Tag: player
‘I use cannabis as medicine’: the US basketball player facing execution in Indonesia over $400 of gummies
Unlike his fellow basketball player Brittney Griner, Jarred Shaw has received scant attention after being arrested for a drugs offence overseas When Jarred Shaw, an American basketball player in Indonesia, stepped down to the lobby in his apartment complex earlier this year to collect a package containing illegally imported cannabis gummies, he thought that the…
Ex-Traitors player: ‘Beware those who talk too much’
A contestant from last year’s series of The Traitors has revealed her tips on how to spot potential “traitors” as the third series kicked off with some major plot twists. In the BBC hit reality tv show those contestants chosen as “traitors” must secretly “murder” their fellow players, called the “faithfuls”, who aim to detect…
American football player and aspiring nurse among those killed
A well-known American football player, a young aspiring nurse and a mother of a four-year-old are among the victims of the New Year’s day attack in New Orleans in which at least 15 people were killed. Their names are being released by families and relatives before authorities complete post-mortem examinations. Here’s what we know so…
Top chess player is back in competition after quitting over dress code
By Scott Neuman Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is at the World Blitz Championship — a competition he has won seven times previously — after going head-to-head with organizers over his refusal to change out of jeans in apparent violation of a strict dress code. Carlsen, from Norway, is the world’s top chess player. He quit…