In April of 2013, just days after she was selected by the Phoenix Mercury as the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, she came out and admitted she's gay. Less than a month later, she criticized Baylor coach Kim Mulkey for making her keep her sexual orientation private because it would hurt recruiting. MORE: Sam speaks at combine | Sam’s marketing power | Arizona’s “Anti-gay bill” vetoed Griner has a book titled "In My Skin," which is scheduled to hit shelves on April 8....

Laurel Griggs, who had been acting since the age of six, died on Tuesday, according to her obituary on Dignity Memorial. A funeral service was held on Friday. No cause of death has been revealed. Newsweek has contacted a representative for Griggs for comment. Griggs made her Broadway debut as Polly in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 2013 alongside Johansson before becoming the longest-running performer to play Ivanka in the Tony Award-winning musical Once, according to her IMDb page....

The following night on Raw, he went after the new champ who took the title without even pinning him, cashing in his Money in the Bank. When Lesnar couldn’t get his hands on Rollins, he went on a rampage, destroying everything in his path including announcer Michael Cole and a cameraman. MORE: Five things we learned from Raw | Destination America adds Ring of Honor | Chris Jericho to host ‘Tough Enough’...

DeMarcus Ware will undergo surgery Tuesday to repair a fractured ulna suffered Sunday against the Colts. Coach Gary Kubiak said Monday that Ware will be sidelined four to five weeks. The 34-year-old pass-rushing specialist currently sits 10th in NFL history with 136.5 career sacks and has been named to the Pro Bowl nine times. MORE: Fantasy football Week 3 waiver wire must-haves While Denver will miss his experience, the luxury of being able to promote Shane Ray to the starting role leaves the Broncos in better shape than other teams would be in a similar situation....

A judge accepted the deal on Monday during a brief hearing in Denver. Ward previously pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor assault and disturbing the peace charges for allegedly throwing a glass mug at a female bartender at PT’s All Nude Club in May. Ward told the judge he understood the conditions of the program but said nothing else. A judge will review the status of the case on Oct. 31....

We’re talking a 5-year extension worth $245 million, with $165 of that guaranteed. And, man, this could turn out to be a mountainous mistake from the Broncos. Is it possible to be underrated and overpaid? In a sense, yes. MORE: Russell Wilson contract details: Broncos sign QB to massive extension Wilson already was set to earn $51 million over the next two seasons, the last two on the contract extension he signed with Seattle....

“Just got off the phone with the @WhiteHouse. I appreciate @POTUS reaching out to offer his administration’s support,” Elliott tweeted with a photo of him on the phone. Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, died Sunday afternoon after being shot by a Minneapolis police officer during a traffic stop in the suburb of Brooklyn Center. The shooting sparked unrest late into the night during a time when the city is already on edge amid the trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin, who is standing trial for the death of George Floyd....

World No. 1 Koepka claimed three victories during the 2018-19 PGA Tour season, winning The CJ Cup at Nine Bridges, the U.S. PGA Championship and the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. While McIlroy won the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup title on Sunday, he was edged by Koepka to the player of the year crown. Koepka finished with 84 points, ahead of McIlroy (78) with Patrick Cantlay and U.S. Open champion Gary Woodland (42) well back....

The siblings, from Kavango West in Namibia, were fetching water from the Okavango River in their village Ntara, when the crocodile attacked. Regimiya Haikera, aged nine, was seized in the reptile’s jaws, and it bit into her inner thigh and the left side of her ribs, reported local news site New Era. Her brother Johannes Ndara, who is 19 years old, leaped into action immediately. “My sister was behind me when we went downstream to fill up our buckets and I just heard her screaming from behind and when I turned around, she was caught by the crocodile....

Bill Brown and Alan Ashby have an unenviable task, soldiering through an Astros season that almost nobody is watching. While Houston is not doing as badly as you might expect from an attendance standpoint, averaging 24,327 fans per game so far to rank 20th in the major leagues, a CSN Houston broadcast earlier this month drew a 0.0 Nielsen rating . A broadcast team in this situation can either mail it in and go completely off course, or it can use the opportunity to try different things — maybe those things work, maybe they don't, but it will be interesting if that's the approach....

