Obit of the Day (Historical): P.L. Travers (1996) Helen Goff first began storytelling to calm her younger sibling when her mother told her one evening that she was going to leave and drown herself. Helen was ten.
While the WNBA season is an action-packed 34 games, many players spend their offseasons continuing to play the game of basketball. Many travel overseas to play in leagues in Russia, Israel, or Italy, just to name a few.
The game grew over the next few decades, until it stabilized in 1920 with 16 teams averaging about 6 games per week, twice as many as are played in basketball. A full season consisted of 154 games, reflecting the fact that Major League Baseball was divided into two sets of eight teams: A club would play each of its seven rivals 22 times.