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In honor of Martin Luther King Day, here are some of the best HBCU athletes to make it in the prosWe’ve already highlighted some of the famous Black celebrities who are HBCU alumni, but what about the athletes?...

Coco Gauff will write her own storyWhen Coco Gauff beat Venus Williams at Wimbledon in 2019, a flood of expectations followed considering she was 15, American, Black, and had just ousted tennis royalty. The talent and potential was obvious enough, yet there are too many variables and unknowns to account for that calling anything a fo...

Coco Gauff is proof that tennis is wack without Black womenThey used to not want Althea Gibson’s “kind” around. Now we don’t know where tennis would be without them. That’s how you ace an opportunity....

Ben Shelton feels limitless

There’s been a lament, until recently, that on the men’s side American tennis just had a ceiling. And that ceiling wasn’t anywhere close to winning a Grand Slam. Which is a little unfair to Andy Roddick, who without the existence of Roger Federer would have been a multi-Wimbledon champion and probab...

After 30 years (!!), it is finally time for Venus Williams to call it a career

Unlike at this time last year, the central figure of the US Open isn’t a Williams sister. Serena’s matches were all appointment television, maybe because of the known stakes, being one of tennis’ all-time great’s last event. And Flushing lost its luster after Serena’s third-round exit, until the sta...

Spanish FA President Luis Rubiales is a creep

Update Aug. 24: According to multiple reports, Luis Rubiales plans to resign....

Wimbledon brings Venus back showing the Williams sisters still own tennis

Athletic greatness is proven by performance. Athletic immorality is defined by how debilitated your sport becomes when you aren’t around. Tennis doesn’t know what to do without the Williams sisters and it’s why Wimbledon keeps bringing them back. ...

Billie Jean King reminds us how far women's sports have come — even if the progress has been slow

Billie Jean King and Ilana Kloss both spoke at Seton Hall University last week. The discussion kept coming back to money — from the one dollar that started the WTA Tour back in 1970, to the $50 million to buy a National Women’s Soccer League team, to the ratings for live women’s sports that keep goi...