PHOENIX -- Sonja Petrovic had a career-high 22 points, Brittney Griner scored 19, and the Phoenix Mercury won their third straight, 86-75 over the Connecticut Sun on Wednesday night.Griner added eight rebounds and five blocks, DeWanna Bonner had 18 points and Diana Taurasi scored 11 for the Mercury (7-9).Phoenix, seventh in the AP WNBA power poll, opened the second half with a 15-2 run to take a 56-39 lead. The 11th-ranked Sun (3-13) got no closer than 72-64 on Jonquel Jones 3-pointer with 5:50 left.Jones had a career-high 16 points and nine rebounds. Alex Bentley led the Sun with 20 points, Alyssa Thomas scored 18 and Shekinna Stricklen 11.The Mercury opened the game with a 13-2 run and led the entire way. Connecticut trimmed the deficit to four at halftime after trailing by 15 early in the second quarter.Vapormax Flyknit 3 Canada .C. Lions has come to an end. Banks told TSN on Jan 2 that he had no interest in playing out the option year of his contract with the Lions in 2014, and he again made that clear in a conversation with Lions GM Wally Buono last week. Vapormax Canada . Brett Kulak and Jackson Houck of the Vancouver Giants were each charged with assault causing bodily harm on Aug. 18, according to the B.C. court services. http://www.airvapormaxcanada.com/vapormax-2019-canada.html . But what about the officials? Every sport has officials and they also have stories about hard work and sacrifice but their accomplishments are seldom recognized by anyone outside their inner circle. Air Max 97 Vapormax Canada . -- Los Angeles Lakers guard Jordan Farmar will be out for roughly four weeks after tearing his left hamstring. Vapormax Canada Sale . After Martin Skrtel put the Reds in front from close range at Stamford Bridge after only four minutes, Hazard hit back in the 17th with a superb strike. Etoo gave Jose Mourinhos team a decisive lead from Oscars back pass in the 34th.Prominent anti-doping campaigner Jared Tallent reckons the walks at the Rio Olympics will be the cleanest in decades.Tallent will arrive in Rio as the defending 50km champion, having belatedly been presented with the gold from the London Games a couple of months ago after Russian Sergey Kirdyapkin was disqualified for doping.With the exception of US-based long jumper Darya Klishina, the Russians have been barred from the track and field competition in Rio, a suspension which covers a host of walkers who have medalled in major events.Another prominent walking absentee is Italian Alex Schwazer, the 50km champ from the 2008 Beijing Games, who was banned for a second doping offence shortly after relegating Tallent to second spot at the race walking World Cup in Rome in May.A sore hamstring has prompted Tallent to withdraw from the 20km race in Rio and focus all his attention on his favoured 50km event on August 19, where he expects his most serious challengers to be world record holder Yohann Diniz from France and Slovakias Matej Toth.It is going to be the cleanest Olympics in a long time, probably going back decades because unfortunately the Russians were always suuspected of doping and have been doping and they have been there for a long time, the 31-year-old Tallent said on Friday.ddddddddddddThey have been the main culprits in our sport.It will be a good day for the event, for the athletes ... a lot of the top guys will think they have got a chance for a medal whereas in the past when you had the three Russians there you always thought it was going to be pretty tough to get a medal.Tallent said he was not overly surprised by the findings of the McLaren Report - commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency - which revealed widespread, state-sponsored doping in Russia of athletes in a host of Olympic sports.Having won silver in the 50km and bronze in the 20km eight years ago in Beijing and gold in the 50km at the 2012 London Games, Tallent will become the first Australian track and field athletes to medal in three separate Olympics if he can claim a podium finish in the longer event in Rio.I have won a medal at every major championships since 2010 so I want to keep that ball rolling, he said. ' ' '