UTEP celebrated El Paso native Kayla Thornton during the UTEP women’s basketball game at the Don Haskins Center on Sunday ...

Under Thornton's watch, the Miner women earned their first-ever conference tournament victory in 2012. Two seasons later, Thornton pushed the team to the WNIT championship game where they ironically ...

The El Paso native and former UTEP Miner saw her number become the first women's basketball jersey to be hang from the rafters inside of the Don Haskins Center on Sunday. Thornton played at UTEP from ...

New York celebrated the city’s first basketball title in 51 years, and Liberty players promised they aren’t done winning ...

The New York Liberty can finally call themselves WNBA champions. After coming up on the losing end of five WNBA Finals, the Liberty captured their first championship, beating the Minnesota Lynx 67 ...

Rebecca Lobo was at Sunday Mass in a cathedral near Madison Square Garden in 1997, the first season for the WNBA and her New York Liberty. It was time for the Sign of Peace ritual. "I turn around ...

The New York Liberty are WNBA champions for the first time, and the celebration was 28 years in the making. New York City held a ticker tape parade and City Hall celebration as part of a full day ...

The New York Liberty are celebrating their first WNBA championship with a full day of festivities in New York City, including a parade down Broadway.

The New York Liberty battled into overtime of the final game of the season to claim the franchise's first WNBA title on ...

After waiting nearly three decades, the Liberty have their first WNBA title. And the city has its first pro basketball crown in more than a half-century. Breanna Stewart found her stroke at the ...

A franchise that, not that long ago, was toiling in the suburbs of New York City in front a few thousand people, at best, but has ridden the surge of WNBA popularity to achieve superteam status and ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Forty minutes stand between the Liberty and their first WNBA title in franchise history. After their stunning 80-77 Game 3 win over the Lynx on Wednesday night on Sabrina Ionescu ...