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Panel: NYPD Officer Used Excessive Force When Wrongly Arresting James Blake
An independent investigation by the Civilian Complaint Review Board determined that the NYPD used excessive force when officers wrongly arrested former tennis player James Blake in September while conducting a credit card fraud sting....
Flavia Pennetta Wins U.S. Open, Promptly Announces Her Retirement
Flavia Pennetta took down Serena slayer Roberta Vinci in straight sets 7-6, 6-2 to win the U.S. Open final, the first singles Grand Slam title of her career. Immediately afterward the 33-year-old used her acceptance speech to announce her retirement from professional tennis. ...
NYPD Releases Video Of Officer Taking Down Former Pro Tennis Player James Blake
The NYPD has released video of officer James Frascatore taking down former pro tennis player James Blake outside of a Manhattan hotel on Wednesday. It shows Blake leaning against the hotel when Frascatore throws him to the ground. Blake didn’t appear to flee or even move as Frascatore approached him...
Roberta Vinci's Post-Match Interview Is An All-Time Great
It’s never easy being the anonymous athlete who knocks off a fan-favorite opponent in front of a national audience that wanted nothing to do with you, but I’ve never seen anyone handle being in that position better than Roberta Vinci....
The NYPD Sting That Wrongly Arrested James Blake Seems Like A Huge Mess
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton has personally apologized to James Blake after an officer tackled and roughed up the former tennis pro outside his Manhattan hotel Wednesday, but more details are leaking about the identity theft sting that nabbed the wrong black guy, and it looks like a clusterfuck....
Report: Cops Tackle, Handcuff James Blake After Mistaking Him For Identity Theft Suspect
Former No. 4 ranked tennis player James Blake was tackled and handcuffed by five plainclothes officers outside his hotel in Manhattan today, according to the New York Daily News. The cops misidentified Blake for a suspect in an identity theft ring....
Serena Prevails Over Venus In Three Sets, Advances To US Open Semifinals
Despite how obviously great Serena and Venus Williams are, their Grand Slam match-ups haven’t always been thrilling tennis, with the sisters subduing their emotions and not always playing at their best. But with Serena on the march to a historic calendar year Grand Slam and Venus amidst a mini late-...
Here Are 7 Faces Andy Murray Made Last Night
The loudest burst from the stands in Flushing Meadows last night came just before the third-set tiebreaker, when a stadium full mostly of Americans shouted An-Dee Murr-Eee clap clap clap-clap-clap for the Brit just minutes after he laid a vulgar, impassioned speech to the chair umpire about how upse...
"It May Be Rabid": U.S. Open Match Interrupted By Squirrel
It’s not the first time rodents have disrupted a major event in New York....
Jack Sock Down
American Jack Sock had to retire in the middle of the fourth set against Belgian Ruben Bemelmans at the U.S. Open today. Sock’s legs cramped up, and trainers had to sit him down before he was eventually helped off the court. Bemelmans automatically advanced to the third round, and will play Stan Waw...
Victoria Azarenka Hits Chair Umpire With A Solid High-School Burn
During her U.S. Open match against Lucie Hradecka yesterday, Victoria Azarenka found herself in a disagreement with the chair umpire. She handled herself like a jock seasoned in the art of making band kids feel like lame nerds....
Drake And Serena Williams Enjoy Themselves And Each Other At Fancy Cincinnati Restaurant
The Yelp page of Cincinnati Italian trattoria Sotto boasts that it’s a restaurant for “casual intimacy and communal romance,” so it makes sense that Drake and Serena Williams were spotted at a table essentially fucking with their clothes on....
Quit Smoking Weed Around Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic is fed up, man. Right after he took the first set from Jeremy Chardy in yesterday’s Rogers Cup semifinal in Montreal, Djokovic complained to the official that he could smell someone smoking the devil’s lettuce in the arena....
This Is The Meanest Canada Has Ever Been To Anybody
After talking shit about Stan Wawrinka’s girlfriend last night, Nick Kyrgios took on John Isner in the third round of the Rogers Cup today. The crowd in Montreal was well aware of his comments, and booed him when he walked onto the court. Kyrgios lost to Isner in two sets, and fans gave an encore as...
Nick Kyrgios To Stan Wawrinka: "Kokkinakis Banged Your Girlfriend"
There’s trash talk and then there’s TRASH TALK, and Nick Kyrgios engaged in the latter tonight. Taking on Stan Wawrinka in the second round of Rogers Cup action in Montreal, Kyrgios muttered under his breath* “Kokkinakis banged your girlfriend” to Wawrinka, referring to 76th-ranked Thanasi Kokkinaki...
Clueless Reporter To Tomas Berdych, Who Lost: How Did It Feel To Win?
Sixth seed Tomas Berdych went down in straight sets to Gilles Simon at Wimbledon today. That was news to—oh god—the very first reporter to ask Berdych a question at his press conference....
Nick Kyrgios Had A Meltdown At Wimbledon
After receiving a warning about swearing in the second set of his fourth-round match at Wimbledon, Nick Kyrgios stopped caring....
Tennis Player CoCo Vandeweghe Thinks Carmelo Anthony Is Soft As Hell
I have no idea why pro tennis player CoCo Vandeweghe was asked for her opinion on Carmelo Anthony and the Knicks, other than the fact that her uncle is former NBA player and GM Kiki Vandeweghe, but I sure am glad it happened. ...