Satou Sabally perhaps landed on the salient point immediately after the Phoenix Mercury’s dominance over the New York Liberty on Wednesday. “I would say Game 1 was different. This was…
Jeff Metcalfe
In an overtime loss Sunday that they could have won in regulation, the Phoenix Mercury proved their regular-season edge over the WNBA defending champion New York Liberty was not a…
At just the right moment, Satou Sabally is looking unicorn-like again. Because the Phoenix Mercury will not advance beyond the first round of the WNBA playoffs for the first time…
By Jeff Metcalfe The Phoenix Mercury now know for sure they will win a potential WNBA playoff tiebreaker over the defending champion New York Liberty. Extrapolating much beyond that based…
No. 13 Sun Devils open with high profile national TV matches By Jeff Metcalfe JJ Van Niel knows how to adapt and succeed. He’s done it so skillfully with Arizona…
By Jeff Metcalfe The countdown clock, unveiled Tuesday at Sky Harbor Airport, showed 226 days until the 2026 NCAA Women’s Final Four, April 3-5 in Phoenix. Which seems like sufficient…
Jeff Metcalfe The Phoenix Mercury rolled out the red carpet Wednesday for Brittney Griner in her first game back to her WNBA home for 11 seasons at an arena that…
By Jeff Metcalfe If the new-era Phoenix Mercury were one piece short of genuine WNBA title contention, they might have filled that hole with a throwback to their glory years….
By Jeff Metcalfe In distinctly different ways, Alyssa Thomas and Paige Bueckers made elite returns from injury Wednesday. Bueckers, in just her seventh WNBA game, scored a season high 22…
By Jeff Metcalfe The longer Kathryn Westbeld was out of the WNBA, the less likely it seemed that a day like Tuesday would ever come. When Westbeld and her younger…