We interrupt our regularly scheduled coverage of the Terps to bring our loyal blog readers news of some WNBA happenings this week. First, the league has just released its schedule for 2007. Mystics fans, put this info in your PDAs now!

Second and third: two sad notes . . . the league announced this week that the Charlotte Sting are folding, and that a dispersal draft will be held for its players next Monday, January 8. The Sting had been owned by Robert Johnson, ex-husband of Mystics' owner Sheila Johnson. Bob acquired the team when he bought the Charlotte Bobcats. Unlike Sheila, he never had much interest in the WNBA, and recently turned the team back to the league (kinda like returning a pair of socks?). And Houston Comets Coach Van Chancellor, coach of the very first WNBA champions (and a few more), announced his resignation on Wednesday. Coach Chancellor was known for throwing candy to fans before each game . . . perhaps the new Verizon Center rules forbiding outside food (as a security/anti-terrorism measure, of course) may have had something to do with his decision to retire. The BasketCases will miss Van, and we wish him all the best.

Disclaimer: This blog is not related in any way to ESPN's PTI, though we think that Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser definitely qualify as "basketcases."