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Brittney Griner remains in custody in Russia, with the country’s state-owned media releasing new images of the WNBA star. News broke over the weekend that Griner, a seven-time WNBA All-Star and two-time Olympic gold medallist, was arrested in February after customs officials allegedly detected hashish oil in her luggage at an airport near Moscow. Amid growing concern for her wellbeing and continued calls for her release, Russian state TV broadcast a photograph of the out athlete in custody holding up a piece of paper. The image, which was released on Tuesday (8 March), was too blurred to be able to make out […]

The National Football League (NFL) has filed to dismiss former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden’s lawsuit regarding the leak of his homophobic, misogynistic and racist emails. In bombshell revelations published last October, The New York Times reported Gruden had used offensive language in numerous emails between 2011 and 2018. In one of them, Gruden called NFL commissioner Roger Goodell a “f****t” and “clueless anti-football p***y”. He also criticised Goodell for supposedly pressuring the St Louis Rams – which drafted openly gay player Michael Sam in 2014 – to hire “queers”. Jon Gruden was working as an ESPN commentator at the time before rejoining the Raiders on a 10-year […]