WNBA champion Candace Parker announces retirement after 16 seasons

Three-time WNBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Candace Parker announced Sunday that she's retiring after 16 seasons. "The competitor in me always wants 1 more, but it’s time," Parker wrote in a social media post. "My HEART & body knew, but I needed to give my mind time to accept it." Parker, 38, had told The Associated Press in November she wanted to play another season if she could get healthy from a foot injury that kept her off the court last season. But she cautioned that she didn't want to "cheat the game," or herself, and expressed the...