WNBA: Taurasi Lead Phoenix Mercury at Red-Hot Los Angeles Sparks

Rachel Margolis Siegal July 15, 2013

The hottest team in the WNBA — the Los Angeles Sparks, led by Candace Parker — will host Diana Taurasi and the Phoenix Mercury on Thursday, July 18, at 10 p.m. on ESPN2. The winner of five straight games, the Sparks are in second place in the West Conference standings with a 10-4 overall mark, with Los Angeles facing the Atlanta Dream, which is in first place in the East Conference, on Wednesday night. The Mercury are sitting 3.5 games behind first place, currently third in the standings with an 8-7 overall record.

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Rachel Margolis Siegal

A part of the Internal Communications team at ESPN, I began with the network in 2010 as part of the College Sports PR team. Always an avid sports fan and not an athlete – I grew up a huge fan of the Hartford Whalers, while also watching my brother compete at different levels. I became the manager of several high school sports teams and continued that hobby into college. While at Quinnipiac, I worked in the Sports Information Department, which led me to a summer internship at the New Haven Ravens, a AA baseball team, and an eventual job with the Athletic Communications Department at the University of Connecticut. After my five-year stint at Connecticut, I spent six years as Director of Communications at the BIG EAST Conference in Providence, R.I. before joining ESPN.