U.S. women’s basketball star Brittney Griner and her fiance, fellow WNBA player Glory Johnson, have been arrested in Arizona on charges of assault with intent to injure and disorderly conduct, jail records showed on Thursday. Griner, who has played with the Phoenix Mercury WNBA team since 2013, and Johnson, who plays for the WNBA’s Tulsa Shock, were booked into the Maricopa County Jail in downtown Phoenix on Wednesday and released
U.S. women’s basketball star Brittney Griner and her fiance, fellow WNBA player Glory Johnson, have been arrested in Arizona on charges of assault with intent to injure and disorderly conduct, jail records showed on Thursday. Griner, who has played with the Phoenix Mercury WNBA team since 2013, and Johnson, who plays for the WNBA’s Tulsa Shock, were booked into the Maricopa County Jail in downtown Phoenix on Wednesday and released
Mike Woods laughed out loud the first time he saw a FootGolf video. “Yet that’s the absolute target market for soccer.” FootGolf, played by kicking a soccer ball over fairways and bunkers and into oversized holes by the rough, has been embraced by a U.S. golf industry that has seen hundreds of courses shuttered in recent years. “FootGolf is to the golf industry what snowboarding was to the ski industry,”
-After Jeremy Clarkson’s blowup that cost him his contract as Top Gear host and put the remainder of Season 22 on hold, one of the first things BBC officials promised was that the show would return. Now, the broadcast company is confirming that claim, vowing to air the rest of Season 22, and bring back a revamped version of the show next year. – That’s the word from Kim Shillinglaw,
Defending champion Alexander Levy made a battling three under par at the Volvo China Open Thursday to put him within striking distance of the lead at the $3.2 million tournament. The Frenchman was in a group of three one shot behind leaders Bradley Dredge of Wales, Michael Hendry of New Zealand and England’s David Howell at the par 72 Tomson Shanghai Pudong Golf Club. Levy was joined by compatriot Julien
-After Jeremy Clarkson’s blowup that cost him his contract as Top Gear host and put the remainder of Season 22 on hold, one of the first things BBC officials promised was that the show would return. Now, the broadcast company is confirming that claim, vowing to air the rest of Season 22, and bring back a revamped version of the show next year. – That’s the word from Kim Shillinglaw,
European Tour Players Committee chairman Thomas Bjorn, who shunned his own circuit this week to play on the Asian Tour, shook off the jet lag to grab a share of the first round lead at the Indonesia Masters on Thursday. The Dane, 44, racked up seven birdies in his six-under-par 66 after some pin-point iron play at the Royal Jakarta Golf Club to join early pacesetter, Taiwan’s Chan Shih-chang, at
-“Convertible” and “automatic” are two words that can suck the joy out of a sports car the way fat-free and sugar-free can ruin a dessert. But that’s not quite the case with the Chevrolet Corvette Z06. The Z06 convertible proves that there doesn’t have to be a performance penalty for taking the roof off and adding a conventional automatic. Weight rises by an unnoticed 55 pounds, the structure remains stout
-“Convertible” and “automatic” are two words that can suck the joy out of a sports car the way fat-free and sugar-free can ruin a dessert. But that’s not quite the case with the Chevrolet Corvette Z06. The Z06 convertible proves that there doesn’t have to be a performance penalty for taking the roof off and adding a conventional automatic. Weight rises by an unnoticed 55 pounds, the structure remains stout
European Tour Players Committee chairman Thomas Bjorn, who shunned his own circuit this week to play on the Asian Tour, shook off the jet lag to grab a share of the first round lead at the Indonesia Masters on Thursday. The Dane, 44, racked up seven birdies in his six-under-par 66 after some pin-point iron play at the Royal Jakarta Golf Club to join early pacesetter, Taiwan’s Chan Shih-chang, at
