By Jeff Metcalfe Nate Tibbetts is likely correct in saying that Kristi Toliver’s stint with the Phoenix Mercury won’t be for long. With the WNBA expanding to 14 teams by…
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By Jeff Metcalfe Less than an hour after Candace Parker announced her retirement Sunday, Diana Taurasi began what will be her 20th season in the WNBA. Taurasi turns 42 in…
By Jeff Metcalfe While playing the female lead in “Romeo and Juliet” during middle school, Caitlin Duncan couldn’t imagine the meaning that Shakespeare’s famed question what’s in a name would…
By Jeff Metcalfe Emily Sisson was a contender at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, but not like now. Sisson goes into the 2024 trials, Feb. 3 in Orlando, as…
By Jeff Metcalfe Arizona State volleyball fell two wins short of reaching the NCAA Final Four. Maddie McLaughlin, ASU middle blocker, made it to the semifinals in Tampa, Fla., anyway,…
By Jeff Metcalfe In Bristol, Conn., Mat Ishbia had that “what do you mean the Phoenix Suns Big Three still aren’t playing together” look on his face. Even his young…
By Jeff Metcalfe Arizona State volleyball began this season prepared to celebrate its past with a 50-year anniversary and future with first-year coach JJ Van Niel. What, though, of the…
By Jeff Metcalfe Things have a way of working out for MyKayla Skinner … eventually. Her Olympic dream was only partially fulfilled in 2016 when she was a U.S. gymnastics…
By Jeff Metcalfe Vanessa Nygaard was never going to ease into her first season as a WNBA head coach. Hired in late January 2022, Nygaard inherited a Phoenix Mercury team…
Story by Jeff Metcalfe Arizona State needed more than a new women’s basketball coach after Charli Turner Thorne’s retirement. The Sun Devils lost more than three-quarters of their 2021-22 scoring…