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Stop Infantilizing Venus Williams
Five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams lost to Garbiñe Muguruza in the final today and for Williams, her team, and fans of good tennis, dynasties, and greatness, it sucked. But not nearly as much the sickly-sweet, smarm-drenched “there’s no losers here” takes that make a tennis legend and cultu...
Knicks Reportedly Hire Away Kings' Best Front Office Guy After Just Three Months On The Job
The Sacramento Kings have spent this NBA offseason as a darling of the league for the first time in what feels like 15 years. They drafted well, nabbing hyperfast point guard De’Aaron Fox at five and picking three more players later in the draft that were generally viewed as good value picks for a f...
Get Out Of Venus Williams's Way
The five-time Wimbledon champion played a nearly perfect match to down Britain’s Johanna Konta in straight sets and book her ninth trip to the Wimbledon final and her second major final of the year. Using ferocious body serves, judicious approach shots, and her typical powerful groundstrokes, Willia...
A Screaming Fan Helped Knock Out Simona Halep At Wimbledon
After Wimbledon two-seed Simona Halep and six-seed Johanna Konta split the first two sets of their quarterfinal match in tiebreaks, the deciding set was a tense affair, with fans groaning and gasping after every point. At 5-4, 40-15, Konta was serving for the match. Halep pinned the Brit to the base...
The Quest To Bring Women's Kickboxing To India
KOLKATA, India—Sonia Das is three-fourths the height of her opponent, yet on a sweltering mid-morning at the APC Park in eastern Kolkata, she punched and kicked with all her might. The first-ever kickboxing championship for girls at the neighborhood level, the Meyeder Para Kickboxing Championship, ...
The Wimbledon Women's Quarterfinal Round Is Going To Be A Lot Of Fun
Stocked with players new and old, the world No. 2 and the world No. 87, multi-Grand Slam champions, and those with everything to prove, the 2017 Wimbledon women’s quarterfinals are delightfully uncertain....
Lightning Take The Cowards' Way Out On Tampa Confederate Monument
There are two schools of thought on asking sports teams to weigh in on political issues. On the one hand, who cares: They’re just sports teams. But on the other hand, it’s really not that hard to give a bit of public support for basic decency. That’s why the Tampa Bay Lightning come off looking pret...
The FBI Investigated Bobby Knight For Groping Women At A Spy Agency
The Washington Post has a scoop about famed basketball coach and terrible person Bobby Knight. On July 10, 2015, Knight was curiously invited to give a speech at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), an arm of the Department of Defense that analyzes imagery of the Earth’s surface in ord...
Why Is Ashley Wagner Apologizing For Her Sport In <i>ESPN The Magazine</i>'s Body Issue?
I think figure skating has this stereotype as a sport for little girls—that we are these pretty porcelain dolls ......
Women In Wrestling Have Taken A Hard Road To Get To Where They Are Now
Recently, Netflix released the first season of GLOW, a dramedy based on the production of Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, the comedic late ’80s women’s wrestling promotion that was, ever so briefly, a smash hit in syndication. Many reviews have focused on how a gifted, majority-female cast and creativ...
Who Is This Guy The Kings Just Made The Highest-Paid Rookie In NBA History?
With the 27th pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, the Phoenix Suns selected Serbian guard Bogdan Bogdanovic (not to be confused with Wizards forward Bojan Bogdanovic or famed Serbian architect Bogdan Bogdanovic). Three years later, Bogdanovic is finally coming to play in the NBA, reportedly agreeing a three...
The Orioles Have A Shot At Tying A Strange Record Tonight
The Baltimore Orioles have allowed five or more runs in each of their last 19 games, and tonight, they have a chance to tie the all-time record for most consecutive games with five or more runs allowed. ...
Here's A Fun Story About How George Springer Came To Use Mookie Betts's Little Bat
Red Sox star Mookie Betts uses a weird bat that’s gotten a lot of attention over the last few seasons. Instead of the normal knob that is standard on wooden bats, the bottom of Betts’s looks more like an axe handle; logic is that the more streamlined handle leads to fewer blisters on the palm....
Will Semen Destroy Your Shower Drain?
This is a story about semen and fact-checking....
10 Years Ago, WWE Killed Vince McMahon In Its Most Ridiculous Storyline Ever
When you watch WWE programming for a long time, certain patterns emerge, ranging from production quirks to how matches are laid out to certain tropes that consistently recur in the storytelling. One of these is the way WWE lets show its utter contempt for its audience. Hell, it showed up recently wh...
Report: Kings Considering Dumb Trade To Move Up In The Draft
The Sacramento Kings—who won 32 games and traded their franchise center for what essentially amounts to a pair of rookies—face a crucial summer. The team will be very bad next year, although they have a pair of first-round picks in this year’s draft to develop. Thanks to a disastrous trade with Phil...
Terrible Columnist Argues Bill Cosby Is Not A Rapist Because She Liked <i>The Cosby Show</i>
Without hyperbole, we have found one of the worst major-newspaper columns since Mark Whicker left the yard....
The Kevin Johnson Pie Saga Rolls On, At Taxpayer Expense
Sacramento’s not done with the Kevin Johnson soap opera after all: Sean Thompson, who hit the ex-NBA superstar in the face with a coconut cream pie at a September charity event and immediately took what the public now knows was a heinous physical beating from the disgraced now-former mayor, is goin...
How Tall Would The Stanley Cup Be If The NHL Never Removed Anyone’s Name?
The NHL season is over, and the Pittsburgh Penguins have won their second straight Stanley Cup. They beat the Nashville Predators in six games, and so now their names will be engraved on the Stanley Cup for all eternity....
Maikel Franco's Bat Causes Lengthy Delay In Atlanta
Philadelphia third baseman Maikel Franco, like many of his Phillies teammates, found a new way to screw up a baseball game tonight as he hurled his bat into the backstop netting, lodging it there and leading to a series of pathetic attempts to retrieve it....