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The BulleTin • Friday, July 8, 2022 B5 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022 TODAY TONIGHT HIGH 82° LOW 53° Pleasant with some sun SUNDAY SATURDAY Mostly sunny and beautiful ALMANAC TEMPERATURE High Low Normal Record 82° 99° in 2017 47° 29° in 1902 PRECIPITATION 24-hour total 0.02" Record 0.35" in 1975 Month to date (normal) 0.02" (0.12") Year to date (normal) 2.34" (5.66") Barometric pressure at 4 p.m. 30.04" SUN, MOON AND PLANETS Rise/Set Today Saturday Sun 5:30am/8:50pm 5:31am/8:50pm Moon 3:23pm/1:18am 4:41pm/1:44am Mercury 4:45am/8:14pm 4:50am/8:20pm Venus 3:35am/6:46pm 3:35am/6:47pm Mars 1:17am/2:47pm 1:15am/2:47pm Jupiter 12:20am/12:42pm 12:16am/12:38pm Saturn 10:43pm/8:53am 10:39pm/8:49am Uranus 1:50am/4:14pm 1:46am/4:10pm Full Last New First UV INDEX TODAY 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 5 9 9 3 The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low, 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme. POLLEN COUNT Source: Oregon Allergy Associates Near-record temperatures with lots of sun Newport Weeds Low Albany 80/55 65/54 WEST: Delightful today; times of clouds and sun; however, sunnier in the south. Mainly clear tonight. Corvallis Yachats 66/54 79/55 High: 96° at Ontario Low: 36° at Lakeview As of 7 a.m. Thursday Reservoir Acre feet Capacity Crane Prairie 48246 87% Wickiup 56722 28% Crescent Lake 18200 21% Ochoco Reservoir 10624 24% Prineville 39653 27% River fl ow Station Cu.ft./sec. Deschutes R. below Crane Prairie 136 Deschutes R. below Wickiup 1270 Deschutes R. below Bend 131 Deschutes R. at Benham Falls 1560 Little Deschutes near La Pine 94 Crescent Ck. below Crescent Lake 18 Crooked R. above Prineville Res. 14 Crooked R. below Prineville Res. 187 Crooked R. near Terrebonne 46 Ochoco Ck. below Ochoco Res. 13 Prineville Sisters 82/53 Baker City 79/49 82/50 John Day 87/52 85/54 Paulina Brothers 84/50 81/55 81/50 Sunriver 82/53 80/51 Hampton Cottage La Pine Oakridge Grove 80/52 84/51 Coos Bay Burns 79/56 81/57 Fort Rock 68/54 Riley 88/50 Crescent 83/50 88/50 79/52 Bandon Roseburg Christmas Valley Beaver Frenchglen Silver 66/55 83/57 84/48 Marsh Lake 90/52 Port Orford 79/46 84/47 Grants Paisley 65/55 Pass Chiloquin 86/48 86/58 Medford 81/49 Gold Beach 88/60 63/54 Klamath Fields Ashland Lakeview Falls Brookings 93/55 86/59 83/48 64/53 84/46 Unity 85/50 Ontario 97/67 Bend Thursday Today Saturday Thursday Today Saturday City Hi/Lo/Prec. 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Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W City Portland Astoria 69/59/0.22 69/55/pc 69/57/pc La Grande 81/61/0.00 82/56/s 82/54/pc Prineville La Pine 75/49/0.00 80/52/pc 81/51/s Baker City 81/55/0.00 82/50/s 83/50/pc Redmond Medford 84/60/0.00 88/60/s 88/59/s Brookings 62/55/Tr 64/53/pc 65/54/pc Roseburg Newport 63/55/0.03 65/54/pc 65/54/pc Burns 87/46/0.00 88/50/s 88/50/s Salem North Bend 65/57/0.05 67/56/pc 65/53/s Eugene 78/58/0.00 81/55/pc 81/55/pc Sisters Ontario 96/68/0.00 97/67/s 97/66/s Klamath Falls 81/41/0.00 83/48/s 82/47/s The Dalles Pendleton 85/66/Tr 86/60/pc 87/59/s Lakeview 81/36/0.00 84/46/s 85/48/s Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace Vale 98/66 Juntura 94/56 Nyssa 98/66 Jordan Valley 91/55 Burns Junction 94/56 Rome 96/57 McDermitt 92/54 Thursday Hi/Lo/Prec. 80/61/Tr 81/57/0.01 83/60/0.00 79/60/0.00 80/62/0.00 75/52/0.03 85/64/Tr Today Hi/Lo/W 80/59/pc 84/53/pc 84/52/pc 83/57/pc 81/58/pc 82/53/pc 86/61/s Saturday Hi/Lo/W 81/59/pc 85/51/s 84/52/s 84/56/s 81/56/pc 83/52/s 87/62/s 90s 100s 110s NATIONAL