by admin | Jun 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
State Department officials met Monday with members of the Phoenix Mercury about Brittney Griner’s monthslong detention in Russia and the Biden administration’s efforts to secure her release. The State Department confirmed the meeting, which involved...
by admin | Jun 13, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The coach of the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, Vanessa Nygaard, told reporters after their game on Sunday that the team was expecting to be briefed by the US State Department Monday on the latest efforts to bring team member Brittney Griner home from Russia, where she...
by admin | Jun 10, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
They are three of the greatest players in women’s basketball history. They have each won multiple WNBA championships and Olympic gold medals, helped grow the league and transcended WNBA records. And one of them turns 40 on Saturday. Read More
by admin | Jun 8, 2022 | Representation, SEW
WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert has been working with the U.S. government and the state department in hopes of getting Brittney Griner released from her detainment in Russia. Tuesday marked 110 days since the seven-time All-Star was arrested in Russia after customs...
by admin | May 25, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Cherelle Griner, the wife of WNBA superstar Brittney Griner, who has been detained in a Russian prison for nearly 100 days, spoke on Tuesday in an interview with “Good Morning America.” Griner told “GMA” co-anchor Robin Roberts that the support...
by admin | May 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Two months ago, I wrote a piece about WNBA star Brittney Griner that garnered a lot of attention in a way that ended up making me uncomfortable. The article examined the circumstances of Griner’s arrest at the hands of Russian authorities, who claim to have found...
by admin | May 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The lawyer for Brittney Griner said Friday that the WNBA star’s pretrial detention in Russia has been extended by one month. Alexander Boykov told The Associated Press he believed the relatively short extension of the detention indicated the case would come to...
by admin | May 16, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Diamond DeShields made her first WNBA All-Star game in just her second season in the league. Six months later, she found herself on an operating room table. And the day after that, the ridiculously athletic wing with seemingly unlimited upside was faced with the...
by admin | May 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
In her struggle for freedom from detention in Russia, WNBA star Brittney Griner now has another big name in her corner: former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson. A spokesperson for the Richardson Center confirmed to ABC News that the international hostage...
by admin | May 3, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The U.S. government now considers WNBA star Brittney Griner to be “wrongfully detained” in Russia, according to a Tuesday morning report from ESPN’s T.J. Quinn. Although officials declined to say what led to the reclassification, the decision signals a drastic shift...
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