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'False Positive' Vindicates Diana Taurasi

Diana Taurasi didn't come off as bitter or angry. But she's both wiser and warier and a little wounded for her experience over the past few months. Taurasi was cleared Wednesday when a Turkish lab retracted results that showed the women's basketball star had tested positive for the banned substance modafinil in a drug...

Washington Breaks Three-Way Tie in WNBA East

The WNBA playoff picture is set, and it went right down to the final day of the regular season. Three teams in the Eastern Conference went into the day tied for first place. And the Washington Mystics were the team that emerged on top, needing a 90-81 win over the playoff-bound Atlanta Dream in order to secure the No. 1...

Tamika Catchings Hopes to Stow Last Year's Pain Away Behind WNBA Title

WASHINGTON -- The intellectual part of Tamika Catchings knows that what happens in this September's WNBA playoffs has little to do with what took place last year. And yet, the emotional part of Catchings knows that last year's pain of getting oh so close to her first professional title with the Indiana Fever won't go away...

Mercury Rise Toward Playoffs

Given the state of the Western Conference this season, maybe Phoenix never did really, truly sweat. Not even when the defending league champion was looking at the ugly reality of a 5-11 record. "Diana would come in after the game and say 'We're still in second place'," Mercury coach Corey Gaines said. "They kept saying...

For Liberty's Pondexter, Career Choices Extend Beyond the Game

WASHINGTON -- Had enough of players who master the art of passive-aggressiveness, saying in one breath that they love playing where they are, then grumbling under the next breath that they wouldn't mind being dealt, if it helps the organization? Meet Cappie Pondexter, whose DNA is apparently devoid of the...

Background on Phoenix Mercury

The Phoenix Mercury is a professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

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