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Which Athlete Could Become President? Three Most Presidential Athletes in 2024November 5th is the United States Presidential election, so we tanked the top three most presidential athletes in 2024. Who would get your vote?...

Coco Gauff-Aryna Sabalenka is tennis' best rivalryWomen’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...

Taking the Daniil Medvedev ride at the Australian OpenMost of my life, I have found tennis very easy and yet very hard to watch. It’s easy in that it’s a beautiful sport to gaze upon, the players’ ballet-like movements and the steady rhythm of the sound of the ball hitting the racket and then the court over and over can lull one into a lovely state of ...

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...

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, here are some of the best HBCU athletes to make it in the pros

We’ve already highlighted some of the famous Black celebrities who are HBCU alumni, but what about the athletes?...

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...

IDIOT OF THE YEAR: More dumbasses (Nos. 20-11)

WHY? Why must professional athletics function as such a powerful magnet for stupid, impetuous people? Ugh....

The case <i>against</i> Deion Sanders as Sportsperson of the Year

We are on the brink of our last full college football Saturday slate before bowl season. So, it’s apropos that Deion Sanders’ overhype earned him Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year. After announcing Sanders as the recipient of the honor, Sports Illustrated is dodging tomatoes from the Int...