#expansion-draft

#expansion-draft

Expansion teams are usually bad because they're contingent on being bad. For narrowing the other teams' slices of the revenue pie, they can join the league only at a high cost and at some competitive disadvantage. If they do fashion something workable from everyone's leftovers, a la the Valkyries or Golden Knights, good for them, but that success wouldn't be by design.

Las Vegas Aces president Nikki Fargas poked a little fun at how challenging it is for WNBA franchises to prepare for the biggest free agency period in league history. "You're going to need to have Plan A, Plan B and Plan 9-1-1," Fargas said. "There is nothing normal about this offseason, so you can't look at it from a normal lens."

1992- Pinch-hitter Francisco Cabrera delivers a two-out single in the bottom of the ninth inning, driving in Sid Bream who narrowly beats the throw home for a 3-2 win over the Pirates in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series. 1997 - Kevin Brown pitches a complete game and Bobby Bonilla collects three RBI as the Florida Marlins defeat the Atlanta Braves, 7-4, winning the National League Championship Series, 4-2.