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Russia extends Brittney Griner’s holding period by two months

One of our country’s elite basketball players remains in a Russian prison, a country that’s showed no signs of deescalating its meaningless war against Ukraine and indirectly trying to provoke other countries into joining the conflict. Read more…

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Russia extends Brittney Griner’s detention by two months

One of our country’s elite basketball players remains in a Russian prison, a country that’s showed no signs of deescalating its meaningless war against Ukraine and indirectly trying to provoke other countries into joining the conflict. Read more…

Entertainment

WNBA Star Brittney Griner Arrested In Russia On Drug Charges After Customs Found Vape Cartridges In Her Luggage

WNBA superstar Brittney Griner has been arrested and detained in Russia on drug charges. According to The New York Times, the Russian Federal Customs Service revealed on Saturday that they arrested the 31-year-old basketball player at the Sheremetyevo airport near Moscow after officials discovered vape cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage. While the customs […]

Sport

Who are Tom Brady’s peers in other sports?

There’s no doubt Tom Brady won championships at a rate we’ve never seen before in the NFL, with no fellow football players lifting as many titles as the longtime Patriot and most-recent Buccaneer did. He alone holds the record for most Super Bowls won by an individual player. Read more…

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The WNBA unveils new playoff format

The WNBA announced a new playoff format today that will increase the number of potential games in the tournament and completely get rid of single-elimination games. It will remain an eight-team playoff, with teams seeded based on overall standings over a 36-game regular season, but the first- and second-ranked teams… Read more…

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The WNBA just finished a legendary season — now they have to address the drama the Atlanta Dream and Phoenix Mercury created

What if I told you that a hometown kid would come home and help deliver a championship to their city — for a franchise that has never won a championship — against the particular very same team that prevented that hometown team from winning a title seven years ago? Read more…

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A .500 regular season team is on the doorstep of a title

The Chicago Sky went 16-16 during the regular season, including a 6-10 record at home. It’s also been a month, as of Sunday, since they lost a game in Chicago, and it just so happens that Sunday is the Sky’s next home game, with a chance to win the WNBA title after walloping the Phoenix […]

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Sue Bird shouldn’t retire, but WNBA would survive — and thrive — after she’s gone

The Phoenix Mercury had just beaten Seattle 85-80 OT in the WNBA playoffs late Sunday afternoon when ESPN’s Holly Rowe brought Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi together on the court for the post-game interview. These two have been teammates and rivals for more than 20 years, and Bird quipped to Rowe that Taurasi had thought… […]

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Brittney Griner dunked again and it was NBD

Nineteen years ago, Lisa Leslie made history at the Staples Center in Los Angeles when she became the first woman to dunk in a WNBA game. It was a moment. Back then, we weren’t used to seeing stuff like that. Read more…