeles Sparks), Lauren Jackson (Seattle Storm), Diana Taurasi (Phoenix Mercury), Chamique Holdsclaw (Washington Mystics) and Tamika Catchings (Indiana Fever). [2]
In 2000, the Comets went all the way to the Finals again, and beat the Liberty in two games to win their fourth title in a row, becoming known as a sports dynasty. [...] In 1999, led by what was already known as the Big Three, (Sheryl Swoopes, Cynthia Cooper and Tina Thompson), the Comets survived a highlight film last second, court to court game winning shot by the Liberty’s Teresa Weatherspoon in Game 2 of the finals to beat the Liberty in three games and win their third straight title, this one after the death of teammate Kim Perrot, who died of cancer. [3]
Sources:
[1] Houston Comets - Yahoo! Sports (sports.yahoo.com/wnba/teams/hou)
[2] :: Houston Toyota Center :: Houston Comets (houstontoyotacenter.com/comets.php)
[3] Houston Comets - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/