The Utah Starzz's 7-foot-2 center, Margo Dydek of Poland, has been named the best basketball player in Europe for 1999 by the Italian sports magazine La Gazetta dello Sport, and she was also chosen "Sports Woman of the Year" for Poland.
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Dydek is playing professionally this winter for Gdynia in Poland, the same team for which she played last season.In other WNBA news, the four expansion franchises that will begin play this season announced their nicknames over the weekend. They are the Indiana Fever, Miami Sol, Portland Fire and Seattle Storm. The WNBA schedule is not yet released, but for the first time in the league's three years, it will contain the same number of games as last year, 32. -- Linda Hamilton