Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Diana Lorena Taurasi (born June 11, 1982 in Chino, California) is a professional basketball player who plays for the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA and UMMC Ekaterinburg from Russia.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Sancho Lyttle and Cathrine Kraayeveld scored 12 points apiece Thursday and the Atlanta Dream rolled to an 81-65 win over the shorthanded Phoenix Mercury.
The Mercury announced earlier in the day that guard Diana Taurasi will be out indefinitely with a strained left hip flexor, an injury the four-time reigning WNBA scoring champion sustained in training camp.Angel McCoughtry, Armintie Price and Lindsey Harding added 10 points each for the Dream, who improved to 2-2 on the season.The two-time defending Eastern Conference champions used a 24-11 difference in the second quarter to take a 43-27 lead at halftime.DeWanna Bonner scored 22 points and Candice Dupree had 14 to lead the Mercury, who fell to 1-3 after their second straight loss.Taurasi missed Phoenix's season opener against Minnesota and played sparingly against Tulsa before scoring 18 points in a loss last Saturday to Los Angeles in the team's home opener.She was not with the team in Atlanta and will be re-evaluated on a day-to-day...In a rematch of last year's WNBA Western Conference final, the defending champion Minnesota Lynx defeated the Phoenix Mercury, 105-83, on Sunday at Target Center.The...
Tamika Catchings was thrilled to be back on the court.While most of her teammates on the U.S. Olympic women's basketball team spent the winter playing overseas, she ...
Candice Dupree had 20 points, five rebounds and three assists to lead the Phoenix Mercury to a 78-65 win over the Washington Mystics on Friday night.Diana Taurasi , ...
Asjha Jones was added to the U.S. women's Olympic basketball team Monday, making half the roster former UConn Huskies.Jones joins Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Swin Cash,...
Baylor standout Brittney Griner will not play for the U.S. women's basketball team at the London Olympics this summer.The 6-foot-8 Griner, who was considered a candi...
The Phoenix Mercury signed guard Diana Taurasi year contract extensions on Monday.Taurasi tied Atlanta's Angel McCoughtry for the league lead in scoring, averaging 2...
WNBA standout and former UConn star Diana Taurasi tested positive for modafinil while playing in a professional women's league in Turkey, the country's basketball fe...
American basketball star Diana Taurasi has had her contract terminated by Turkish club Fenerbahce after her "B'' sample tested positive for doping.The Istanbul club ...
Geno Auriemma is standing by his former Connecticut star Diana Taurasi .Auriemma said Taurasi told him that she didn't take the banned substance — modafinil — that s...
The U.S. women's basketball team headed to the London Olympics this summer will have a familiar feel for coach Geno Auriemma .Five former UConn Huskies — Sue Bird, D...
The heavily favored U.S. women's basketball team will have no shortage of talent and experience when they seek a fifth consecutive gold medal at the London Olympic l...
The U.S. women's basketball team headed to the London Olympics this summer will have a familiar feel for coach Geno Auriemma .Five former UConn Huskies — Sue Bird, D...
Diana Taurasi and the Phoenix Mercury opened the season with three consecutive losses, so they had no problem keeping their cool when they trailed by 11 in the fourt...
Lisa Leslie, Cynthia Cooper and Diana Taurasi lead the list selected as the WNBA's Top 15 players of all time.The selections, announced Saturday during halftime of t...
Diana Taurasi is heading back to Turkey after being cleared of doping allegations she faced while playing in the country.Turkish club Galatasaray said in a statement...
A Turkish newspaper says teammates of basketball star Diana Taurasi have resisted doping tests in Turkey because they don't trust the lab that found her sample posit...
Diana Taurasi was always confident she would be cleared of doping allegations.It finally happened on Wednesday.Taurasi had her provisional suspension lifted by the T...
WNBA star Diana Taurasi's backup doping sample came back positive and she faces a possible two-year ban, Turkish news reports said Monday.The Turkish basketball fede...
Diana Taurasi insists she did nothing wrong.The former Connecticut women's basketball star says she hadn't even heard of the banned stimulant modafinil until she fou...
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