The Houston Comets, a franchise that won the first four WNBA championships, is disbanding.The league-owned team will be shut down because new owners couldn’t be found.”You have to build on strength,” WNBA president Donna Orender told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “My outlook is to build on the fact that the league has great momentum and in Houston we didn’t have the enough runway to get a deal done in time for the 2009 season. So right now we have to move on.

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