Kelsey Plum announces shock split from NFL tight…. see more…

According to 3 News, records show that a joint petition for a divorce was filed on Tuesday, in Clark County District Court.

Plum, who has won back-to-back WNBA championships with Las Vegas, hinted that that she would one day divulge details behind the separation.

There is an established precedent for creative excuses when a doping infraction is brought to an athlete’s doormat. An oldie but goodie will always be found in the life tale of Dennis Mitchell, who was once an Olympic medal-winning sprinter for the United States and has travelled to Paris for these Games as coach to Sha’Carri Richardson.

If we go back to 1988, he found himself in a spot of bother after being busted for high levels of testosterone in his sample. His reasoning became a classic of the genre, for he would pin it on having sex with his wife ‘at least’ four times in a night. As he put it: ‘It was her birthday, the lady deserved a treat.’

That play didn’t quite work – he was banned for two years and more than three decades on it still resurfaces in gags and columns.

It’s always easier to snigger when the disgrace falls outside our own borders. Just as it tends to be a reflex at these points in a four-year Olympic cycle to assume the worst of those beyond them when an excuse rings a little strange. By extension, we always seem to give a bit of extra leeway to doubt when Brits are involved in a doping matter.

This has been one of those months. The Chinese swimmers? You will likely know about them by now, and more precisely the 11 here in France who were among a group of 23 who failed tests for a banned substance ahead of the Tokyo Games of 2021.