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Taurasi adds title, Finals MVP honor

By Mechelle Voepel
Special to ESPN.com

Friday, October 9, 2009

PHOENIX -- Diana Taurasi appears in a video that plays on the scoreboard at US Airways Arena before Mercury games, and in it she's emitting what you might call a primal scream. Eyes closed, head back, she belts it out. It might not be the vocal-cord-buster that Janis Joplin did near the end of "Piece of My Heart." But there's still a lot of emotion in this yell, choreographed as it is. The screams suggest that the competitive will we see so vividly from Taurasi on the outside burns even hotter ...

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