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New-look Dortmund starts season with 3-0 win at 1860 Munich

(AP) — With a strengthened
defense and new-look attack, Terzić was unable to play Sébastien
Borussia Dortmund started the Haller, who was signed as a replace-
new season with a 3-0 win at ment for Haaland, as the Ivory Coast
third-division team 1860 Munich forward is recovering after an opera-
in the first round of the German tion on a testicular tumor.
Cup on Friday. American Gio Reyna did not feature
in the squad but there was no imme-
Donyell Malen, Jude Bellingham diate word from the club on any po-
and new signing Karim Adeyemi all tential injury.
scored in the first half for dominant
Dortmund, which showed no ill ef- Dortmund also controlled the second
fect following top goal-scorer Erling half and failed to add to its tally de-
Haaland's switch to Manchester City spite finishing the game with 25 shots
in the offseason. at goal compared to the home side's
one. The 1860 goalkeeper Marco
Adeyemi, who joined from Salzburg, Hiller made several saves.
Malen and the 17-year-old Youssoufa
Moukoko all started up front for the Stuttgart edged past third-division
visitors, while coach Edin Terzić also club Dynamo Dresden 1-0 thanks to
began with new signings Niklas Süle Darko Churlinov's first-half strike. yellow card. Neustrelitz 8-0 and second-tier
and Nico Schlotterbeck in central de- Stuttgart had defender Waldemar An- Nuremberg beat fourth-tier Kaan-
fense. ton sent off in the 67th for a second Karlsruher SC routed fifth-tier team Marienborn 2-0.

Blinken, Russian top diplomat speak about Griner, Whelan

(AP) — Secretary of State direct outreach to Russian that proposal," he said. "I Ministry said. free Griner and other Ameri-
Antony Blinken spoke by officials allows the Biden ad- can't give you an assessment cans whom the U.S. has
phone to Russian Foreign ministration to show it is go- of whether that is any more Blinken's comments ear- declared to be "wrongfully
Minister Sergey Lavrov ing all out to try to free the or less likely." lier this week marked the detained" — a designation
on Friday in the highest- two U.S. citizens, it also risks first time the U.S. govern- sharply rejected by Russian
level known contact be- undermining a core U.S. Blinken also said he had ment publicly revealed any officials.
tween the two sides since message to allies abroad: that pressed Lavrov on the im- concrete action it has taken
Russia invaded Ukraine, isolating Russia diplomatical- portance of Russia follow- to secure Griner's release. Whelan, a corporate security
with Blinken urging Rus- ly and economically will ulti- ing through on an agree- The two-time Olympic gold executive from Michigan,
sia to accept a deal to win mately force Russia to pull its ment to allow Ukrainian medalist and player for the was sentenced to 16 years in
the release of American troops from Ukraine. grain shipments to leave the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury prison on espionage charges
detainees Brittney Griner Black Sea and warned him of was arrested at a Moscow air- in 2020. He and his family
and Paul Whelan. Blinken did not provide de- consequences should Mos- port in mid-February when have vigorously asserted his
tails of Lavrov's response to cow move ahead with sus- inspectors found vape car- innocence. The U.S. gov-
Russian officials gave no what he had previously called pected plans to annex por- tridges containing cannabis ernment has denounced the
public hint whether Blinken a "substantial proposal" for tions of eastern and southern oil in her luggage. charges as false.
had made any headway, only Russia to release Whelan and Ukraine. Russia has for years expressed
issuing a chiding statement Griner. Blinken had pub- Griner's arrest came at a time interest in the release of
afterward urging the U.S. licly requested the call and Blinken said he told Lavrov of heightened tensions be- Bout, a Russian arms dealer
to pursue the Americans' revealed the existence of the that the world will "never tween Moscow and Washing- once labeled the "Merchant
freedom through "quiet di- offer to Russia. People famil- recognize" any annexation of ton ahead of Russia sending of Death." He was sentenced
plomacy, without releases of iar with the offer say the U.S. Ukrainian territory, which he troops into Ukraine on Feb. to 25 years in prison in 2012
speculative information." wants to swap Whelan and said would "result in signifi- 24. Griner's five months of on charges that he schemed
Griner for convicted Russian cant additional costs for Rus- detention have raised strong to illegally sell millions of
U.S. officials have in recent arms dealer Viktor Bout. sia." criticism among teammates dollars in weapons.
days publicized their efforts Blinken described the call as He declined to comment on and supporters in the United
to get back Griner, a WNBA "a frank and direct conversa- how Lavrov replied to his States. Kremlin officials presum-
star, and Whelan, a corporate tion" centered primarily on messages. "I don't want to Her trial on drug charges ably reveled in the news that
security executive, whose the detained Americans. characterize any of Foreign started in a court outside the U.S., which has rallied
cases have drawn widespread "I urged Foreign Minister Minister Lavrov's responses." Moscow this month, and friendly countries around the
national attention. While the Lavrov to move forward with she testified Wednesday that world to cut even vital trade
In its statement afterward, she didn't know how the car- ties with Russia to pressure it
the Russian Foreign Minis- tridges ended up in her bag to withdraw from Ukraine,
try said Lavrov "strongly sug- but that she had a doctor's was now seeking engagement
gested" to Blinken "returning recommendation to use can- with Russia on a problem of
to a professional dialogue in nabis to treat career-related its own.
the mode of quiet diplomacy" pain. "They are going to drag this
on any efforts at American out and try to humiliate us as
detainees' release. The 31-year-old has pleaded much as they can," said Ian
guilty but said she had no Kelly, a retired career diplo-
Lavrov also repeated Rus- criminal intent in bringing mat who served as U.S. am-
sia's vows to keep fighting the cartridges to Russia and bassador to Georgia in the
until it has achieved its aims packed in haste for her return Obama and Trump adminis-
in Ukraine, renewed com- to play in a Russian basketball trations. "I don't think it goes
plaints that U.S. and NATO league during the WNBA's along with (the administra-
support to Ukraine was pro- offseason. She faces up to 10 tion's) overall policy."
longing the conflict, and ac- years in prison if convicted of
cused the U.S. of not yet transporting drugs. Kelly said the request for a
keeping up its end of agree- call is "counterproductive to
ments on the grain shipments The Biden administration our broader effort to isolate
from Ukraine, the Foreign has faced political pressure to Russia."