The Chicago Sky have been fighting hard in all of their games and coming up short with a (1-3) record coming into their home game against the Los Angeles Sparks (3-1) and Rookie of the Month, Candice Parker. I too had been fighting hard and coming up short in my fight to reunite with my ex-fiancé. So, what better place to be? Chicago basketball, tall women, and Candice Parker, the Naperville, IL hometown hottie-star. Yeah, I was at home.

Chicago had been covered in a think cloud of fog and rain all day long and you couldn’t even see the sky. However, I knew that I would be seeing the Sky one way or another by the end of the night. Looking out my condo window sitting right on Lake Michigan wasn’t presenting any hope throughout the day to see blue skies. So, off to the Chicago Sky I went!

I arrived to a fever pitched arena that was filled to the brim. Local Naperville star, Candice Parker, was back home in to play against the Chicago Sky. It was only fitting that after the game Candice Parker commented that she knew half of the people there that night.

Candice Parker was named the WNBA rookie of the month for May. She had been on a complete tear since entering the WNBA as a rookie out of Tennessee. Candice Parker, not to mention, is also a tall beautiful woman whose grace on and off the court has even made me queasy. Thank You Candice!

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Early on in the game the Chicago Sky went down in the game 38-46 with 5:16 left to play in the 3rd quarter when Chicago’s star rookie, Sylvia Fowles went to block a lay-up and came down hard on her right knee, which was confirmed to be only a sprain. Soon after Sylvia Fowles went down, the Sky’s defense went numb by allowing the Los Angeles Sparks to go up 50-38 after a Candice Parker lay-up.

Heading into the 4th quarter, it looked as if the Chicago Sky was finished and would definitely move to (1-4), however the Chicago Sky had some other thoughts. With 6:38 left to play in the game, the Sky started to make some moves when Jia Perkins hit a lay-up and was fouled and converted the “and 1”, thus pulling the Sky closer, 51-58.

With 5:01 left to play in the game, the score was 55-62 and it was obvious the Sky were coming back strong. So strong that during their timeout, Caspar came out and performed his “Cha-Cha Slide” and what ensued afterward made me wiggle my butt in my media seat. Women and men began to flow down the aisles and onto the basketball court to wiggle their butts to the “Cha-Cha Slide”. I had never seen 150 people fill the basketball court before or that many TALL women gathered in one spot at one time.

So after exiting the timeout, the Sky “Cha-Cha’ed” their way back into the game and with 3:20 left to play in the game, Jia Perkins hit a clutch jump shot that tied the game at 62. Los Angeles soon seated themselves in the lead after a questionable non-traveling call on a lay-up that put them up 66-65. The stadium went up in a roar with “boos” With 53.7 seconds left to play in the game the Sky’s Armintie Price stole the ball from Candice Parker and called a quick time-out. The Sky’s Candice DuPree was fouled quickly after the timeout broke and the Sparks were over the foul limit. Candice Dupree sank two free-throws, putting the Sky up, 67-66, with 46.7 left to play in the game.

From here the game got out of hand. With only 5.9 seconds left to play in the game, the game was tied at 69. With the ring of the buzzer, the game went into overtime. The Sparks quickly capitalized on a made shot and a foul placing the Sparks up 74-69. The Sky came right back with their own “and 1” with Armintie Price hitting her free-throw, making the score 74-72. It was the shots that Armintie Price did miss 1 minute later that would kill the Sky’s chances of winning in OT. Armintie Price was fouled and missed both free-throws.

The Chicago Sky lose this one in overtime 77-80.

The Chicago Sky will have to play a more physical game down low if they are going to improve their record of (1-4).

Coach Steven Key said after the game, “I was pleased that we came back, like last week, we lost and we lost a close one, but I don’t want moral victories where we looked good and everything else. I want to win just like everybody else. We have to go back and look at why we can’t seem to get over the hump.”

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