WEATHER 541-683-1577 WATER REPORT 86/54 Mitchell 83/52 86/54 Camp Sherman Redmond 81/53 84/52 Eugene Florence 67/54 OREGON EXTREMES THURSDAY Madras 85/54 -10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s NATIONAL EXTREMES THURSDAY (for the Plenty of sunshine Not available Not available Not available Not available Not available T-storms Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Warm Front Stationary Front Cold Front Source: USDA Forest Service NATIONAL Thursday City Hi/Lo/Prec. Abilene 105/80/0.00 Akron 85/63/0.00 Albany 85/58/0.00 Albuquerque 94/66/0.00 Anchorage 64/56/0.16 Atlanta 94/76/0.01 Atlantic City 73/69/0.65 Austin 101/73/0.00 Baltimore 82/72/2.82 Billings 87/58/0.11 Birmingham 98/77/0.05 Bismarck 81/67/0.33 Boise 95/65/0.00 Boston 79/66/0.00 Bridgeport, CT 76/68/0.00 Buffalo 84/58/0.00 Burlington, VT 82/55/0.00 Caribou, ME 73/47/0.00 Charleston, SC 95/79/0.00 Charlotte 99/72/0.05 Chattanooga 95/76/0.06 Cheyenne 84/54/0.06 Chicago 86/68/0.00 Cincinnati 87/73/0.01 Cleveland 80/65/0.00 Colorado Springs 89/58/0.08 Columbia, MO 88/76/0.00 Columbia, SC 96/75/1.06 Columbus, GA 98/77/0.00 Columbus, OH 86/67/0.03 Concord, NH 83/51/0.00 Corpus Christi 94/74/0.00 Dallas 103/82/0.00 Dayton 85/67/0.03 Denver 91/59/0.33 Des Moines 81/72/0.07 Detroit 85/60/0.00 Duluth 84/52/0.04 El Paso 99/78/0.03 Fairbanks 80/60/0.00 Fargo 82/67/0.00 Flagstaff 81/44/0.00 Grand Rapids 83/60/0.00 Green Bay 86/61/0.00 Greensboro 93/72/Tr Harrisburg 84/72/0.39 Hartford, CT 85/59/0.00 Helena 91/58/0.09 Honolulu 86/72/0.03 Houston 98/76/0.04 Huntsville 98/77/Tr Indianapolis 88/74/0.07 Jackson, MS 93/74/0.00 Jacksonville 97/76/0.28 Today Hi/Lo/W 105/78/s 79/64/c 84/62/pc 95/69/c 69/58/c 92/76/t 80/69/t 102/75/s 87/72/t 91/63/pc 94/78/t 86/68/t 95/63/s 83/68/t 81/70/t 81/61/pc 82/57/pc 73/48/sh 88/77/t 92/75/t 96/77/t 87/59/s 76/65/t 80/69/t 78/65/c 85/60/pc 91/70/t 91/75/t 94/77/t 77/65/t 85/59/pc 96/75/s 105/83/s 77/65/t 92/65/pc 84/66/t 78/61/c 71/50/pc 96/75/t 81/59/pc 84/65/t 86/53/s 78/58/pc 76/56/pc 88/73/t 89/71/t 85/67/t 86/59/c 85/75/s 100/79/s 97/77/t 81/67/t 95/77/t 92/75/t Amsterdam Athens Auckland Baghdad Bangkok Beijing Beirut Berlin Bogota Budapest Buenos Aires Cabo San Lucas Cairo Calgary Cancun Dublin Edinburgh Geneva Harare Hong Kong Istanbul Jerusalem Johannesburg Lima Lisbon London Madrid Manila 71/58/pc 90/71/t 64/56/r 110/84/s 92/81/t 92/75/pc 85/74/s 70/55/pc 64/50/r 79/59/pc 55/51/t 93/78/s 97/75/c 77/52/pc 90/76/pc 71/55/pc 67/51/c 80/58/s 69/44/s 89/81/t 84/72/s 88/63/s 66/42/s 64/59/pc 96/72/s 80/58/s 97/68/s 89/80/t 64/61/1.15 95/81/0.00 57/50/0.82 113/90/0.00 93/82/0.23 94/73/0.00 88/74/0.00 69/56/0.59 66/45/0.00 81/54/0.01 57/49/0.08 95/75/0.00 95/75/0.00 75/54/0.25 90/75/0.00 72/55/0.00 73/54/0.00 81/57/0.00 68/47/0.00 88/81/0.19 86/72/0.00 86/63/0.00 67/42/0.00 64/58/0.00 97/70/0.00 75/63/0.00 91/63/0.00 84/77/0.25 COLLEGE SPORTS Griner 1 year of NIL: How much have athletes made? Continued from B3 BY ERICA HUNZINGER associated Press After the first year of col- lege sports’ name, image and likeness era, football and men’s basketball still claim the throne for the number of deals and average compen- sation, and social media re- mains the most popular way to get that NIL money. The total amount spent was about $917 million, NIL plat- form Opendorse estimated. An average football deal comes out to nearly $3,400 on two platforms. And while softball and women’s basket- ball generally landed in the top five overall, when you subtract football, women’s sports are getting more deals than men’s sports, Opendorse said. Female