Diana Taurasi News

VANCOUVER, British Columbia a ' Eddie the Eagle will be back in Canada but he won't be doing any flying.

British comedian Ricky Gervais has been picked to host Hollywood's Golden Globe Awards show.

Tim McNeill of Falls Church, Va., made an impressive debut at his first major international competition, finishing third in qualifying at the world championships Tuesday in London.

Diana Taurasi had a W.N.B.A. season to remember, winning the scoring title; the regular-season and finals most valuable player awards; and her second title in three years with the Phoenix Mercury.

Content Foxsports TV Site Map Network Sites: news.com.au FOX SPORTS Basketball Australia's Penny Taylor claims second WNBA title with Phoenix October 10, 2009 Australia's Penny Taylor again displayed her big match pedigree to help Phoenix win their second WNBA championship in the deciding game five against Indiana on Saturday .

Diana Taurasi was hoisting the championship trophy in one hand and the Most Valuable Player award in the other as she stood on a U.S. Airways Center court littered with confetti.

Golf has a tee time for 2016, and Tiger Woods can hardly wait. The sport returns to the Olympics for the first time since 1904 amid the spectacular backdrop of Rio de Janeiro's sand and sea, giving Woods the chance to do something even the great Jack Nicklaus never did -- win Olympic gold.

Golf has a tee time for 2016, and Tiger Woods can hardly wait. The sport returns to the Olympics for the first time since 1904 amid the spectacular backdrop of Rio de Janeiro's sand and sea, giving Woods the chance to do something even the great Jack Nicklaus never did - win Olympic gold.

Diana Taurasi appears in a video that plays on the scoreboard at US Airways Arena before Mercury games, and in it she's emitting what you might call a primal scream.

After more than a century on the sidelines, golf will return to the Olympics at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, and rugby, last played in 1924, is also coming back.

Six months of shaky decisions and turmoil came to a head for the U.S. Olympic Committee on Wednesday when its acting chief executive said she would step down, bringing more chaos to an organization that was humiliated when Chicago's bid to stage the 2016 Games fell flat.

Current senior Tina Charles was one of five players with UConn ties named to a the 13-player USA Basketball women's national team that will participate in the Ekaterinburg International Invite starting Friday in Russia.

Phoenix's Diana Taurasi swears she actually prefers it this way: being on the road, playing in an arena of people cheering against her.

Here is the news you've been waiting for from USA Basketball's own mouth.... "After training for six days in Washington, D.C., 2009-12 USA Basketball Women's National Team members and Olympic gold medalists Sue Bird , Sylvia Fowles and Candace Parker will lead a USA squad in Russia in the four-team 2009 Ekaterinburg International Invitational.

Phoenix's record-shattering 120-116 overtime victory in Game 1 Tuesday night still had the Mercury's Diana Taurasi shaking her head on Wednesday.

Geno Auriemma held his first formal meeting Tuesday night with the women's national basketball team in Washington, a prelude to today's opening practice at American University.

Coach Geno Auriemma was at ease on the first day of the U.S. women's basketball training camp.

As days go, I would imagine Tuesday was fairly exhilarating for women's basketball fans - and those who plan events for them - in the Greater Hartford area.

The most incredible year of Renee Montgomery's athletic career is about to get so much better.

And the winner for best WNBA regular season performance game after game: That would be former Connecticut star Diana Taurasi of the Western Conference postseason and regular-season champion Phoenix Mercury.