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With four games left in the regular season, the Chicago Sky are venturing into crisis mode. Theyve lost two straight games and reigning MVP Elena Delle Donne has an injured thumb and missed Fridays loss to the Indiana Fever.The Sky, with or without Delle Donne, will try to right the ship Sunday when they visit the also-desperate Connecticut Sun at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn.Delle Donne injured her right thumb last week in a loss to the Washington Mystics. The WNBAs leading scorer told the Chicago Tribune on Thursday that shes day-to-day. Without her, the Sky are in danger of missing the playoffs.Chicago (15-15) closes the regular season against the first-place Minnesota Lynx, the playoff-bound New York Liberty and the Seattle Storm, who are in playoff position as well. Plus, Connecticut beat the Sky 94-89 in their most recent meeting on July 22.Delle Donne scored 20 points in the loss. Connecticut guard Alex Bentley had 21 points and forward Jonquel Jones provided a spark off the bench with her first career double-double with 20 points and 10 rebounds. The win came in the middle of the Suns late-season turnaround.After a bad start to the season, the Sun (11-19) made a late playoff push in mid-July and August, winning five of six at one point to get in the thick of the postseason hunt. But theyve dropped two straight games since and enter Sundays game two games behind the Phoenix Mercury for the final playoff berth.The top eight teams, regardless of conference, qualify for the postseason.The Sun are coming off a hard-fought 89-82 loss to the Liberty on Friday. Chiney Ogwumike had 20 points and nine rebounds, continuing her impressive season. Ogwumike leads the team in rebounding (6.3 rebounds per game) and is second in scoring (12.3 points).If Delle Donne cant go, guard Cappie Pondexter will be looked upon to take on some more of the coming load. 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The Canada Cup was the last Premier Event on the Capcom Pro Tour that rewarded points and half of the top eight were players that needed the automatic berth into the Capcom Cup.Those four players, Red Bulls Masato Bonchan Takahashi, r/Kappa sponsored Takeuchi John Takeuchi Ryota, OpenRecs Shinya Nuki Onuki, and Ronins Alex Myers, came close but will need either a spot into a regional qualifier or good fortune to play in Anaheim for the finals. But, as a result of NuckleDus victory, several USA players did qualify for the Capcom Cup -- names such as Chris Tatarian and Mikey XsK_Samurai Chea.The Canada Cup was an exciting tournament for character variety. The top eight almost had an appearance from rarely-played Birdie or Juri, but did have a Guile and Rashid. In addition, there was a Chun-Li, Nash, Necalli, Ryu and two Cammies. Although the list of characters contained only one real duplicate, the usual suspects (Ryu, Chun-Li, Cammy, and Necalli) once again showed up.The frontrunners of Western prowessIn addition to NuckleDu, BX3 TP-Links Arman Phenom Hanjani of Norway was a star yet again on the big stage. Phenom once again proved that hes arguably on the same level as the vaunted Asian region with another dominating tournament showing. His highlight, a 3-0 drubbing of Red Bull and Twitchs Daigo The Beast Umehara was the perfect example of his growth as a player. Phenom lacked the superior ground game control of Umehara, but made up for it for his bold and fearlesss refusal to be conditioned.dddddddddddd He understood that his v-trigger was the best comeback mechanic for Necalli and was shameless in his use of v-skill. In one round, he command grabbed the Japanese Ryu four times until he was dizzy. But most importantly, he refused to be bullied on wake-up, when he lost the initiative, and when he was losing.On the other side, NuckleDu was spectacular throughout the tournament. His character choices allowed him to float between passivity and ground control with Guile and harder reads and momentum shifts with Rainbow Mika. NuckleDu was superb in ground control, anti-airs, and defensive play and crushed everyone in his path. The way to beat the strongest regions in the world was through the play of both NuckleDu and Phenom -- fearlessness, stubborn tenacity, and strong defense.The Canada Cup grand finals: NuckleDu vs. Xiao HaiNuckleDu not only beat Xiao Hai in the winners finals, but he also beat him in the grand finals to prevent a bracket reset. His switch to a stronger offensive character in Rainbow Mika not only smothered Xiao Hais defensive options, but restricted his movements in the neutral game; even Xiao Hais amazing reactions were kept in check due to NuckleDus unorthodox dropkick timings. NuckleDu was clever in his throw/meaty setups and confused Xiao Hai in several scramble situations. He not only quelled the momentum of the hottest player on the planet, but he beat him twice.The USA star provided a glimpse of hope that regions outside of Asia are truly threats to compete in any tournament regardless of how stacked. ' ' '