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Taurasi finds healing in hoops

By Mechelle Voepel
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, September 28, 2009

PHOENIX -- The first time Diana Taurasi put her hands on a basketball … you figure it had to be like when Schroeder of "Peanuts" fame first touched the keys on his piano. The most pleasant version of true love: the kind that brings you only joy, not heartache. Sure, Taurasi has lost a few painful "big" games in her basketball career, but those didn't break her heart by any means. She gets mad sometimes while playing the sport, but she's never angry at basketball. Those few times in her a ...

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