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Sports World Heartbroken Over Brittney Griner's Decision
The Spun ^ | Oct 30, 2022 | Andrew Holleran

Posted on 10/30/2022 5:28:39 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

The sports world remains heartbroken over the developments with Brittney Griner.

This week, the WNBA star's appeal was rejected by a Russian court, meaning she's set to serve her entire nine-year prison sentence, barring a trade with the United States.

Life in a full-time Russian prison sounds pretty rough.

"Brittney Griner will enter a system of isolation, grueling labor and psychological torment when she is transferred to a penal colony, the successor to the infamous Russian gulag, to fulfill a nine-year sentence, former prisoners and advocates say," NBC News reported this week.

Earlier in her prison sentence, Griner was reportedly offered a basketball, so she could play on the prison's hoop.

Heartbreakingly, she rejected the offer, deciding it was too tough to play right now.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Society; Sports; Travel
KEYWORDS: brittney; brittneygriner; griner; russia; wnba
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Reminds of the Army response of where to find sympathy here?

In the dictionary, right between sh!t and syphilis.

1 posted on 10/30/2022 5:28:39 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

It was her decision?


2 posted on 10/30/2022 5:29:40 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
The Sports World?
3 posted on 10/30/2022 5:29:50 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Maybe she can get a job with the Wagner Group.
Supposedly she’s a pretty good shot...


4 posted on 10/30/2022 5:31:19 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“In the dictionary, right between sh!t and syphilis.”

That’s where my Dad always told me that I could find it. :)


5 posted on 10/30/2022 5:32:10 PM PDT by quikstrike98
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

All of those sympathetic fans should vote for Donald Trump in 2024 if they want her to have a hope of coming home before 9 years are up.
Just saying.


6 posted on 10/30/2022 5:32:55 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: ifinnegan

Is she even a her?


7 posted on 10/30/2022 5:33:21 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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Sometimes I sit and wonder where my little life went wrong
These old jailhouse blues have got me singing this old song
My life is a disaster, Lord and I feel so ashamed
In here where they call by a number, not a name ♪


8 posted on 10/30/2022 5:33:44 PM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Somehow I do not think I have gotten the full story.

Pravda could care less about reporting on this, and the MSN narrative has changed so much I have no idea what to think, except possibly.

‘Don’t smuggle banned drugs into foreign countries’


9 posted on 10/30/2022 5:34:28 PM PDT by algore
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People question that a lot, but she grew up playing in Texas in the 90s and 00s and I don’t think they would have bought into the whole trans deal there and then.


10 posted on 10/30/2022 5:35:47 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Odd that remark. I was working with two Army vets just before my entry into the USN. They served in WWII. One across France and one across Italy. They told me that and not to worry about my girlfriend while I was gone, that I’d find her just like I left her when I got back. They were right on both counts.


11 posted on 10/30/2022 5:35:56 PM PDT by Equine1952
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I must not be in the sports world.


12 posted on 10/30/2022 5:36:13 PM PDT by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“ Griner was reportedly offered a basketball, so she could play on the prison’s hoop.”

She needs an American flag to trash before she can play ball.


13 posted on 10/30/2022 5:38:55 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

We should outsource our penal system to the Russians. The recidivism rate is probably very low.


14 posted on 10/30/2022 5:38:55 PM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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I know I'm heartbroken. The WNBA is just not the same without seeing pretty Brittney prancing up and down that court. Now when I get the urge to see a heavily tattooed 6'9" beauty queen, I need to Google photos of LeBron James.

Please come back Brittney, this is not good for my health. I just know it isn't.


15 posted on 10/30/2022 5:39:24 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (4,419,117 active user on Truth Social)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

She despises our country. She should be happy to be free of the oppression and racism she endured when she lived here. She has been liberated. /s


16 posted on 10/30/2022 5:40:16 PM PDT by Spok (Homelessness will not be solved by incentivizing it; it must be made harder, not easier.)
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To: quikstrike98

And it looks to be spot on with this forum, haven’t seen any yet for her.


17 posted on 10/30/2022 5:41:19 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

BS. This America-hating negro thought she could do what she wants because that ‘ghetto bitch’ mentality causes decent people to bend in the USA. Take your medicine, ho.


18 posted on 10/30/2022 5:43:26 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Equine1952

Jody must’ve lost her address. Jody made many a tough grunt cry.


19 posted on 10/30/2022 5:46:09 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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WNBA Star.

on an totally unrelated topic, does anybody know what the word oxymoron means?


20 posted on 10/30/2022 5:46:40 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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