This post is officially retracted.
[From the retraction: “I’m leaving the post up below, as, to quote Paul Newman (as Doug Roberts, the architect) at the end of “The Towering Inferno,” ‘“‘kind of a shrine to all the bullshit in the world.'”]
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Britney Griner, the anti-American WNBA star who made the Biden Administration give Russia an international criminal (an illegal arms dealer whose nickname is “The Merchant of Death”) in order to save her from her own stupidity and recklessness, is now accused of betting on her own team’s basketball games.
Griner placed “several sizable wagers” on Phoenix Mercury games over the past two seasons according to a Vegas sportsbook employee named Art Tubolls. He noticed “a suspicious number of bets placed by someone who looks suspiciously like Britney Griner, except wearing a mustache and calling herself ‘Rick Slamson.’”
WNBA Ethics Manager Josephine Barron todl the news media,“We’re looking into whether or not she purposely fixed the scores,” adding that Griner could be banned for life if the allegations are true. The bets were disturbing. One wager read, “Mercury will lose by 7 because I’m taking the night off and pretending to have a groin injury.” Another bet was for $1,000 on “Caitlin Clark to drop 30 and break ankles.”
Right now Griner’s fans and allies are in the spin and denial stage, but it doesn’t look good for her, and anyone who is shocked—shocked!—hasn’t been paying attention. On the way to creating an international incident, she knowingly defied a State Department warning not to travel to Russia, doing so for money, although she was hardly destitute. She carried with her substances that she knew were illegal in Russia, and that she knew carried serious criminal penalties. Her explanations and excuses after she was caught breaking the law in Russia strained credulity: for example, a U.S. doctor has no authority to waive Russian drug laws, but Griner tried to use a letter from her physician justifying medical marijuana use by the athlete to get around her illegal possession charges. Then she sought diplomatic rescue from the nation she had condemned a racist while serving as a Black Lives Matter advocate. Griner is just not very bright, and there is a strong link between inadequate intelligence and unethical conduct. The link becomes stronger with wealth and celebrity.
Griner is, in short, a proven jerk, much like Pete Rose, baseball’s poster boy for forbidden gambling. The gambling allegations regarding the WNBA star, if true, just prove that she’s an even bigger jerk than I originally thought.
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Pointer: JutGory
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I now need to go look and see if “Rick Slamson” is in the list of the many names of David Ryder…
Nope. It would fit in the list though. At she didn’t use the pseudonym “McLovin”.
Entitlement breed contempt of rules. One doesn’t have to have a deficient intellect for that to be the case. One’s intellect can be clouded by entitlement, so that even seemingly smart people do very stupid things.
Betting on a result and saying it will happen because you are taking the night off is just too odd. Either it is a cry for attention/help or someone is setting her up.
Why wear a ‘stache? Who bets in-person anymore? Media is bombarded with online sports betting ads and apps. Do they take a picture of the user? That seems like it would be a bigger story than Griner.
Maybe I should start with; Stop making me defend Brittney Griner.
I’m not sure this story is true. It’s said to have originated from a satire site. The Dunning-Kruger Times is a satire site. At the very bottom of the home page: “Copyright 2025 — Busta Troll. Nothing on this page is real.”
I cannot find any “reliable” source to back up this claim.
Edward,
You know, as I was cutting and pasting it, I saw dunning kruger in the name of the website and it did not occur to me that anything might be amiss.
It registered, but did not raise a red flag.
-Jut
Unfortunately, it’s getting more and more difficult to detect fakes and satire because of the way it is presented. I’m not sure the story isn’t true but I haven’t been able to find any source for the story other than satire.
There are some “fact check” claims that it is false but these sometimes are fake too. So, you have fake stories and fake (or biased) fact checks and it’s difficult to discern which is valid.
The funny thing is that, usually, satire sites are funny. There was nothing about this story that seemed humorous, except that she was dumber than Pete Rose, which should earn her a Nelson–if it is true.
-Jut
i don’t blame you for this, JG, it’s my fault entirely, along with the assholes who posted it originally.
Small consolation. With clear eyes and no biases, I should have seen through this one.
I can’t find a single news site, even Fox or the NY Post, for Heaven’s sake, that is reporting this. I also see the “disclaimer” on the bottom of the page. If this is a satire site, it doesn’t look very funny. None of these headlines are what I would call obvious satire. They should, perhaps, put their disclaimer where it can be easily spotted. Unethical.
Yes, I agree, but I’m supposed to be more careful than this. Mea culpa, mea culpa.
You were the first one to blow the whistle, and did so less harshly than I deserved. Thanks.
WNBA Ethics Manager Josephine Barron told the news media, “We’re looking into whether or not she purposely fixed the scores,”
That sounds goofy. I’m going to assume any players betting on any games is prohibited by the league, regardless of outcome.
It was goofy. I should have seen through it. Sorry.
Jack,
It would appear the Dunning-Kruger Effect has claimed another victim. In addition to the site’s name, the numerous ridiculous details, and the overall tone, it also makes no sense. Why woud she wear a mustache to disguise herself only to say “because I’m taking the night off ..” ?
You mean me? Yup, I’ll accept that. I deserve it.
It’s weird, but sometimes you can just tell by watching someone that they are shady. She always seemed weird to me.
Yeah, that’s how I fell for the fake story.
if its true or not, i bet there will be mural painted extolling her virtues!
It’s not true—I just posted a retraction. I’m a moron.
Even so, A mural will be painted to extol her virtues