Four-time WNBA champion Sue Bird re-signed with the Seattle Storm for what will be her 20th season with the team.
Bird’s signing has been expected all offseason but seemed to be delayed while the team figured out the rest of its roster. The 11-time All-Star has spent her entire WNBA career with the Storm after the franchise made her the No. 1 pick in 2002.
This season will be her 18th on the court with Seattle after missing the 2013 and 2019 seasons because of injuries.
“Seattle and the Storm franchise have been home for my entire career,” Bird said in a statement. “This is a special team and I’m looking forward to getting back on the court with them.”
The 40-year-old is coming off another championship season after Seattle won its fourth title playing in the WNBA bubble in Florida. Bird shot a career-best 49.4% from the field and 46.4% on 3-point tries last season. She averaged 9.8 points and 5.2 assists per game. She was limited to 11 regular-season games because of a bone bruise in her knee.
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Russia closer to
lifting of track ban
Russia moved a step closer to having its longstanding suspension from track and field lifted after a plan of doping reforms was approved by World Athletics.
The plan was written by a commission set up by the Russian track federation and tasks it with implementing a series of “immediate actions” with deadlines at various points this year. That includes funding more testing of athletes, a crackdown on Russian regions with particular doping problems, encouraging whistle-blowers and giving athletes more of a voice in how the sport is run.
The plan also contains a detailed admission of past wrongdoing, including by the federation, though it doesn’t address involvement by the Russian state in doping or cover-ups.
Tennis: Roger Federer is withdrawing from this month’s Miami Open so he can spend extra time preparing to “work his way back out on tour,” his agent said. The 20-time Grand Slam champion has not competed in more than a year after having two operations on his right knee during last season.
• Jennifer Brady lost her first match since the Australian Open final, falling to Anett Kontaveit 6-1, 6-2 in the first round of the Qatar Open.
Obituaries: Louis Nix III, a nose guard at Notre Dame before being drafted into the NFL, has died in Florida after being missing for several days, but questions linger about the circumstances of his death.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said Nix, 29, was reported missing Wednesday. An update tweeted late Saturday said Nix had been located but didn’t give any other details. Nix’s mother, Stephanie Wingfield, told Jacksonville news outlets Sunday that authorities said her son died but haven’t told her how.
• Vi Ripken, matriarch of the famed Orioles family that includes Hall of Fame son Cal Ripken Jr. and once the victim of a bizarre kidnapping, has died. She was 82. Family spokesman John Maroon said she died Friday in Aberdeen, Md., where a youth stadium carries the Ripken name.
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