gymnasts make big bucks, too: about $7,000 on average per deal, according to NIL platform INFLCR. A full accounting of the first year of NIL, from July 1, 2021, to June 30 is hard to come by. The majority of schools don’t make public the number of deals and amounts their athletes have received. There also is no central framework for how and when deals should be reported. “You have all of these dif- ferent stakeholders involved in this ecosystem and a lack of consistency, not just in platform where information is being reported, but in re- quirements relative to what information is necessary,” said Andrew Donovan, the execu- tive vice president of collegiate partnerships at Altius Sports. So it’s up to major NIL tech platforms — some of which facilitate deals and disclo- sures, and others disclosures only — to fill in the gaps. Sort of. “I know that what’s being reported is not a full picture,” said Donovan, whose organi- zation works with 30 schools on education and strategic guidance and talks with do- nors, boosters, corporate part- ners and others. “… Athletes are regularly acknowledging to us that they’re not disclos- ing. Schools are regularly communicating the struggles reed hoffmann/aP file Kansas State’s Nijel Pack (24) shoots next to West Virginia’s Isaiah Cottrell during a game in Manhattan, Kansas, last season. that they’re having getting athletes to disclose. … It’s very clear that this is not a full, complete picture of what’s go- ing on in the NIL space.” What lies ahead for Year 2, beyond maybe new laws or group licensing? Opendorse thinks it’s the potential of NIL spending topping more than $1 billion. An estimated $607.4 mil- lion could go to Power Five schools, with an average an- nual compensation $16,074 per athlete, Opendorse said. Already, about three-fourths of the known or forming col- lectives, which are third-party NIL kingmakers made up of school donors and boosters, are connected to Power Five schools. Athletes’ deals with brands will likely rise, too. Opendorse projects that brand deals will encompass 64% of all NIL compensation in Year 2 and bring in about $730.4 million. Donovan, a former presi- dent of the National Associa- tion for Athletics Compliance, also believes there will be more importance placed on helping athletes understand tax implications of NIL deals: “There’s several schools across the country that are doing a good job there, but that needs to be built out as we see these large financial figures.” Athletes make how much? It’s a broad range. INFLCR’s overall average NIL transac- tion value is $1,815 through Increasing cloudiness Saturday Hi/Lo/W 104/78/s 83/57/s 80/53/s 92/69/pc 70/58/c 89/74/t 74/67/r 104/76/s 76/66/r 89/63/t 94/73/t 92/70/t 95/62/s 75/60/s 79/62/pc 74/56/pc 73/53/pc 69/49/pc 88/75/t 91/72/t 91/73/t 94/65/s 78/62/s 81/62/pc 79/59/s 92/64/pc 85/66/s 90/74/t 92/75/t 82/59/s 79/48/s 96/76/s 104/80/s 83/57/s 100/69/s 82/65/pc 80/56/s 73/58/pc 98/77/pc 82/58/pc 86/69/t 86/54/pc 81/52/s 78/55/s 87/68/t 82/62/r 82/56/s 87/59/t 85/76/sh 100/80/s 93/73/t 81/61/pc 95/74/pc 89/74/t City Juneau Kansas City Lansing Las Vegas Lexington Lincoln Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Madison, WI Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York City Newark, NJ Norfolk, VA Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Palm Springs Peoria Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, ME Providence Raleigh Rapid City Reno Richmond Rochester, NY Sacramento St. Louis Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco San Jose Santa Fe Savannah Seattle Sioux Falls