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The forward did not play last season while detained in Russia.
This week, Brittney Griner officially announced her return to the Mercury for the 2023 season after she missed all of last year while detained in Russia over drug charges. On Friday, Phoenix posted its first video of Griner back in a Mercury uniform since her return the United States.
The team held a photoshoot with the center for the upcoming season and posted a behind the scenes video of the event. Griner can be seen smiling and playing around with a basketball and the crew in between shots.

After being detained on Feb.

Kansas City Chiefs running back Isiah Pacheco may not ever stop dancing. The 23-year-old rookie started the party in the second half of the Super Bowl and only continues to rock.
Pacheco, who was drafted in the seventh round of the 2022 NFL Draft, quickly emerged as the primary ball-carrier in Kansas City en route to Super Bowl LVII. He finished with 76 yards and a crucial touchdown in the comeback win over Philadelphia and won a ring in his first year in the league.
The Eagles adopted Lil Uzi’s song ‘I Just Wanna Rock’ throughout the 2022 season and made it their own.

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Push the star players aside. These five members of a rotation could make or break their team’s chances at a title
We’ve all heard the tropes and the common sayings: star players win championships. The NBA season is long and often a war of attrition, where the healthiest and most stable star groupings are the ones cutting down the nets in June.
Stars don’t get there alone, though. The postseason is unrelentingly brutal on role players, guys who either get picked on by those superstars or are tasked with stopping them.

Major League Baseball pitchers and hitters will get a feel for how the new pitch timer will affect the game this weekend, when teams play spring training games.

After a slew of teams across sports named after indigenous groups folded and changed their branding, at least one, the Indianapolis Indians, have stood their ground,
Not only that, but they’ve also announced a partnership with the Miami Nation of Indians of Indiana.
Indianapolis, the Triple-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates announced that the Indians moniker will stick around in 2023 and 2024. They’ve had that name since 1902.
In that same announcement, the team revealed their partnership with the Miami Nation of Indians of Indiana.

After leaving the Ukrainian military, the reigning welterweight champion returns Saturday with a renewed ‘desire and energy’ for the sport of MMA.

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One of the more fascinating fights of the year takes place this Saturday in Dublin, Ireland when Yaroslav Amosov returns to Bellator for a welterweight title unification bout against Logan Storley.
Amosov, the reigning welterweight champ, has not fought since June 11, 2021.

The Tennessee baseball team is currently in limbo regarding one of its star transfer portal players, Maui Ahuna. It seems the NCAA, and others, have a problem with how the Kansas transfer shortstop ended up in Knoxville.
According to multiple sources in college baseball, the Vols and head coach Tony Vitello are dealing with an NCAA inquiry for its recruitment of Ahuna. The inquiry began in July 2022, one month after Ahuna committed to transferring to Tennessee.
OutKick reached out to Tennessee’s athletics department, which did not have a comment on the matter.

The 24–4 Crimson Tide are going to face heavy scrutiny, particularly if they make what appears to be a likely NCAA tournament run.
In the course of one week, Alabama men’s basketball has become what Alabama football is accustomed to being: a national lightning rod. But this has less to do with relentless winning than with program accountability.
The Crimson Tide will be a massive flashpoint come March Madness, when they might be favored to win the national championship. They will be booed, taunted, debated—and defended by some.

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Red Bull’s sister team puts in the most laps, and rookie Nyck de Vries pushes his lap time towards the top of the board
After a “positive” first day of pre-season testing at Bahrain International Circuit ahead of the 2023 Formula 1 season, AlphaTauri put in a heavy workload on the second day. Drivers Yuki Tsunoda and rookie teammate Nyck de Vries combined on Friday to complete 159 laps, the most from any team during the second day of testing.

A ‘sick’ Shaq didn’t get much sympathy from Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith.
1. Could we be honest with one another for a moment? It’s just me and you here and many of you have been with me since the Hot Clicks days, so we can trust one another.
Anytime a coworker calls out sick, you never fully believe said coworker is sick. Even if you know that coworker is sick, there is a tiny part of you that thinks, “Oh, they just stay in bed, binge-watch a show and fart around all day.”
Now, I would never say this out loud. And most of you reading this would never say this out loud.