The Browns pass rusher seems to really take the whole Halloween thing seriously, and his pregame apparel before Cleveland’s matchup with the Steelers was more reinforcement of that. Garrett took the field pregame in a full Halloween costume, complete with a mask, scythe and a cape that features ist of quarterbacks he’s sacked adorned on his back. MORE: Myles Garrett’s QB graveyard, explained The full list of QBs on Garrett’s back:...

Garrett told Cleveland.com’s Mary Kay Cabot on Monday that he has been thinking for months about requesting a one-on-one meeting to try to get beyond the incident. Garrett tore Rudolph’s helmet off his head and hit him in the skull with it late in the fourth quarter of the AFC North rivals’ Week 11 game. Garrett insists he was reacting to hearing Rudolph call him the N-word; Rudolph has denied the slur allegation and has threatened through his attorney to sue Garrett for defamation....

The Browns quarterback responded to Rex Ryan’s “overrated as hell” remarks after the analyst had some harsh words for the second-year signal-caller earlier this week. “In the wise words of [coach] Freddie Kitchens, ‘If you don’t wear orange and Brown, you don’t matter!’ Rex doesn’t have any colors on right now for a reason,” Mayfield told reporters Wednesday. Ryan had more than a couple things to complain about while discussing Mayfield on ESPN’s “Get Up” on Monday after the Browns fell to the Rams....

Shortly after securing its first win of 2019, Cleveland’s social team won the internet by sharing a hilarious remake of the iconic “Friends” title sequence featuring Odell Beckham Jr., Jarvis Landry, Joel Bitonio, Damarious Randall, Denzel Ward and JC Tretter. MORE: Beckham takes shots at Gregg Williams, Giants after win The video was titled “B • R • O • W • N • S,” mimicking the imagery of “Friends,” and featured an orange fountain, couch, lamp and the iconic “I’ll Be There For You” theme song....

Gordon was taken into custody after being pulled over for going 50 mph in a 35 mph zone on U.S. 70 in northwest Raleigh around 3 a.m. Saturday, police spokesman Jim Sughrue said. PHOTOS: Disgraced athletes The police report on Gordon’s arrest wasn’t finished, so Sughrue didn’t know what type of vehicle Gordon was driving or what led the officer to suspect he had been drinking. Gordon was released on bail....

Unlike the official forecasters at the National Weather Service and elsewhere, Cohen, director of seasonal forecasting for Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., doesn’t base his prognostications on crude indicators such as the status of El Nino. His research shows that something much subtler—the amount of snow cover in Siberia around the end of October—is the best crystal ball ever discovered when it comes to predicting winter weather in the U....

As more information emerges about the link between football-related head injuries and degenerative brain diseases, many parents have said they don’t want their kids playing football. MORE: 2016 Mock NFL Draft | Report claims NFL concussion research flawed Arians’ opinion of those people is not high. “People that say, ‘I won’t let my son play [football]’ are fools,” Arians told Sports Illustrated. Recently, the NFL’s top executive for health and safety, Jeff Miller, told the U....

That doesn’t sit well with Bruce Arians and Larry Fitzgerald. MORE: Best Cardinals of all time | Who are these Arizona cheerleaders cheering to? “It drives me crazy that, after two (great) years, we come into a game with a 10-2 record and an opportunity to close out the division, and we still have 20,000 Vikings fans in the stadium,” Fitzgerald told the Arizona Republic, referring to last week’s game against Minnesota....

The music legend, 73, and his wife Patti Scialfa Springsteen, revealed the new addition to their family in July. Their youngest son, Sam, 28, and his partner recently welcomed daughter Lily Harper to the world. Springsteen revealed his first grandchild was growing fast during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday. “Grandchild is no longer an infant, it is a baby,” he said proudly. “And the amazing thing is that only takes about four months....

Boston’s defense corps will feature two rookies to start the season, and at least two rookies will be in the lineup up front. That means Carlo might be asked to use his NHL experience to be a guiding light to some inexperienced players that will have an immense impact on the success or failure of the Bruins this season. Carlo, who roomed with forward Frank Vatrano most of last season, might even be asked to help his neophyte teammates off the ice by taking one into his home....