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Australia and WNBA basketball star Lauren Jackson will undergo surgery on a persistent right ankle injury after the Beijing Games, the Australian Olympic Committee said Wednesday.

Twenty-five players have been named preseason candidates for the Wade Trophy, awarded annually to the top Division I women's basketball player.

Australian and WNBA star Lauren Jackson will undergo surgery on a nagging right ankle injury after the Olympics are over. A statement released by the Australia Olympic Committee said Jackson has an impingement at the front of her right ankle joint. She has required repeated injections to compete in Beijing and will have arthroscopic surgery in Sydney next week.

Seattle Storm forward and Australian Olympian Lauren Jackson will undergo arthroscopic surgery on her right ankle following the completion of the Games, the Australian Olympic Committee announced Tuesday.

The Detroit Shock signed six-time WNBA All-Star Taj McWilliams-Franklin to a one-year contract extension and free-agent Ashley Shields to a seven-day contract Tuesday.

The Detroit Shock signed six-time WNBA All-Star Taj McWilliams-Franklin to a one-year contract extension and free-agent Ashley Shields to a seven-day contract on Tuesday.

The Detroit Shock signed six-time WNBA All-Star Taj McWilliams-Franklin to a one-year contract extension and free-agent Ashley Shields to a seven-day contract on Tuesday. The Shock received McWilliams-Franklin last week in a trade with the Washington Mystics for Tasha Humphrey, Eshaya Murphy and a 2009 second-round draft pick.

The Detroit Shock signed free-agent guard Ashley Shields to a seven-day contract on Tuesday. The Houston Comets selected the 5-foot-10-inch Shields out of Southwest Tennessee Community College with the eighth overall pick in the 2007 draft. She played in 26 games for the Comets last season, averaging 5.3 points and 1.3 rebounds.

The president of the Washington Mystics delivered a blistering assessment of her franchise Tuesday, declaring that the team hasn't "moved one ounce" in its history and that she "might as well shut down" the team if doesn't start winning.

The president of the Washington Mystics delivered a blistering assessment of her franchise Tuesday, declaring that the team hasn't "moved one ounce" in its history and that she "might as well shut down" the team if doesn't start winning. "We cannot continue on this path," Sheila Johnson, also a part owner of the team, said in a rare conference call with reporters.

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