The city previously had a WNBA team from 1997 to 2008. The Houston Comets won the first four WNBA titles in the league's ...

The WNBA had just 12 teams in 2024. It will have have 18 by 2030, but Houston, which was bidding to bring the Comets back, ...

Houston wasn't chosen for a WNBA expansion team Monday, but commissioner Cathy Engelbert pointed out Houston as a market the ...

The ownership group that's representing Houston plans to continue pursuing a franchise return to location of the WNBA's first ...

To celebrate July 13 — otherwise known as 7/13, i.e. the digits of Houston’s original area code — the Rockets are hosting a ...

Amid some skepticism that the WNBA is expanding too broadly, Commissioner Cathy Englebert hinted Monday that Houston -- whose ...

30 Aug 1997: The Houston Comets celebrate after the WNBA championship game against the New York Liberty at The Summit in Houston, Texas. The Comets won the game, 65-51. Todd Warshaw/Getty Images ...

The Houston Comets won the first WNBA championships in back-to-back-to-back-to-back fashion. Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle With women’s basketball enjoying a popularity boom, the WNBA is expanding.

On August 26, 2000, the Houston Comets won the WNBA title. This was no surprise; four seasons into the league’s existence, the Comets were the only champions it had known.

As the WNBA's 29th season approaches, take a look back at the league’s history. It shows multiple periods of dominance over the past two and a half decades—and it all started in Houston. ; The ...