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…
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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…
COLORADO SPRINGS – Even as a child, Rocky Harris was a charmer. At the grocery store or on the playground, he attracted others, a natural magnet. “He had that charisma,”…
Story by Jeff Metcalfe Arizona State soccer is back in the NCAA Tournament for the second time in three seasons on the strength of fifth-year seniors Nicole Douglas, Alexia Delgado…
Nicole Douglas’ prime reason for returning to Arizona State for a super senior fifth season wasn’t to break long-standing school career records. It’s anything but insignificant, though, that three weeks…
Brianna Turner goes by Breezy, but the nickname doesn’t come close to capturing the essence of one of the WNBA’s most prominent social activists. There is nothing light and breezy…
Penny Taylor doesn’t need to be in the driver’s seat. She’s one of the great wingmen in women’s basketball – with Diana Taurasi on three Phoenix Mercury WNBA championship teams…
Get ready Sage Elizabeth Marshall. You’re in for quite a ride with your two moms, who probably will figure out a way to turn your delivery into a competition, if…