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Disappointment meets pragmatism

By Mechelle Voepel
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, October 19, 2009

I know, I know. I'm probably supposed to be wearing black and playing a funeral dirge today, lamenting the loss of a three-time WNBA champion franchise and what that means to the league. I'm probably supposed to fret about the future, to rail against the various forces of economics that have done in the Detroit Shock and changed them to the Tulsa Shock … or whatever the franchise will be called when it relocates to Oklahoma, as was announced Tuesday. I'm probably supposed to rip the WNB ...

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