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Nick Kyrgios Retires From Match After Losing First Set To Luigi
Thursday will mark an important anniversary in Nick Kyrgios’s life: Last year in Shanghai he openly threw a match, abused fans in the stands, and earned eight weeks of suspension plus $41,500 in fines (later softened to three weeks after he agreed to meet with a tour-appointed sports psychologist). ...
What The Hell Is Going On With Markelle Fultz's Free Throws?
Have you ever found a caterpillar, fed and nurtured it in a jar, seen it through its cocoon phase, watched it emerge as a nice butterfly, and then released it into the wild with a happy little hop? Maybe Markelle Fultz did a lot of that back in the day because that’s how he shoots a damn free throw ...
Nick Kyrgios's Tantrum Was Rafael Nadal's Cue To Dominate
How was your weekend? I got myself a nice bowl of pasta but some new mosquito bites. Nick Kyrgios, too, had both good and bad times....
The Tennis Will Be Good As Hell This Weekend, If You're Awake For It
Frankly this chunk of the tennis calendar, known as the “Asian swing” because it passes through China and Japan, is the easiest to tune out, especially for a viewer in a U.S. time zone. The year’s last major just wrapped up, the year-end finals are still months away, and the time difference makes it...
There Might Finally Be Some Transparency In Tennis Match-Fixing Investigations<em></em>
The Tennis Integrity Unit, the sport’s governing body for investigating corruption, typically describes its work in anonymizing generality, which can be frustrating for anyone who wants to know the gory details beyond “Which tournament was it?” In August, the TIU did however make an unusual move: It...
Fabio Fognini Is A Bad Man But A Fun Player
The reason I enjoy watching Fabio Fognini is that he’s a sleepy pirate who produces ridiculous shots with no apparent effort or preparation. The reason I’m not more enthusiastic in my enjoyment is that he’s a chauvinistic turd who called a female ump a “cocksucking whore” in his native tongue, getti...
Tennis Authorities Accept Daniel Evans's Explanation That He Accidentally Got Cocaine On His Pills, Limit His Suspension To One Year
Daniel Evans, a British tennis player with a hell of a forehand, was issued a one-year ban from tennis today by the International Tennis Federation after testing positive for cocaine in April. Evans admitted to using the drug outside of active competition and said he later put a packet of it in his...
American Tennis Player Resembles Luigi During Biggest Win Of His Career
Steve Johnson is the fourth-best American in men’s tennis. Here is what he usually looks like. ...
People Can't Get Enough Of The "Hydrating Kristaps" Meme
Folks, another NBA season is upon us, and wouldn’t you know it, the sports world’s biggest meme market is heating up again. Pop quiz: do you know the hottest NBA meme right now? The answer might be Hoodie Melo. It all started after the world saw some clips of Carmelo Anthony playing basketball nicel...
Tennis Player's Creative Outburst: "I Feel Like A Nymphomaniac Is Also A Nun"
“Irritable! Irritable!” shouted Deiton Baughman during his match Wednesday against Prajnesh Gunneswaran at the ATP Challenger Tiburon. After a forehand error to lose his serve at 7-6, 4-3, Baughman thumped a ball clean out of the court, earning a code violation. But that wasn’t his most inventive ex...
The Laver Cup Is What You Get When Tennis Tries To Be More Like Pro Wrestling, And That's A Good Thing
The worst-case scenario for the Laver Cup—a first attempt to construct an all-star game for men’s tennis, pitting the best players from Europe against the best players from everywhere else—was that it’d end up an elaborate, expensive excuse to smush nemeses Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal onto the sa...
Michael Beasley Just Wants To Know Who The Real Brain Genius Is
Michael Beasley is new to New York. Already he has said that he is “your favorite player’s favorite player” and that he, at 28, can still be “one of the best in the NBA.” Slow your roll, Beez. There are at least two more reasonable goals for you to achieve first: starting small forward(???) for the...
Nick Kyrgios Says His Kneeling At Laver Cup Was Tribute To His Late Grandparents
Nick Kyrgios battled Roger Federer Sunday at the Laver Cup in another installment of what’s become one of the most desirable matchups in men’s tennis. Before the match began in Prague, with no anthem of any country playing, he took a knee....
Carmelo Anthony Has Escaped A Hell Partly Of His Own Making
What did it feel like, at the very end?...
Jack Sock Blasts Two Forehands
The Laver Cup, which began today in Prague, is like a men’s tennis All-Star game—except good, because the players try. Over three days, some of Europe’s best are pitted against some of the best from everywhere else, on a greyscale court that makes every match look like an expensive cologne ad....
Apparently Shapo Did Not Know How To Hit A Dang Slice As Of Three Months Ago
The slice is one of the most basic tools of tennis, a versatile shot that can do any of the following and more: safely chip back big-ass serves, buy time to recover from aggressive attacks, inject a surprise change-up to the rhythm of a rally, send an annoyingly low ball to an opponent, or handle a ...
Amazon Is Getting Into Streaming Tennis
There are surely a whole raft of reasons that tennis no longer enjoys the mainstream U.S. popularity of say, the McEnroe-Connors era, but one big one springs to mind: Where the hell do you even find it?...
Why Don't You Ding-Dongs Come To The Net?
Roger Federer is a generous man. He’s spent the last two decades of his life pouring every bit of his heart, mind, and soul into giving us the best tennis experience possible. All he’s ever asked of us in return is that we come to the net more....
Nick Kyrgios Took A Beating
Given the prim tone of the sport, genuine trash-talking is an unlikely sight in tennis. When Alexander Zverev visibly uttered “fuck” while starting down his vanquished opponent, fans in the gallery may have dropped their champagne flutes and lost their monocles due to violent eye-popping. That was f...
Tennis Player Tennys Sandgren Melts Down During Ump Dispute
Tennys Sandgren, the Pizzagater with a cute name, let loose on an ump during Thursday’s 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 loss to Cameron Norrie at the Cary Challenger, after what appeared to be a baseless accusation of illegal coaching. (Players are not allowed to get feedback from coaches mid-match.)...