Spokane Springfi eld, MO Tampa Tucson Tulsa Washington, DC Wichita Yakima Yuma Thursday Hi/Lo/Prec. 63/56/0.06 89/72/0.02 86/59/0.00 104/81/0.00 93/72/0.13 84/72/0.02 100/76/0.00 82/62/0.00 92/77/Tr 85/63/0.04 101/81/0.00 91/79/0.04 81/64/0.00 87/71/0.03 95/77/1.24 93/76/0.00 84/72/0.00 84/77/0.00 89/77/0.00 104/73/0.00 86/72/0.53 97/75/0.00 107/79/0.00 80/72/0.26 84/70/1.19 107/84/0.00 85/67/0.00 76/54/0.00 80/61/0.00 102/75/0.30 85/63/Tr 92/58/0.00 89/73/Tr 79/54/0.00 88/57/0.00 91/76/0.16 99/75/0.00 100/78/0.00 71/66/0.00 70/57/0.00 78/61/0.00 89/58/0.00 93/76/0.55 77/59/0.04 84/72/0.03 77/60/0.00 99/75/0.00 93/80/0.25 104/73/0.00 104/82/0.00 82/73/0.03 96/77/Tr 82/55/0.12 106/78/0.00 Today Saturday Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W 60/51/c 63/51/c 88/70/t 87/68/pc 78/58/pc 79/52/s 107/83/s 109/83/s 88/71/t 82/64/c 86/67/t 89/67/pc 102/80/s 98/73/t 84/61/pc 84/63/s 91/74/t 84/66/c 77/56/pc 80/56/s 102/81/s 95/76/t 91/79/t 91/78/t 71/63/pc 76/60/s 83/66/t 85/68/s 98/76/t 87/72/t 91/79/t 92/79/sh 83/71/t 76/66/sh 87/73/t 79/67/sh 84/75/t 85/73/t 102/75/s 99/71/s 85/68/t 86/68/pc 94/76/pc 95/77/t 110/80/s 113/83/s 82/65/t 82/58/s 88/72/t 78/68/r 111/88/s 111/91/c 80/64/c 80/59/pc 80/60/t 78/54/s 83/68/t 79/60/s 90/75/t 90/70/t 89/65/pc 99/69/s 91/58/s 91/56/s 88/74/t 82/68/t 80/61/pc 73/52/pc 93/61/s 91/57/s 92/71/t 84/67/pc 102/77/s 104/77/pc 102/78/s 102/78/s 73/63/pc 75/65/pc 73/59/pc 70/57/pc 81/60/pc 78/58/s 91/61/c 87/61/c 90/76/t 90/74/t 75/56/pc 75/56/pc 85/68/t 88/72/pc 81/57/s 83/58/s 95/73/t 89/67/pc 93/81/pc 93/81/t 106/80/s 104/81/pc 102/78/s 97/74/s 87/74/t 78/69/r 93/72/pc 93/70/pc 86/54/s 87/55/s 109/79/s 113/81/s 103/83/0.00 75/57/0.19 77/57/0.00 88/68/0.06 72/52/0.00 88/77/0.02 100/89/0.00 93/75/0.06 70/52/0.02 79/52/0.00 73/61/0.00 82/67/0.00 86/69/0.00 59/34/0.00 79/59/0.00 86/70/0.00 86/77/0.13 97/81/0.16 90/81/0.26 64/52/0.40 66/58/0.01 93/80/0.07 89/71/0.00 84/75/0.04 77/59/0.00 73/59/0.40 72/55/0.08 70/55/0.00 106/80/pc 75/57/pc 78/55/s 76/64/c 69/55/c 89/79/pc 100/86/s 88/77/t 70/54/pc 77/51/pc 80/60/s 81/67/s 91/66/s 62/36/c 77/55/pc 79/68/pc 82/74/c 97/83/c 89/80/t 67/56/pc 61/48/s 96/81/c 87/71/s 87/76/pc 78/58/c 70/57/pc 71/57/sh 71/53/r INTERNATIONAL 48 contiguous states) National high: 109° at Ocotillo Wells, CA National low: 23° at Bodie State Park, CA Precipitation: 4.67" at Augusta, GA FIRE INDEX Bend Redmond/Madras Sisters Prineville La Pine/Gilchrist 88° 55° TRAVEL WEATHER EAST: Pleasant today Astoria with clouds and sun, 69/55 Umatilla Seaside but sunnier in the Hood 92/60 69/55 south. Partly cloudy River Rufus Hermiston tonight. Sunshine Cannon Beach 81/59 91/61 86/60 Arlington Hillsboro Portland Meacham Lostine 69/55 tomorrow. 88/61 78/54 80/59 79/50 Wasco 81/54 Enterprise Pendleton The Dalles CENTRAL: Pleasant Tillamook 79/53 82/59 86/60 Sandy 86/61 McMinnville 73/54 today with times of Joseph Heppner La Grande 77/58 Maupin Government 80/56 clouds and sun, except 82/56 81/54 Camp 83/57 Condon 84/57 Union Lincoln City sunnier in the south. 79/55 69/52 83/56 Salem 68/55 Spray Mainly clear tonight. Granite Warm Springs 81/58 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI Trees Moderate Very warm with plenty of sunshine THURSDAY 90° 57° 97° 60° Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Jul 13 Jul 20 Jul 28 Aug 5 Tonight's sky: Second star of the handle of the Big Dipper is the double star of Mizar and Alcor. Grasses High 92° 61° Sunny and pleasant WEDNESDAY TUESDAY OREGON WEATHER Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. Thu. Thursday 81° 59° 86° 55° 82° 51° Mainly