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The Atlanta Dream (25–14) hit the road this afternoon to face the Connecticut Sun (10–29) at Mohegan Sun Arena.

Atlanta has already clinched a playoff berth, but they still have work to do this Labor Day. The Dream sit just half a game behind the Las Vegas Aces for the No. 2 seed, and a win today would bring them even with the league’s hottest team.

Las Vegas has rattled off 12 straight victories, yet Atlanta has a favorable closing schedule. Three of their final five games are against the Sun, who own the league’s third-worst record. The other two are tougher tests against the Los Angeles Sparks, who are fighting with the Indiana Fever for the final playoff spot.

By contrast, the Aces finish with two games against the struggling Chicago Sky, but also have matchups against the Minnesota Lynx and Sparks.

The Dream should get even stronger with Jordin Canada expected back before the postseason. In the meantime, they remain formidable with their balanced core of Allisha Gray, Rhyne Howard, and Brionna Jones.

As for Connecticut, the rebuild continues with limited returns so far. Veteran center Tina Charles, the 36-year-old league legend, is still their top scorer but likely nearing the end of her career.

The Sun have shown some late-season fight, though, climbing out of the cellar with five wins in their last eight — including victories over fellow strugglers Chicago and Washington.

Rookie guard Leila Lacan has been a bright spot, scoring 22 points in back-to-back games last week. She, along with the Sun’s…

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UNCASVILLE — The Connecticut Sun looked the equals of the third-place Atlanta Dream for three and a half quarters, but the team couldn’t carry the momentum through the final buzzer in a 93-76 loss on Monday at Mohegan Sun Arena.

It was the Sun’s second straight loss after falling to the Minnesota Lynx on Saturday, and they will face the Dream twice more in the last four regular-season games of 2025.

“I think we lost against Minnesota because they were a better team and they played a better game than us, but I think (Monday) that wasn’t the case,” Sun coach Rachid Meziane said. “Atlanta is a great team, but we showed very good things in the first half and then we forgot our toughness in the locker room. We didn’t come back in the second half with what was required to win this game.

“It was a winnable game. We stopped playing defense in the last quarter, and we gave up the game.”

On the day the Sun were giving away bobbleheads of veteran Tina Charles, the UConn legend delivered 22 points and eight rebounds while shooting 50% from the field. Rookie Leila Lacan had another standout performance with 17 points, four assists, two steals and a block, and Marina Mabrey added 12 points plus three assists.

It wasn’t enough to overcome a balanced effort from Atlanta’s trio of All-Stars. Rhyne Howard led the Dream with 23 points, three assists and two steals, while MVP candidate Allisha Gray added 17 points plus five rebounds. Former Connecticut star Brionna Jones posted a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Atlanta finished with five players scoring in double-digits, also getting 17 points from forward Naz Hillmon and 15 from guard Jordin Canada off the bench in her…

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The Connecticut Sun started September with a sputtering fourth quarter against the Atlanta Dream, which led to a 93-76 loss at Mohegan Sun Arena on Monday.  

The Sun (10-30) had been rolling of late. But Monday’s loss represented their second loss in a row, both against playoff-bound teams. Since Aug. 13, when Connecticut ended a five-game losing streak, the Sun are 5-4 in their last nine games. It remains their best stretch of the season as they prepare for Wednesday’s game with Chicago in the Windy City.

The Dream (26-14) have won four of their last five games since beating Minnesota on Aug. 21 Atlanta has four games remaining and is preparing for back-to-back home games with the Los Angeles Spark later this week. The Sun and the Dream will play each other in the final two games of the regular season next week.

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It was the fourth quarter that did in the Sun. Connecticut had a 48-42 lead going into halftime. While Atlanta overtook Connecticut, 67-66, going into the fourth quarter, the game could have gone either way.

But the Dream took care of that in the final quarter. The Sun’s Saniya Rivers briefly gave them the lead with a layup 19 seconds into the fourth quarter. From there, the Dream scored the next six points to take a 73-68 lead with 8:10 left. Connecticut’s Tina Charles interrupted the run with a short jump shot and for the next few minutes, she and her teammates were able to keep the game close. With 5:07 left, two Rivers free throws cut the Dream’s…

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Wilkes-Barre, PA – The Huntsville sophomore filly Calamity Hour overcame a very difficult first-over trip to take the $15,500 pacing distaff feature on Monday (Sept. 1) afternoon at Pocono Downs at Mohegan Pennsylvania in 1:52.1.

Favored in the headline contest, Calamity Hour waited in fourth early as chief rival Odds On Aces Full passed the first three poles in :27.3, :57, and 1:25.3 while in front. The winner started an uncovered move down the backstretch, quickly reached the pacesetter, and then grinded away inexorably and worked by the game leader late while posting a 1-1/4 length decision. Calamity Hour paced her own back fractions in :55 – :27 in the impressive win.

Calamity Hour is one of four sulky successes on the day for Anthony Napolitano as the mare wins the Monday feature at Pocono. Curtis Salonick photo.

Deborah Daguet trains the talented 3-year-old for Donald Mac Rae and her own Daguet Racing LLC. Calamity Hour was driven by Anthony Napolitano, who had a total of four victories on the day to lead the horsemen, including wins in all three of the claiming handicap trots. (Two of those winners are trained by Anthony Faulkner, the only conditioning doubler on the day.)

The feature was for “nw 5 races” company; there were also three $15,000 contests for horses in the basic “nw 4 races” bracket. The section for male pacers saw the Always B Miki gelding Laugh Shop streak to his third win in his last four starts in 1:50.4, with potential pocket rocket Chief Bogo staying close but still finishing 1-1/2 lengths shy in a :27.3 last quarter. Matt Kakaley drove Laugh Shop for trainer Jill Wine and the partnership of Samuel Abdoo and Wine Stable.

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  Alexa Philippou

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  • Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA
  • Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
  • Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer

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  • Spent seven years at the Los Angeles Daily News

Aug 19, 2025, 11:11 AM ET

The Connecticut Sun ownership intends to present multiple options to the WNBA as it looks to salvage what would have been a record-breaking $325 million franchise sale, sources with knowledge of the situation told ESPN.

The Mohegan tribe, which has owned the franchise since buying and relocating the Orlando Miracle in 2003, is seeking clarity on the league’s desired path forward for the organization, sources said, after an agreement to sell the team to a group led by former Boston Celtics minority owner Steve Pagliuca was met with resistance from the league office.

After news broke of the deal’s existence — and Pagliuca’s eventual plan to relocate the franchise to Boston — a league statement emphasized that “relocation decisions are made by the WNBA Board of Governors and not by individual teams,” and that cities that have already gone through the expansion process have priority over Boston, which did not submit an expansion bid in any of the three recent expansion rounds over the past three years.

Among the Mohegan tribe’s likely proposals to the league, according to sources:

• A full franchise sale to Pagliuca’s group.

• A sale to a group headlined by former Milwaukee Bucks owner Marc Lasry, who would move the team to Hartford, Connecticut.

• Selling a minority stake in the organization.

• Allowing the league to purchase the franchise for $325 million and relocate it from the WNBA’s smallest market.

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