The Washington Mystics and Houston Comets have each gotten off to horrible starts to the season. At least one of them will avoid the same turmoil endured at the beginning of last year when the winless teams square off Sunday at Washington. The Mystics (0-2) won all three of their preseason games, but have been outscored by a combined 30 points in their first two regular-season games.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
Reuters - Hurricane Ike barreled toward Cuba as an
extremely dangerous Category 4 storm on Sunday and was forecast
to sweep into the central Gulf of Mexico as a large and
powerful storm echoing Hurricane Gustav.
