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The Los Angeles Sparks will tip-off the 2010 season with two preseason games outside of Los Angeles, including one in Long Beach State University\u2019s Pyramid, versus the San Antonio Silver Stars on Saturday, May 8th.<\/p>\n
The inaugural WNBA game in San Diego will be a rematch of sorts for USA Basketball Women\u2019s National Team Members Tina Thompson, DeLisha Milton-Jones and Candace Parker as they take on the team they defeated in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have the amazing opportunity to play against two great teams in two outstanding facilities,\u201d said Sparks President Kristin Bernert. <\/span>\u201cMany of our fans are located in Long Beach, and we have season ticket holders that travel from as far as San Diego. <\/span>These games give us an opportunity to bring the games to them, while also creating new fans throughout Southern California.\u201d<\/p>\n The China National Team comes to the United States to play two preseason games against WNBA opponents. <\/span>After facing the Sparks at Viejas Arena, they will travel to San Antonio to take on the Silver Stars. <\/span>The Sparks will then make the short trip to Long Beach for a rematch against the Silver Stars, their Western Conference foes, after the 2009 season series ended with a 2-2 tie.<\/p>\n The Sparks have long ties with Long Beach State University, having last played on the campus in 2004, while current VP\/GM Penny Toler is a distinguished alumna and has her jersey retired in The Pyramid. <\/span>The Sparks will also hold an open practice at the Pyramid on Friday, May 7th for fans to meet the 2010 team, watch practice, and participate in autograph sessions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of two exhibitions outside of LA, the Sparks will play the San Antonio Silver Stars in the Pyramid on May 8th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}