Over at WBOL, Kim Callahan has decided, correctly, that the debate over whether and how Sacramento should build a new arena counts as a women's hoops story.

Today's Sac Bee goes to town on the issue: columnists say build it. Developers propose a deal. A Sac State public policy prof has a plan. The editorial board sums up: "the political elite ...don't want to incur the public's wrath by throwing too much public money at a new arena. Neither, it seems, do they want to fail and thus be blamed for losing the Kings."

Do stadiums benefit cities? If so, how? It's for questions like these that I go to the Sports Economist, who weighs in on Sacramento here. The SE has other developments and opinions on stadium funding here, and here, and here, and here.

If the Maloofs moved the Kings, would they take the Monarchs? Or would the Monarchs stay, as the Sting did?