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WNBA Facing Pressure To 'Investigate' Brittney Griner
The WNBA is facing growing pressure to "investigate" Brittney Griner.The veteran WNBA star, who left the Phoenix Mercury for the Atlanta Dream this offseason, has been trending for her apparent ...
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The Response to Brittney Griner’s Capture Is an Indictment of the Right and the “Left”
(Christian Peterson / Getty Images) I am deeply disturbed by the response to my recent column about what we know about the abhorrent prison conditions that Brittney Griner is enduring in a labor ...
Brittney Griner Calls Out 'Fake' Angel Reese Quote About Beating Allen Iverson
Chicago Sky superstar Angel Reese and NBA icon Allen Iverson have been exchanging kind words about each other when speaking on interviews over the past week or ...
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Brittney Griner says she's guilty in Russian court and vape cartridges were in her luggage unintentionally
but still wouldn’t say what the president wrote in his response letter. Calls to free Brittney Griner escalated following the release of U.S. Marine veteran Trevor Reed last month, who was freed ...
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Russian court rejects Brittney Griner’s appeal of 9-year sentence
A Russian court on Tuesday rejected Brittney ... response to Tuesday’s verdict, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the US will continue to engage with Russia to bring ...
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Brittney Griner sentenced to 9 years in Russian prison after conviction on drug charges
U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner ... has faced to get Griner released. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday that Russia has made a "bad faith" response to the U.S ...
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WNBA's Brittney Griner deserves our support as she sits in a Russian jail cell
WNBA superstar Brittney Griner is imprisoned in Russia ... What explains the surprisingly muted – and in some cases negative – response to Griner’s plight? In short, Americans deem some ...
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Brittney Griner found guilty in Russian drug trial, sentenced to 9 years in prison
Griner has been detained in Russia on drug charges since Feb. 17. WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia for over five months, was found guilty on drug charges in a Moscow-area ...
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Brittney Griner's Russia detention 'something that I’m personally focused on,' Blinken says
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated Wednesday that returning Brittney Griner home from a Russian prison was among his top priorities. Griner has been held in Russia since February.
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Kim Mulkey's lack of compassion for Brittney Griner shouldn't surprise you because she's already shown us exactly who she is
Brittney Griner’s wrongful detainment in Russia ... players wrongfully detained in a foreign country, and her only response is still hostility. I’m sure her new recruits at LSU are going ...
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Brittney Griner’s remarkable joyfulness: ‘I believe in me, I believe in what I can do’
Even during their best moments, the reminders of Brittney Griner’s detention loomed over the Mercury. On Thursday, at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, the lightness of Griner’s presence could ...