{"id":796832,"date":"2026-08-01T05:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796832\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T05:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:33:09","slug":"cleveland-wnba-team-hints-at-sirens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/796832\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland WNBA team hints at \u2018Sirens\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningjournalnews.com\/sports\/local-sports\/\" class=\"article_cat_label\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/haslam-450x300.webp\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam watches a practice on May 20 in Berea. (AP Photo\/Sue Ogrocki)<\/p>\n<p>CLEVELAND &#8212; Cleveland\u2019s new WNBA franchise might not have announced its name just yet, but a strong hint appeared Friday on Edgewater Beach.<\/p>\n<p>A sand sculpture with the words \u201cHEAR THE CALL\u201d plus what appears to be a light blue and white WNBA basketball showed up on the beach ahead of the Sand Fest event scheduled for Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In May an organization associated with the WNBA Cleveland franchise filed for trademarks on the names Sirens, Novas, Riveters, Crown, Founders, Racers and Breakers.<\/p>\n<p>The sand sculpture would seem to align heavily with the Siren nickname since the Siren is mythological creature whose enchanting voice lured sailors into shipwrecks. <\/p>\n<p>The Sirens would not be the first WNBA team with a name based out of mythology. The Golden State Valkyries are based off of the Norse legend of female warrior figures who guides souls to Valhalla. <\/p>\n<p>The Cleveland WNBA franchise has not ruled out reusing the name Rockers which was from a previous failed franchise that played from 1997-2003, but the trademark for the Cleveland Rockers name belongs to the owner and president of the Women\u2019s Basketball League, a proposed professional basketball league that has yet to launch. <\/p>\n<p>The new Cleveland WNBA team, the league\u2019s 16th franchise, will begin play in the spring of 2028. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local Sports Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam watches a practice on May 20 in Berea. (AP Photo\/Sue Ogrocki)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-796832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}