WNBA star Brittney Griner convicted in Russia, sentenced to nine years in prison from Larry Brown Sports, with Steve DelVecchio, and from www.yardbarker.com The United States government is in the process of working on a deal to bring Brittney Griner home, but the WNBA star has been sentenced in the meantime. Griner was convicted on Thursday and sentenced to nine years in prison. Prosecutors were seeking a 9.5-year prison sentence on the drug charges. As ESPN’s TJ Quinn notes, the sentence is essentially a formality. Griner will only be detained for as long as it takes the U.S. to reach…
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Is it too soon to be talking about bringing all of this back into focus, and it makes it looks like they’re pushing and rushing the issue, to bring all of the sports back….Maybe this is all too soon, but league owners are looking for a plan…. from the Action Network at CLICK HERE, and this is a look at how soon most of the professional sports will be returning, with some amateur events also listed….. Latest News: 2020 Sports Calendar **********Tuesday, April 7: ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported that MLB is working on a plan that could have the season…
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**********We have lost a former high school basketball player from Greensboro, N.C. Mekia Valentine, gone at just age 32….********** She played high school basketball at the Greensboro Day School and at Dudley High School…At Dudley high school she worked the post with another tall Dudley Panther player, Sierra Little… Valentine and Little used to love to dress like tall fashion models and they had to take their Dudley Panther basketball very seriously, when Dudley coach Kris Britton would get after them in practice and challenge them to work harder… I was at a few practices and Coach Britton would take…