Griner arrested in Russia on drug charge amid war
WNBA star Brittney Griner was arrested at a Moscow airport last month when vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis were allegedly found in her luggage, leaving the 31year-old Phoenix Mercury center in Russia while it wages war in Ukraine.
Horse racing: Favorite Forbidden Kingdom romped to a 53⁄4-length win in the $400,000 San Felipe Stakes, beating a pair of 3-year-old colts from the barn of embattled trainer Bob Baffert, whose Doppelganger was second and Armagnac was sixth.
NFL: LSU star cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. isn’t working out at the scouting combine because he’s still on the mend after tearing a ligament in his left foot last fall . ... Robert Griffin III’s memoir, which promised to share stories of dysfunction within the Washington organization, has been scrapped.
Skiing: Mikaela Shiffrin took a 67-point lead in the World Cup overall standings by placing second in a tricky super-G won by the unheralded Romane Miradoli . ... Dominik Paris dominated a men’s World Cup downhill, beating Alexander Aamodt Kilde, who stretched his lead in the downhill standings to 23 points over Olympic champion Beat Feuz.
Tennis: Roger Federer said any tournament comeback from his knee surgery last year will not be until at least the late summer . ... The U.S., France, Spain and Argentina eased into the Davis Cup Finals while Belgium scraped past host Finland 3-2 in qualifiers.
MLB: Max Scherzer favors a radical reworking of the playoffs, one that would have the higher seed in the first round of an expanded postseason start a best-offive series with a 1-0 lead. MLB and locked-out players, who resume talks Sunday, both would expand the playoffs from 10 teams.
Cycling: Two-time Tour de France champ Tadej Pogacar used an unprecedented long-distance solo attack to win the Strade Bianche.
Soccer: Cindy Parlow Cone was re-elected to a four-year team as U.S. Soccer Federation president . ... Liverpool won its seventh straight in the EPL by beating West Ham 1-0 to move within three points of leader Manchester City.