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• Girl Scouts, Chicago Sky partner to celebrate anniversaries May 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Chicago Sky and Girl Scouts of America will come together at the Sky's June 9 home game to honor the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts and the 40th anniversary of Title IX.
  

   

• Sky fall to Fever 83-72May 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  Tamika Catchings scored 22 points and Katie Douglas added 21 to lead the Indiana Fever to an 83-72 victory over the Sky on Friday night.
  

   
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  Meet the 2012 Chicago Sky May 24, 2012 12:00 AM
  Meet the 2012 Chicago Sky as Patricia Babcock McGraw offers a capsule preview of the 11-player roster.
  

   
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  7 key storylines for Sky's 7th season May 24, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Sky plays its home opener against the Indiana Fever on Friday at Allstate Arena in Rosemont. As the team's seventh season gets going, Patricia Babcock McGraw presents seven storylines to follow throughout the WNBA season.
  

   

• Sylvia Fowles leads Sky past Mystics, 69-57 May 19, 2012 12:00 AM
  Sylvia Fowles had 23 points and 12 rebounds and helped key a 29-8 first-half run in the Chicago Sky's 69-57 victory over the Washington Mystics on Saturday night in the season opener for both teams. "We still have some wrinkles we have to straighten out, but this was a good start and definitely a test for us to see what we were made of," said Fowles, the reigning WNBA Defensive Player of the Year.
  

   
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  Previewing the WNBA’s Eastern Conference May 18, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   
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  Previewing the WNBA’s Western Conference May 18, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   
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  Lynx favored to win WNBA title again May 18, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Minnesota Lynx rolled through the regular season a year ago, then kept on cruising through the playoffs to win the club's first WNBA championship. The bad news for the rest of the league is they've got nearly everyone back and open the new season this weekend as the favorites to win again.
  

   

• Action aplenty among area teams May 18, 2012 12:00 AM
  Women's Watch on a big weekend in Chicago women's sports that includes the Sky season opener, the NU lacrosse team vying for another trip to the Final Four and the Northwestern and DePaul softball teams starting their NCAA Tournament runs.
  

   

• Sky sets 11-player roster for season May 16, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Chicago Sky made its final WNBA roster cut Wednesday, waiving DePaul forward Felicia Chester-Wooton to trim its roster to 11 players for the season for head coach and general manager Pokey Chatman.
  

   
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  Minnesota crushes Sky in final preseason game May 15, 2012 12:00 AM
  After winning Monday by a 32-point margin, the Sky lost its final preseason game Tuesday by a 21 points to the Minnesota Lynx, the defending WNBA champions. The Sky trailed 40-25 at the half, and was Minnesota never let up in the 82-61 rout.
  

   

• Sky defeat Liberty in exhibition game May 14, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Chicago Sky blew out the New York Liberty in a WNBA exhibition game Monday, 89-57. The team was without Sylvia Fowles and Swin Cash, who were practicing with Team USA.
  

   

• Penicheiro has the right kind of mileage for Sky May 11, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Sky opens the 2012 season next Friday in Washington against the Mystics, and the plan this season is to go old school this summer to turn over a new postseason leaf. And leading the way will be veteran point guard Ticha Penicheiro, who already has taken the Sky's young guards under her wing, as Patricia Babcock McGraw explains in her weekly Women's Watch column.
  

   
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  Sky releases Naperville’s Wisdom-Hylton May 11, 2012 12:00 AM
  After playing 29 games last season, the Chicago Sky has waived forward Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton and trimmed its WNBA roster to 14 players. Wisdom-Hylton, a Naperville native who as an all-Big Ten performer at Purdue University, was a reserve player in Chicago, averaging 1.7 points and 1.9 rebounds per game. The former Neuqua Valley star played two seasons with Candace Parker and the Los Angeles Sparks before joining the Sky in 2011.
  

   
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  Sky announces its WNBA broadcast schedule May 8, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Chicago Skys broadcast schedule for 2012 includes one national and 27 locally televised contests, with additionals games streamed online via WNBA LiveAccess at chicagosky.net. CN100, part of the Comcast Network, will showcase 15 home and 12 Sky road contests in 2012. Brent Stover will call the play-by-play on all CN100 Sky telecasts and WNBA Live-Access webcasts. Working alongside Stover as color analyst again will be the Daily Heralds Patricia Babcock McGraw, who has covered the Sky since the teams inception.
  

   
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  Sky adds MSU’s Johnson to training camp roster Apr 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  The Chicago Sky has signed forward Lykendra Johnson, a Chicagoan and all-Big Ten performer, to a training camp contract. Johnson, an undrafted free agent from Michigan State University, averaged 10.8 points and 8.6 rebounds per game in her senior season at Michigan State to lead the Spartans to the 2012 NCAA women's basketball tournament. The 6-foot-1 forward was a three time all-Big Ten selection and won the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year award in 2011, her junior season.
  

   
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  Sparks sign All-Star Candace Parker to extension Apr 25, 2012 12:00 AM
  
  

   
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  Sky signs Fowles to multiyear deal Apr 16, 2012 12:00 AM
  While Chicago Sky officials spent the offseason adding some big pieces to their frontcourt, the biggest piece of all finally fell into place Monday with all-star center and Olympian Sylvia Fowles agreeing to a multiyear contract with the team. As the face of the franchise since she joined the team in 2008, the deal for the 6-foot-6 Fowles had been expected for months.
  

   
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  Ogwumike should go No. 1 in WNBA draft Apr 15, 2012 12:00 AM
  There isnt a likely franchise player in WNBA draft on Monday, such as Candace Parker, Angel McCoughtry, Tina Charles and Maya Moore the No. 1 picks the last four years. Those wanting to select 6-foot-8 sensation Brittney Griner will have to wait until next year. But the teams with the top picks dont really need a marquee player to build around. Theyre just looking for someone who can help the team and develop into a star down the road. The Los Angeles Sparks are expected to select Stanfords Nnemkadi Ogwumike at No. 1 overall. She led the Cardinal to consecutive Final Fours, losing to eventual champion Baylor this season.
  

   
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  With Cash in hand, Sky doesn’t need draft help Apr 13, 2012 12:00 AM
  For the first time in its history, the Chicago Sky won't have a high first-round draft pick. In fact, the Sky has no first-round pick in Monday's WNBA draft. But that's not such a bad thing, according to our WNBA expert, Patricia Babcock McGraw.