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Diana Taurasi Tests Positive for Modafinil: 5 Facts About the Stimulant

WNBA leading scorer and former University of Connecticut star Diana Taurasi may have been getting a little help posting all those impressive stats during her career. Taurasi tested positive for Modafinil, a mild stimulant, while playing in an offseason league in Turkey. The drug was detected in a lab test, and Taurasi,...

Lisa Leslie: Media, ESPN Has Failed to Cover WNBA to Its Fullest

NEW YORK -- Lisa Leslie may be the most recognizable name in the history of the WNBA. Her credentials are impressive: two-time WNBA champion, three-time league MVP, eight-time All-Star, and, of course, she was the first player ever to dunk in a WNBA game. Leslie's name recognition, however, goes beyond the avid...

Orender Sees Brighter WNBA Future

SEATTLE -- WNBA President Donna Orender is the eternal optimist about her league, which is clearly preferable to having Chicken Little running the show. So it can't be much of a surprise that on Sunday, in her annual state-of-the-league speech one hour before Game 1 of the WNBA Finals, Orender was all about the good...

The Works: Lauren Jackson and the Wild, Weird WNBA

In Thursday's The Works: when meddlesome owners strike, Rajon Rondo vs. Russell Westbrook, the next Euro cult favorite and Luol Deng returns to Southern Sudan. But first, Lauren Jackson and the WNBA's spirit of innovation. A New Aesthetic Is Born: Revisiting Kwame Brown and the 2001 Draft got me thinking about the way...

Obama Attends WNBA Game After Shooting Hoops

WASHINGTON (Aug. 1) -- President Barack Obama checked out the WNBA's Washington Mystics on Sunday after spending the morning shooting some hoops himself. Obama, his daughter Sasha and a friend of Sasha's had courtside seats for a women's basketball game between the Mystics and the Tulsa Shock at the Verizon Center in...