From Baylor: Ahead of Wednesday’s Phoenix Mercury game against the Dallas Wings, the Baylor women’s basketball team visited with former BU star Brittney Griner and presented her with a commemorative frame featuring the BG42 patch that the Bears wore on their jerseys during the 2022-23 season. Photos courtesy of Baylor Athletics.
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Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner spoke to the media Thursday ahead of her return to play with the three-time WNBA champions. Attendees at the packed press conference in Phoenix included Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and representatives of other politicians, including Congressman Greg Stanton. Griner returned to the U.S. in December from a 10-month nightmare in
It feels so good to be home! The last 10 months have been a battle at every turn. I dug deep to keep my faith and it was the love from so many of you that helped keep me going. From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone for your help. I am
It feels so good to be home! The last 10 months have been a battle at every turn. I dug deep to keep my faith and it was the love from so many of you that helped keep me going. From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone for your help. I am
Photo: NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images Viktor Bout, the terrorist freed in a prisoner exchange for weed-smuggler WNBA player Brittney Griner, said he wished her good luck on the tarmac in Abu Dhabi where they were exchanged. “I wished her luck, she even sort of reached out her hand to me,” Bout said on Saturday
Joe Biden on Brittney Griner’s release: “She’s safe, she’s on a plane, she’s on her way home.” After being detained and then imprisoned in Russia since February, WNBA star Brittney Griner is finally coming home. Following a prisoner exchange with Russia, Griner is heading home to Houston, Texas to reunite with her wife Cherelle, and
8:38 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Well, good morning, folks. And it is a good morning. Moments ago, standing together with her wife, Cherelle, in the Oval Office, I spoke with Brittney Griner. She’s safe. She’s on a plane. She’s on her way home. After months of being unjustly detained in Russia, held under intolerable circumstances,
Entering only her second season as head coach of the LSU Lady Tigers, Kim Mulkey already has flexed the recruiting chops that allowed her to establish the Baylor Lady Bears as a women’s college basketball powerhouse, attracting an impressive collection of players to Baton Rouge. Rapper-hooper Flau’jae Johnson, the 26th-ranked recruit in the class of
Image courtesy of the WNBPA. Friday night, large images of 19 wrongfully detained Americans, including WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist, Brittney Griner, appeared on the sides of buildings in New York City as meetings of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly ended. Griner has been detained in Russia since February after attempting
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Shawn Kemp played most of his N.B.A. career before the league began testing players for marijuana use in 1999. So after playing in the bruising, physical games typical of the N.B.A. in the 1990s, he would smoke.
WASHINGTON — Immediately after a Moscow judge handed down Brittney Griner’s nine-year prison sentence on Thursday, calls grew louder for President Biden to find a way to bring her home. “We call on President Biden and the United States government to redouble their efforts to do whatever is necessary and possible,” the Rev. Al Sharpton
AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Prominent China’s slave labor critic Enes Kanter Freedom gives his take on the Russian court sentencing WNBA player Brittney Griner to nine years in prison for bringing two vape cartridges with cannabis oil into Russia, via Fox News: First of all, you know, she pleaded guilty and the sentence is harsh, and
Here’s what happened in the world of women’s basketball this past week: Brittney Griner receives a sentence of nine years in prison On Thursday, Griner was convicted of drug smuggling and possession and sentenced to nine years in prison in Russia. While her lawyers have confirmed plans to appeal the sentence, many in the basketball
UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Phoenix Mercury Coach Vanessa Nygaard and her coaching staff stood in the empty Mohegan Sun arena on Thursday, puzzled. The Mercury were set to take on the Connecticut Sun at 7 p.m., and her players were supposed to be on the court going through their normal pregame shoot-around, but no one showed
Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko/The Associated Press According to Reuters, a Russian court on Thursday sentenced U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner to nine years in prison after finding her guilty of deliberately bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into Russia despite them being illegal.
