Together as opponents; Janel McCarville's Charlotte Sting meets Lindsay Whalen's Connecticut Sun in a WNBA preseason game.(SPORTS)

From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) | Date: May 8, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Michael Rand; Staff Writer

Hundreds of miles from Minnesota and hundreds of miles apart, Lindsay Whalen and Janel McCarville had the same reply to the standard question, "What are you up to?"

"Just chillin'," McCarville said Wednesday from Charlotte, N.C.

"Just chillin'," Whalen said Thursday from Connecticut.

But they won't be just chillin' today, when McCarville and the Charlotte Sting travel to Connecticut to face Whalen and the Sun. Though it is only an exhibition game, it will be McCarville's WNBA debut as well as the first of what likely will be ...

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