MOSCOW -- The Kremlin warned Thursday that a possible prisoner swap with the United States involving American basketball star Brittney Griner needs to be negotiated quietly without fanfare.U.S. Secretary of…
For months, both Brittney Griner and the U.S. State Department have been carefully measured in everything they said about her detainment in Russia on drug charges. And then came Wednesday.First,…
10:43 AM ETAlexa PhilippouESPN CloseCovers women's college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further…
EUGENE, Ore. -- In the hurdles world before Sydney McLaughlin, it took years to shave fractions of seconds off records, and winning races didn't always mean rewriting history.This once-in-a-lifetime athlete…
EUGENE, Ore. -- Never mind that she got passed at the end of her last sprint around the track. Or ended up with a bronze medal instead of gold.For 15…
LONDON -- The Russian Tennis Federation was quick to claim Elena Rybakina as "our product" on her run to the women's title at Wimbledon.It then praised her training program in…
LONDON -- Too nervous to wave, Elena Rybakina stepped into the Centre Court sunshine before the Wimbledon final Saturday and kept a firm double-grip on the black-and-red straps of the…
LONDON -- Ons Jabeur's historic run of success continues, as she becomes the first woman from Africa to make a singles final of a Grand Slam in the professional era.…
MOSCOW -- American basketball star Brittney Griner went on trial Friday, 4 1/2 months after her arrest on charges of possessing cannabis oil while returning to play for a Russian…
LONDON -- Venus Williams arrived at Wimbledon last week with no intentions of competing. But then she had a change of heart."I had no plan to play," Williams said Friday.…