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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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To: roving

According to the Texas birth index, she’s a she.


41 posted on 10/30/2022 6:26:14 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I do not recognize Biden’s authority. (@FeistyFed on TS) 🐝)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The narrow window of a deal for a trade is long gone. Biden and the neocons wanting a war killed all negotiations. She has now been forgotten by the Biden and the State Department regardless of the Lip Service the White House is giving, she just is now worth nothing. Trump probably could get her and ex Marine out as Putin might do it just to totally embarrass the Biden and his administration. But that will never be allowed no matter what, although after the Midterms Trump may try it.


42 posted on 10/30/2022 6:30:16 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Heartbroken? Me? Nah...I’m not. I’m more heartbroken that Ryan Blaney missed the Championship 4 in Phoenix next week...I’m heartbroken over the lousy season Green Bay is having...


43 posted on 10/30/2022 6:32:17 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: Blurb2350

Being sent to a Penile Colony in Siberia is the worst kind of punishment. Pretty much slave labor. The brutal conditions of winter are unreal. Been watching some history of Stalin and the Easter Front War and some stuff on those sent to Siberia. The brutality of what happened to those sent there is unimaginable. Not sure how much improvement there has been there, probably not that much, you can’t change the brutal conditions of confinement and the work demanded outside in the elements.


44 posted on 10/30/2022 6:34:21 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Russian Womans Penal Prison


45 posted on 10/30/2022 6:41:23 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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46 posted on 10/30/2022 6:42:19 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: caww

47 posted on 10/30/2022 6:43:38 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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48 posted on 10/30/2022 6:45:00 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: caww

Will she be sewing WNBA jerseys?


49 posted on 10/30/2022 6:48:00 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To all questioning whether she is male of female, The russkies know for sure and she is in a women’s prison.


50 posted on 10/30/2022 6:49:08 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: dynachrome

‘male OR female’, that is.


51 posted on 10/30/2022 6:49:50 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: dynachrome

Nah - sewing uniforms to help in their war effort I suppose.


52 posted on 10/30/2022 6:49:54 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
The sports world remains heartbroken over the developments with Brittney Griner.

Is the sports world broken up over the people in US jails due to marijuana offenses?
53 posted on 10/30/2022 6:51:11 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: caww
Looks like she'll have the opportunity to learn an honest trade and a second language.

This Griner gal just may make something of herself someday.

54 posted on 10/30/2022 6:52:40 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: dynachrome
To all questioning whether she is male of female, The russkies know for sure and she is in a women’s prison.

Correct. The Russians don't play into the transgender foolishness like we do over here so I'm sure they have her shipped off to the proper prison for her gender.

55 posted on 10/30/2022 6:53:21 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (4,419,117 active user on Truth Social)
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To: dsrtsage

does anybody know what the word oxymoron means ...... I always though that Billie Mays was the perfect definition of oxi-moron


56 posted on 10/30/2022 6:57:32 PM PDT by BRL
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To: Not A Snowbird

Heartbroken.....well, definitely, not in my World.

Bat Guano, right wing for the North Jersey All Stars.


57 posted on 10/30/2022 6:58:33 PM PDT by BatGuano (2020 = Stolen Election. Believe it! Molon Labe.)
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To: BRL

She’ll probably look a lot different in a year - with no access to Testosterone


58 posted on 10/30/2022 7:11:06 PM PDT by atc23 (The Matriarchal Society we embrace has led to masks and mandates and the cult of "safety")
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To: caww

I Siberia?


59 posted on 10/30/2022 7:25:26 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Who has ever heard of a court system that has no special treatment of athletes?


60 posted on 10/30/2022 7:30:45 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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