Solomon: Talk of WNBA expansion should always start with Houston

CONTACT FILED: HOUSTON COMETS Comets coach Van Chancellor, Cynthia Cooper, Tammy Jackson, and Sheryl Swoops hold up four trophies representing their four straight WNBA championships during a rally after a parade in downtown Houston, 8/29/00.

Twenty-five years ago, I joined a raucous crowd at Autry Court at Rice University to see the debut of big-time women’s basketball in H-Town.With three of the best players in the world on the same team, a dynamic point guard who would become as beloved as any sports figure in the city’s history, and a coach whose folksy charm rivaled that of Bum Phillips, it was obvious from the very beginning that the Comets were special.

From the get-go, the Comets were more interesting, more fun and flat out better than any team in town.Four straight subsequent WNBA championships — the first four in league history — proved that.Beauty wasn’t just for those who came after winning, but was in the eyes of those first beholding. And once the Comets started playing and winning, the game experience was the most enjoyable we have seen with the possible exception of the “Luv Ya Blue” Oilers and “Heart of a Champion” Rockets.

I know, I know, Cooper, Swoopes, Thompson and company will not be walking through the door again, but it would be so sweet were the Comets, or the WNBA by any other name, returned.“We wanted to make sure that as we think about expansion and adding teams to our 12-team league that we do it in cities that would be highly supportive of a WNBA team,” WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert said.

There should not be ANY additional taxpayer funding of sports so long as the HCHSA and nrgpark refuse to publish all of their spending and sponsorship decisions as line items.

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