clear MONDAY June 30. Athliance, another disclosure platform, has an average value of $1,524.58. Though the true picture may lie in INFLCR’s median NIL transaction value of $53. The Opendorse platform said average annual compen- sation for an athlete in NCAA Divisions I-III combined is $3,438 (through May 31). By division, DI athletes saw an average of $3,711, $204 in DII and $309 in DIII. Football NIL deals tend to be hefty, with an average of $3,390.95 on Athliance and $3,396 on INFLCR. Open- dorse broke down average compensation per football position, ranging from $403 for a specialist, $758 for the defensive line and $2,128 for quarterback. Women’s sports overall re- ceived $1,084 on average for an NIL deal, per INFLCR, with women’s gymnastics soaring to a $7,054 average. Some of the average trans- action figures for nonreve- nue sports through May 31 on INFLCR were surprising: $8,967 for swimming and diving, $6,087 for rifle and $4,813 for men’s golf — all higher than football and in the platform’s top five. Ath- liance cited an average of $1,850 for hockey, $1,400 for waterskiing and $1,026.67 for indoor track and field. Men’s vs. women’s As of June 20, men’s sports received 62.7% of total com- “… Athletes are regularly acknowledging to us that they’re not disclosing. Schools are regularly communicating the struggles that they’re having getting athletes to disclose. … It’s very clear that this is not a full, complete picture of what’s going on in the NIL space.” — Andrew Donovan, executive vice president of collegiate partnerships at Altius Sports pensation in the NCAA and NAIA combined, compared with 37.3% for women’s sports, Opendorse said. Re- move football and women flip it to 52.8% vs. 47.2% for men. The difference in Division III was stark through May 31: 82.9% men vs. 17.1% women. Football (49.9%) and men’s basketball (17%) dominated total NIL compensation by sport in Opendorse’s plat- form through June 20, with women’s basketball (15.7%), women’s volleyball (2.3%) and softball (2.1%) rounding out the top five. Football also took the top spot in INFLCR’s number of NIL transactions through May 31 with 23.7%, followed by men’s basketball (22.3%), softball (8.2%), base- ball (6%) and women’s basket- ball (4.7%). When it comes to total NIL activities, Opendorse says football (29.3%) is the leader, then baseball (8%), men’s bas- ketball (7.6%), women’s track and field (5.6%) and women’s volleyball (5.5%). Donor money also favors men’s sports — a whopping 93% of it, Opendorse said. The average monthly com- pensation from donors at the DI level is $1,012. Meanwhile, 91% of all women’s NIL activities are brand-related on Opendorse’s platform, but 62% of all brand compensation went to men’s sports. 69/55/pc 83/72/t 62/53/s 113/86/s 90/80/t 91/72/pc 85/76/s 69/53/sh 65/48/c 80/60/pc 64/60/sh 90/77/pc 98/77/s 74/52/pc 90/76/pc 69/57/pc 70/55/pc 81/60/s 67/45/s 89/81/pc 84/70/pc 87/64/s 63/42/s 65/59/pc 95/72/s 77/57/s 101/71/s 91/79/t Griner was escorted to the courtroom in handcuffs and clad in a bright red T-shirt with the name “Crenshaw” and sweat pants. She also held a photo of her wife, Cherelle. Elizabeth Rood, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, told re- porters after the hearing that she spoke to Griner in the courtroom and shared with her a letter from President Joe Biden that she read. “She’s eating well, she’s able to read books and under the circumstances she’s doing well,” Rood said of Griner. “I would like again to em- phasize the commitment of the U.S. government at the very highest level to bring home safely Ms. Griner and all U.S. citizens wrongfully de- tained as well as the commit- ment of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to care for and pro- tect the interests of all U.S. citi- zens detained or imprisoned in Russia,” Rood said. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov bris- tled at the U.S. description of Griner as “wrongfully de- tained” and warned that “at- tempts by the American side to make noise in public … don’t help the practical settle- ment of issues.” The White House said Biden called Cherelle Griner on Wednesday to assure her that he’s doing all he can to win her release as soon as possible. They spoke after Biden read a letter from Griner in which she said she feared she’d never return home. Washington hasn’t disclosed its strategy in the case and the U.S. may have little lever- age with Moscow because of strong animosity over its ac- tions in Ukraine. The State Department has designated Griner as wrongfully detained, moving her case under the supervision of its special pres- idential envoy for hostage af- fairs, effectively the govern- ment’s chief hostage negotiator. Asked about the possibility of Griner being swapped for a Russian jailed in the U.S., Ry- abkov, the senior Russian dip- lomat, noted that until her trial is over “there are no formal or procedural reasons to talk about any further steps.” Mecca Mexico City Montreal Moscow Nairobi Nassau New Delhi Osaka Oslo Ottawa Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome Santiago Sao Paulo Sapporo Seoul Shanghai Singapore Stockholm Sydney Taipei City Tel Aviv Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Vienna Warsaw 104/83/pc 76/55/pc 76/56/s 79/62/t 71/53/c 88/78/pc 97/81/t 89/78/t 66/51/c 75/50/s 85/55/s 76/67/s 90/64/s 51/39/r 76/56/s 83/71/pc 90/75/pc 93/83/t 89/80/pc 67/50/t 60/51/s 96/81/t 88/72/s 86/76/pc 74/58/s 70/58/pc 76/57/pc 70/52/t alexander Zemlianichenko/aP WNBA star and two-time Olym- pic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted to a courtroom for a hearing in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday. He warned that U.S. criti- cism, including a description of Griner as wrongfully de- tained and dismissive com- ments about the Russian judicial system, “makes it dif- ficult to engage in detailed discussion of any possible ex- changes.” “The persistence with which the U.S. administration … describes those who were handed prison sentences for serious criminal articles and those who are awaiting the end of investigation and court ver- dicts as ‘wrongfully detained’ reflects Washington’s refusal to have a sober view of the out- side world,” Ryabkov snapped. Griner’s trial was adjourned after its start last week because two scheduled witnesses did not appear. Such delays are routine in Russian courts and her detention has been autho- rized through Dec. 20, sug- gesting the proceedings could last months. Although Griner’s support- ers initially kept a low profile, calls for Washington to act spiked after the trial’s first day on July 1. “Four months is too long for this to have gone on, and I hope the president acts on her pleas to come home,” the Rev. Al Sharpton said this week. An organization called Win With Black Women sent Biden a letter saying Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called Cherelle Griner, “assur- ing her and stating publicly that Brittney’s safe return was a matter of personal priority; however, we are concerned that the rhetoric does not ap- pear to align with the actions taken to date. We urge you to make a deal to get Brittney back home swiftly.”
