Chicago 365 Playoff Central: The Sky is the Limit

     After JRW's success on the Little League diamond, guess what?  We get even more playoff action, this time coming to us from the land of the Women's National Basketball Association.  The Chicago Sky have spent most of the time since their founding in 2006 on the outside of the playoff picture.  Not recently though. Last season the sky made the playoffs but lost in the first round(the WNBA runs its season from May to August with the playoffs coming in September). This year the Sky returned to the postseason and rolled through the first two rounds, beating both Atlanta and Indiana 2 games to 1. And so, they've now made their way to the WNBA finals, which is a best-of-5 format.  They're up against the Phoenix Mercury(a founding member of the WNBA when it started in 1997), who've made the playoffs 9 times and have 2 titles to show for it.  Game 1 of the Finals was contested yesterday, and the results were not beneficial.  The Mercury took it to us early and often, and the Sky ended up losing the game 83-62.  It didn't help that Elena Delle Donne was still suffering from an injured back and only played 11 minutes of the game.  Sylvia Fowles picked up some of the slack by chipping in for 19 points, but the combined forces of Candice Dupree, Diana Taurasi, and Brittney Griner proved to be too much for the Sky.  Game 2 is tomorrow night in Phoenix, and we'll hope for a better result then.