Posts Tagged ‘WNBA’

In the presence of a true champion

Yesterday, several members of our staff converged on the US Airways Arena to meet with Ann Meyers Drysdale, the Hall of Fame athlete who is now general manager of the two-time WNBA championship Phoenix Mercury and mom to three children ranging in age from 16 to 23. Multimedia journalist Vicki Louk Balint was there to interview [...]

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Teens need vaccines!

Infectious Disease Specialist Maggie Turner, R.N., won’t ever forget the report on a college student who came home over winter break. Turner, who now practices at John C. Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix, was working at a health department in Michigan at the time. The student “had been snowmobiling,” she says. “He went to bed, got [...]

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COACH CHARLI TURNER THORNE: ASU Women’s Basketball Coach Charli Turner Thorne has a passion for the game

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She fell in love with basketball years before there was a WNBA. Back then, few opportunities existed for organized team play for girls, so she’d ride her bike through her Southern California neighborhood to play at the park with the boys. A passion for the game lives deep within Charli Turner Thorne, who has built [...]

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“After Earth” sneak preview

A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape. With Cypher critically injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help, facing uncharted terrain, evolved animal species that now rule the planet, and an [...]

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