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Speaker 1: Multiple sources told the Sports Business Journal that Cleveland has

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Speaker 1: a ninety percent chance of becoming the WNBA's next expansion city.

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Speaker 1: Cleveland's bid is worth a league record two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty million dollars, per sbj's Tom Friend. That's twice what

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Speaker 1: the two most recent expansion squads coughed up to join

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Speaker 1: the league. An official announcement about the WNBA's sixteenth team

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Speaker 1: is expected sometime in March. For more women's sports stories,

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