Escorted by a masked police officer with a dog, her wrists handcuffed, the American basketball star Brittney Griner appeared in a Russian court on Tuesday for another hearing in a trial that is likely to end with her conviction in the middle of this month, her lawyers said. One of the best players of her
Brittney Griner, the American basketball star detained in Russia on drug charges, told a courtroom Wednesday that she had been tossed into a bewildering legal system with little explanation of what was happening and what she might do to try to defend herself. Ms. Griner described arriving in Russia after an exhausting 13-hour flight —
Joe Biden hand in hand with former KKK member Robert Byrd (Photo: AP) Trevor Reed, a former Marine freed from a Russian prison in April, thinks the Biden administration, which got him home, isn’t doing enough to get the other Americans detained in Russia back. “I can’t say 100% what the White House is or
Wearing a black and gray sweatshirt with the slogan “Black lives for peace” printed on the back, Brittney Griner, the W.N.B.A. star who has been detained in Russia on drug charges, appeared in a court near Moscow on Tuesday as her defense team continued to present evidence that she had not intended to break the
WASHINGTON — Brittney Griner. Austin Tice. The Citgo 6. And now, potentially, three American military veterans who were captured by enemy forces after traveling to Ukraine to fight Russia. They are among nearly 50 Americans who the State Department believes are wrongfully detained by foreign governments. At least a dozen more Americans are being held
One hundred forty-one days. That is how long Brittney Griner has been behind bars in Russia. That is how long she has been stuck in the middle of a high-stakes staredown between the United States and Russia at exactly the wrong time, as President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia continues his horrendous invasion of Ukraine
For the first time in a while, Terri Jackson, the executive director of the W.N.B.A. players’ union, felt hopeful about Brittney Griner. Griner’s wife, Cherelle Griner, had spoken on the phone with President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday morning. That evening, Jackson attended a rally to support Brittney Griner at the Footprint
Photo: cnn.com On Thursday, WNBA star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty to drug charges and now faces up to 10 years in a Russian prison. “I’d like to plead guilty, your honor. But there was no intent. I didn’t want to break the law,” Griner said. The National anthem boycotter was arrested in February after she
More than four months after she was first detained, the W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner is expected to appear in a Russian courtroom on Friday for the start of a trial on drug charges that legal experts said was all but certain to end in a conviction despite the clamor in the United States for her
Russian media outlet TASS reported Tuesday that Brittney Griner’s detention in Russia has been extended 18 days (at least through July 2). On Monday, during their trip to Washington, D.C. to play the Washington Mystics, members of Griner’s Phoenix Mercury were able to meet with State Department officials to learn more about what is being
The Phoenix Mercury players, coaches, staff, and the player’s union, the WNBPA, met with members of the United States Department of State to discuss the status of teammate Brittney Griner’s wrongful detention in Russia. Today marks 166 days that the Mercury center has been detained. Following the meeting, the team met with U.S. Congressman Greg
Her face is on hoodies. Her name is in hashtags. Her “B.G.” and number are on fans’ jerseys and W.N.B.A. courts. As the Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner waits in Russia, detained since Feb. 17 on drug charges, symbols of support for her are all around. They come from people who don’t know her at
The Women’s National Basketball Players Association, the union for the WNBA’s athletes, released a statement on the 100th day of the wrongful detainment of Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner by the Russian government. Since mid-February, she has been detained in Russia after Moscow airport authorities claimed to have found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in
PHOENIX — When will Brittney Griner be set free? That painful question hangs over the Phoenix Mercury, just as it is likely to hang over the coming W.N.B.A. season. Last week, at a home preseason game pitting Phoenix against the Seattle Storm, hip-hop blared and gyrating dance squads revved up the crowd. When the teams
The WNBA will honor Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner this season with her initials and jersey number to be featured on the sideline of all WNBA courts. Griner has been detained in Russia since mid-February after Moscow airport authorities claim to have found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage. The 6-8 center plays