What is the future of this leauge like? I must admit I haven't followed the leauge, othen than read the odd report about its marketing, attendence.... I guess my question is more economic in nature, sponsors, payrolls, attendence, etc.
if the WNBA didn't have the NBA as a sponsor, it would have gone the way of the of the Women's soccer league. I think we're year 7 of the league, and after increasing attendence moderately in years 2-4, the league's had decreases each of the past couple of years. The Sports Guy (espn.com) had a good column on the WNBA a couple of months ago, check out his archives, on the problems the league is having. I watch a fair amount of women's sports, and I have to agree with him on one point: for all that we talk about the better fundamentals in the women's game, which is true to a point, the shooting is equally poor as the men's game, and women have (to generalize here) real trouble grabbing rebounds.