Diana Taurasi

The WNBA just sent this along, knowing as I do, that many of you would be interested in seeing this... It's one columnist's view about who SI's Sportsman of the Year should be and the name will sound very familiar to you. Enjoy this from the WNBA and Sports Illustrated.... http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/magazine/specials/sportsman/2009/10/30/mccallum.taurasi/index.html  

Phoenix G Diana Taurasi spent a day in jail prior to departing to Russia to join her Spartak Moscow team. The incarceration stemmed from a July traffic stop in Phoenix where the WNBA's MVP was cited for extreme DUI and speeding. Those charges were dropped after a judge suspended nine days of Taurai's sentence, leaving just the DUI. Taurasi's blood-alcohol level was 0.17 percent -- twice the legal limit in Arizona (0.08 percent).  

The 2010 FIBA World Championship for Women will be held next September and October in the Czech Republic, and the Phoenix Mercury are very well represented. As of now, two players from the WNBA champion Mercury, Diana Taurasi and Cappie Pondexter, will be donning the red, white and blue for Team USA next fall. FIBA has also [...]  

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix Mercury star Diana Taurasi pleaded guilty to a drunken-driving charge stemming from her July arrest. Taurasi, an all-star guard on the WNBA champions, spent a day in jail after a judge suspended nine days of her sentence....  

2009 WNBA Finals MVP Diana Taurasi celebrates the Mercury's second WNBA title in three years. Bill Baptist/NBAE/Getty Images PHOENIX, AZ, October 9, 2009 -- It was only fitting that in a WNBA Finals many regarded as the finest in the league’s 13 ...  

Phoenix Mercury star Diana Taurasi pleaded guilty to a drunken-driving charge stemming from her July arrest. Taurasi, an all-star guard on the WNBA champions, spent a day in jail after a judge suspended nine days of her sentence. Taurasi's blood-alcohol level was 0.17 percent when she was pulled over on July 2 following a 93-81 victory over the Seattle Storm.  

      Numerous reports from Phoenix have indicated that the courts are starting to take some action on Diana Taurasi, the former UConn All-American and reigning WNBA MVP, as it relates to the charges filed against her in her DIU case from July, Taurasi is in Moscow now playing for Spartak Moscow. But this week, her court case was finally resolved. You'll call that Diana was arrested on July 2 with a blood-alcohol level of 0.17, twice the...