CURIOUS ABOUT TEAM STATS, SCORES & HISTORY?

Fun Fact: Even after the team, that never played a game in Tampa Bay, left the area the newspapers kept track of the New England scores – with the hopes the team would return.

In Tribute to the Founders and Owners:

Bill Byrne

 In October 1980, Byrne—then serving as WBL commissioner—established the Tampa Bay Sun as an expansion franchise in the WBL’s Coastal Division.

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The History of the Tampa Bay Sun:

The Tampa Bay Sun were an expansion team added to the Women’s Basketball League (WBL) for the 1980-81 season – but they didn’t make it.

This story, which can accessed by clicking the History area above, is a chronological history of the Tampa Bay Sun including planning, draft, and transactions from a “newspaper perspective”.