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Coco Gauff stays alive at WTA Finals with win over Jasmine PaoliniCoco Gauff kept her chances of advancing into the playoff portion of the WTA Finals alive with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Italy's Jasmine Paolini on Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,Gauff, who was sloppy in her loss to fellow American Jessica Pegula in their group-play opener on Sunday, had a much more dom...

Naomi Osaka, Iga Swiatek roll into U.S. Open quarterfinalsNo. 23 seed Naomi Osaka advanced to a Grand Slam quarterfinal for the first time since 2021 by routing No. 3 Coco Gauff 6-3, 6-2 in the U.S. Open Round of 16 on Monday in New York.,Osaka won 15 of her 16 first-serve points (93.8 percent) and needed just 64 minutes to finish her dismantling of Gauff,...

Saudi Arabia doesn't grant women equal rights, but plans to host WTA FinalsSaudi Arabia has already invested heavily in several sports. Now, the nation plans to make headway into women’s tennis and host the 2024 WTA Finals — if a deal can be reached....

Coco Gauff-Aryna Sabalenka is tennis' best rivalry

Women’s tennis hasn’t had a great rivalry in some time. The tour was dominated by Serena Williams for so long and no one could have managed to look her in the eye for very long. The closest was her sister Venus, yet matches between the two regularly and mostly were hard on the eyes, because both see...

The Coco Gauff era is fully underway

Coco Gauff was brought to tears at the 2023 Australian Open following a fourth-round loss to Jeļena Ostapenko. A year later she was in danger of another early exit in the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. Unforced errors were piling up and Gauff was forced to rally to pull out a win by tiebre...

This about sums up the Penguins season

Hockey can be infuriating. In no other sport can you do mostly everything right, but a little chinks in the armor can have an outsized effect if they’re spaced out correctly. Go 0-fer on the power play, or don’t get a save at the right time, or give up the wrong odd-man rush in the gimmick of overti...

Naomi Osaka has returned to tennis, but will tennis treat her right this time?

Naomi Osaka is a lot of things. She’s a woman. She’s a mom. She’s great at her job. She’s Black. She’s Asian. And when you’re more than what simple people can comprehend, they usually don’t know how to treat you. Here’s to tennis learning from their mistakes when it comes to Osaka — but we shouldn’t...

Art Briles is still hanging around college football because idiot coaches keep bringing him around

For the second year in a row, Art Briles’ name has been associated with a college football program. And for the second year in a row, it’s because an idiot, posing as a coach, brought him around. Hue Jackson, meet Jeff Lebby....