The BulleTin • Friday, July 8, 2022 B5
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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. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. 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.
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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.”
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Sapporo
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
Stockholm
Sydney
Taipei City
Tel Aviv
Tokyo
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Vancouver
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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.”