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Tempo riding high after record night, Mercury reeling after Alyssa Thomas suspension
Fresh off tying the single-game WNBA scoring record with 53 points, Marina Mabrey and the expansion Toronto Tempo host the Phoenix Mercury on Saturday afternoon.,Mabrey is the talk of the league after her record performance in the Tempo's 125-97 win over Los Angeles on Thursday. The veteran guard we...

Doug Gottlieb, Green Bay agree on contract extension through 2030-31 season
Green Bay and men's basketball head coach Doug Gottlieb have agreed to a contract extension through the 2030-31 season.,The move follows a significant turnaround from his first season in 2024-25, when the Phoenix finished 4-28. Last season, Green Bay posted an 18-15 record, including a 17-10 edge in...

Aces chase Commissioner's Cup final berth as Mercury try to stop slide
The second meeting this season between the 2025 WNBA finalists will look very different this time.,The Phoenix Mercury started the season with what looked like a statement victory over the Aces, a convincing 99-66 win in the regular-season opener on May 9 in Las Vegas. However, the teams have been h...

Mercury lug struggling offense home to face Sparks
The Phoenix Mercury return home after a road-heavy start to face the Los Angeles Sparks in a Commissioner's Cup game on Saturday.,But regardless of where the Mercury are playing, coach Nate Tibbetts wants to see more out of his team.,"This was a step backwards tonight," he said Thursday after an 85-...

League-best Lynx open Commissioner's Cup with struggling Mercury
The downtrodden Phoenix Mercury have endured five straight setbacks and the schedule maker hasn't done them any favors with the Minnesota Lynx visiting town on Monday night.,Minnesota (6-2) owns the best record in the WNBA and has won four consecutive games entering this Commissioner's Cup opener. M...

Rookie Jovana Nogic helps Mercury ruin Aces' title celebration
Rookie Jovana Nogic made an immediate splash in her WNBA debut, scoring all 19 of her points in the first half of the Phoenix Mercury's 99-66 rout of the host Las Vegas Aces on Saturday.,The 28-year-old Serbia native connected on her first four 3-point attempts to lead Phoenix (1-0) to a dominant st...

Report: Phoenix, Vegas potential options if Whitecaps relocate
Las Vegas and Phoenix are the top contenders to become an MLS city if the Vancouver Whitecaps were to relocate, The Athletic reported on Monday.,MLS declined to comment on the report.,Per the report, a special committee of MLS owners met earlier this month to conduct talks on the future of the White...

Suns make clutch shots late to finish off Bulls
Devin Booker scored 30 points, Jalen Green added 25 and Dillon Brooks sank a pair of clutch baskets down the stretch to help the Phoenix Suns past the host Chicago Bulls 120-110 on Sunday.,Phoenix (43-35) held a 13-point lead in the third quarter but saw it whittled down to a single point late in th...

Devin Booker, Suns solve Hornets' mastery in road games
Devin Booker had 30 points and 10 assists, Jalen Green and Collin Gillespie each added 24 points and the host Phoenix Suns ran away from Charlotte in the second half for a 111-99 victory on Sunday to break the Hornets' 10-game road winning streak.,Rookie forward Rasheer Fleming had career-highs with...

Ryan Blaney holds on in Phoenix, ends Tyler Reddick's winning streak
Ryan Blaney overcame two loose wheels after pit service and denied Tyler Reddick of a chance for a NASCAR record-setting fourth straight victory to open a season, winning Sunday's Straight Talk Wireless 500 over Christopher Bell at Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Ariz.,After a track-record-tying 12th c...

Josef Newgarden takes Phoenix after contact derails Alex Palou
Acclaimed 32-time winner Josef Newgarden added No. 33 to his ledger on Saturday, winning the Good Ranchers 250 at Phoenix Raceway by nearly two seconds.,Newgarden, a two-time series champion, started second and passed leader Kyle Kirkwood with seven laps to go before eventually clocking the 1.7937-s...

Joey Logano scores the pole for Cup race at Phoenix
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Team Penske's Joey Logano claimed his first pole position of the 2026 season Saturday afternoon at Phoenix Raceway -- setting a fast lap of 135.537 mph around the one-mile oval that will host Sunday's Straight Talk Wireless 500 (3:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).,The...
