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Message: [QUOTE="JavaMan, post: 2007400, member: 5562"] [FONT=Arial]Too close of a call for my liking. [/FONT] [CENTER] [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/sports/basketball/wnba-pay-overseas-safety-turkey-terrorism.html?smid=tw-nytsports&smtyp=cur'][ATTACH=full]18977[/ATTACH][/URL][/CENTER] [FONT=Arial][I]Kiah Stokes celebrated New Year’s Eve at a nightclub in Istanbul, where she plays basketball for Besiktas of the Turkish league. But a night of revelry turned alarming when club employees told patrons they had to shut down early for security reasons.[/I] [I]As Stokes and her friends left the building, they saw closed-off roads. They cautiously walked for about 10 minutes before finding a taxi to take them home, not knowing that a gunman had killed 39 people at another club down the street and was still at large.[/I] [I]“You don’t think something can happen,” said Stokes, who, in September, finished her second season with the Liberty of the W.N.B.A. “Now I’m like, ‘Wow, this is just scary.’”[/I] [I]Players like Stokes have long packed up after the W.N.B.A. season and spent their winters abroad, competing with teams that offer larger paychecks than the women can earn in the American league.[/I] [/FONT] [B][FONT=Arial][URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/sports/basketball/wnba-pay-overseas-safety-turkey-terrorism.html?smid=tw-nytsports&smtyp=cur'][MORE][/URL][/FONT][/B] [/QUOTE]