I know some of you could care less about the Comets but this story is all too eerie...is Toyota Center the culprit??? Wounds cut deep for Comets Chancellor says Dixon may be lost for rest of season By W.H. STICKNEY JR. Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Lately, Comets coach Van Chancellor has assumed the appearance of an emergency-room doctor darting from one treatment room to another. As the Comets inch closer to the WNBA playoffs, injuries are mounting more frequently than victories. An injury epidemic that has nicked the Comets frequently this season tightened its grip during a 74-62 loss at Sacramento on Tuesday night. "We're a MASH unit right now," Comets director of player personnel Tom Cross said Wednesday after the club traveled from Sacramento to Minneapolis. Tamecka Dixon — filling in for starting guard Dominique Canty, who has been sidelined since July 2 with a broken hand — was carried off at Arco Arena after straining her left Achilles tendon in the third period. "It looks like to me (like) she's played her last game this season," Chancellor said of Dixon. "I don't know that, but it looks pretty tough. "It's a strain, not a tear," said Chancellor. "They (were) carrying her around the (Minneapolis) airport in an electric cart. She's on crutches." Phillips gets X-rays Tari Phillips, who missed most of the preseason and the start of the championship chase because of an abscessed knee, left Tuesday's game with an injured right hand. Chancellor said X-rays revealed a broken bone. Trainer Samantha Hicks said the break was "clean" and involved no displacement of the bone. With 16 points Thursday, Phillips had her best game since signing as a free agent with the Comets in the offseason. More woes for Thompson Tina Thompson, whose strained right calf muscle is on the mend, aggravated the injury during a light workout Monday. Chancellor said that set her potential return back "at least a week." During the same workout, Canty experienced more swelling in her right hand. It's not known when she can return, Chancellor said. On Friday at Minnesota, the Comets will again be down to eight healthy players, three under the roster limit. Last month, after injuries to Thompson and Canty, the Comets petitioned the WNBA and were granted the right to sign veteran Astou Ndiaye-Diatta under the "injury exception" rule. Cross said none of the 14 league teams has ever been allowed to use the injury-exception rule more than once in a season. "I think we're just going to go into this game (Friday) and see how we go," he said. "It's never happened in the league before that a team's needed two injury exceptions. So I don't even know if you can do it." Chancellor said the Comets will survive or fail on the hand fate has dealt them. "We're going to make it; we're going to come back," said Chancellor. "We're going to be tough. We've still got Sheryl (Swoopes); we've still got Michelle (Snow); we've still got Dawn Staley. We're going to play." Cross said every team faces injury issues. "I just think that with the compacted schedule this year, playing so many games in so many days, it's taken its toll on everybody," he said. "We're just getting ours now instead of early." Each WNBA team plays a 34-game schedule. The length of the 2006 season has been reduced by almost two weeks from last season. Hicks said Thompson, Canty, Dixon and Phillips will be held out "for at least the next two games."
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/4091130.html Sorry, there's the link...my title is speculatory as the article isn't specifically about the Toyota Center but I couldn't skip the fact that the Rox and Comets having epically injury-plagued seasons, back-to-back is ODD...multiple injury exceptions and all it was too strange to pass up
I thought you were going to talk about how they had found the body of a dead woman there when they were still building the place.
I thought it was just a bad year for Houston sports. The Rockets were bad, the Texans were god-awful, the Astros are mediocre, and now the Comets aren't doing so hot. I don't have a clue how the 1836 or whatever the soccer team is callled now is performing. The Toyota Center has served well previous to this year.
ITS TOYOTA!!! Seriously NO arena is associated with Coca Cola?!?!? Thats alot better than Toyota... Ive always thought it was cursed...
Did you see the Rockets last season?! Nothing is scarier than the thought that we could go through that again...
yeah, no kidding. I've seen and heard a ghost before...The rockets were a much scarier story last season...
it's silly the way you guys throw your guesses about the abilities of our supporting cast around as if they are facts. they may be bad. they may be good. but right now you don't know sht.
