Dave B.
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PostPosted: Post subject: Dianna Taurasi (article from espn online) Reply with quote
Here is a good article about Dianna Taurasi:
http://espn.go.com/magazine/vol5no24taurasi.html
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By Eric Adelson
ESPN The Magazine
She scarfs down an Italian hoagie in the campus food court, leans back, and starts talking about her body. She splays her hands in front of her face. They are enormous — fingers long and swollen, palms deep and calloused. She could palm a basketball, a men’s basketball, when she was 13. She lifts her arms out to the side. They rise like a pterodactyl’s wings — an inbounder’s nightmare. The cuffs on her XL sweatshirt do not even reach her wrists. Her legs, carefully folded under a wooden table, stretch three full feet. They finally disappear into size-13 shoes.
And yet she shows no trace of awkwardness; she seems perfectly comfortable in her six-foot frame. The hands, the arms, the legs, the feet — together they give Diana Taurasi the ability to play anywhere on the court. Her first step seems like two. Her hands grip the ball like clamps. Her arms deliver NBA range. Her legs make her almost immovable in the paint. “I am,” UConn’s junior guard says with a grin, “a specimen.”
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Victor
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She has big ugly hands… who cares if she can palm.
