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Byears gets more game.


Whether WNBA WNBA Women's National Basketball Association
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WNBA Wannabe Nasty Boys Association
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 star Latasha Byears Latasha Nashay Byears (born August 12, 1973 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a professional women's basketball player who plays for the Houston Comets in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).  was cut from the Los Angeles Sparks The Los Angeles Sparks are a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1997, they are one of the 8 original WNBA teams and were one of the teams that participated in the league's inaugural game.  last year for being a lesbian (which Byears claimed) or for assaulting another woman at a party (which the team alleged), we may never know. A settlement reached February 10 in a wrongful termination wrongful termination n. a right of an employee to sue his/her employer for damages (loss of wage and "fringe" benefits, and, if against "public policy," for punitive damages).  lawsuit brought by Byears prohibits either side from talking.

But there is one thing we do know: The Washington Mystics don't care either way. The team signed the 32-year-old Byears, who helped the Sparks win WNBA titles in 2001 and 2002, on February 21.
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Title Annotation:SPORTS; Latasha Byears is signed on to Washington Mystics
Publication:The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Mar 28, 2006
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