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Mercury becomes title favorite with Griner

With most of their star players healthy again, the Phoenix Mercury were expected to be back among the WNBA favorites after a dismal 2012 season.The addition of Brittney Griner ratchets expectations up even more.The 6-foot-8 center is one of the most highly touted players to enter the WNBA after the Mercury selected her with the No. 1 overall pick of the draft.She will join a team that already has stars like Diana Taurasi, Penny Taylor, Candice Dupree and DeWanna Bonner.With most of those players battling injuries last season, the Mercury finished with the WNBA's second-worst record at 7-27.Phoenix won the WNBA lottery, though, and the addition of Griner makes the Mercury the favorite to win a third WNBA title....

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  1. Report: Basketball star Diana Taurasi's B sample also positive for banned stimulant in Turkey

    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...

  2. AP Interview: Basketball star Diana Taurasi denies taking banned stimulant modafinil

    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...

  3. Team USA Vs. China, Women's Olympic Basketball: Diana Taurasi Leads Americans To Record-Matching Win

    Just three days after the Team USA men's basketball team set the Olympic record for most points scored in a game, the women's team matched the total points record by...

  4. Candice Dupree scores 20 points, Diana Taurasi adds 15 to lead Mercury over Mystics 78-65

    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 , ...

  5. Griner ready for Mercury's tempo

    Brittney Griner couldn't stop smiling at her introductory news conference with the Phoenix Mercury.It's hard to blame her.One of the most dominating players in the h...

  6. Baylor's Brittney Griner taken first in WNBA Draft

    The Phoenix Mercury selected Brittney Griner with the top overall pick in the 2013 WNBA Draft on Monday.Griner, a center from Baylor University, led the Bears to the...

  7. UConn women win 8th title in rout of Louisville

    His eighth national championship in hand, Geno Auriemma wanted to savor the moment and not talk about a dynasty just yet.He had just tied Pat Summitt for the most ti...

  8. Auriemma looks for eighth national championship

    Geno Auriemma has never lost an NCAA championship game.His UConn Huskies haven't had to face a team like upstart Louisville, which is making an unprecedented run thr...

  9. Griner No. 1 pick by Phoenix Mercury in WNBA Draft

    Brittney Griner left an indelible mark on women's college basketball. Now she's ready to take on the pros.The Phoenix Mercury took Baylor's star center with the top ...

  10. Big Three set for WNBA draft

    When the WNBA holds its annual draft Monday night, it's expected Baylor's Brittney Griner will be chosen first and Delaware's Elena Delle Donne and Notre Dame's Skyl...

  11. Baylor's Griner captures women's Naismith Award

    Baylor senior Brittney Griner won the Naismith Award as women's college basketball Player of the Year for the second straight year on Monday.Griner became the sevent...

  12. Taurasi, Taylor ink extensions to stay with Mercury

    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...

  1. After missing games, Diana Taurasi says she's healthy and will 'be ready to go' for Olympics

    Diana Taurasi is healthy again and raring to go.The Phoenix star missed the Mercury's last 16 games with a hip flexor and ankle injury, but said she is ready for the...

  2. After the 'hurricane': A relieved Diana Taurasi reflects on her turbulent road to London

    Diana Taurasi knows it could have been all different.Had her suspension for a banned substance in 2010 not been thrown out, odds are she would still be fighting it i...

  3. Diana Taurasi's 27 points helps Phoenix Mercury beat Minnesota Lynx 112-105

    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...

  4. Lisa Leslie, Cynthia Cooper and Diana Taurasi lead list of WNBA's top 15 players of all time

    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...

  5. Diana Taurasi to play for new club in Turkey

    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...

  6. Diana Taurasi's teammates demand doping samples be tested in Germany, not Turkey

    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...

  7. WNBA star Diana Taurasi cleared of doping charges as Turkish Federation lifts suspension

    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...

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