By: Madison Warfel The last time the Indiana Fever and the Connecticut Sun met, a trip to the WNBA Finals was on the line. Tonight, the stakes weren’t quite so high. The 2013 WNBA season is still freshly begun, still in the baby stages of life. A playoff game it was not, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t important. Both teams badly needed to win. Last season the Sun finished with the best record in the Easter ...

By: Madison Warfel They’d made it to the playoffs the last seven seasons.  Four times they’d gone to the Eastern Conference Finals, once to the WNBA Finals. But, each time the Indiana Fever were thwarted, each time they were denied a chance to celebrate a championship. That was before the 2012 season. The 2012 season was different. Yes, they made it to the Conference Finals, like they had four times before. ...

By Wheat Hotchkiss The Fever used their second and third round picks in the 2013 WNBA Draft to add a pair of SEC forwards to their training camp roster. Here's an in-depth look at what each player brings to the organization. Second round pick Hassell has the tools to make it With their second pick and the 21st overall selection, the Fever selected forward Jasmine Hassell from the University of Georgia. The ...

Who will the Fever take in Monday's WNBA Draft? That is the biggest question in Fever-land as the league's 17th annual draft approaches. For Indiana, preparing for its 14th draft and its 14th season, it has the unique position of drafting this year just six months after winning the league title and with virtually its entire roster intact from its championship. So, the question remains, where to improve? Wha ...

  By Manny Randhawa - When Coach Lin Dunn and her Indiana Fever players hoisted up the franchise's first WNBA championship trophy last fall, hundreds of thousands of people witnessed the historic moment. Many of those people were children. And many of those children were girls who saw just how far they could go as women in sports, particularly basketball. Walt Raines thinks that the Fever championship ...

For years and years, Fever executive Kelly Krauskopf heard from area fans, "trade for Katie Douglas!" Not only did she continue hearing it. She acted upon it. Inquiries were made with Douglas' former employer, the Connecticut Sun, and it was obvious that any acquisition was going to require leaping through some major hurdles. Then, in 2008 -- five years ago last week, in fact -- the trade happened. The All- ...

As the Fever's 2013 roster has become more firm in the past week, we had a flurry of activity late Wednesday leading into a weekend which features Tamika Catchings' involvement in the NBA All-Star Weekend in Houston. With regard to the roster, following last week's free agency announcement, I have received questions about Katie Douglas, Erlana Larkins and Erin Phillips ... "will they be back?" The answer, o ...

By Wheat Hotchkiss This week,  Fever President and General Manager Kelly Krauskopf announced that the team had signed Laura Harper to a free agent deal for the 2013 season. A former collegiate star at Maryland, injuries have kept Harper out of the WNBA the past few seasons, but she's now healthy and ready to prove she belongs in the league. At Maryland, Harper had a storied career. She was a starter on the ...

My past year has been a whirlwind of sorts. And all for the good. I got married last April and live with my wonderful wife Melissa and 11-year old stepdaughter Madison (Maddie). In October, the Fever won the WNBA championship and nearly as important, I also won my fantasy baseball championship for the first time in five seasons. I know that's what Fever fans want to hear about ... the PR guy's fantasy baseb ...

Whenever I speak of our Indiana Fever players playing overseas -- whether in China, Australia, Israel, Turkey, Russia or elsewhere in Europe -- I frequently sense that the conversations lead to more questions than actual answers. Certainly the cultures and languages are often different; and certainly there are rules that are different and in many leagues, there are limitations on the number of foreigners or ...