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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Serena Williams lost in her return to tennis after giving birth in September, beaten by French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko in an exhibition Saturday and still unsure if she will defend her Australian Open title. Williams called it a “wonderful” match despite the defeat — she took the […]

Serena Williams is returning to the game! After winning the Australian Open in February while 8 weeks pregnant, giving birth to her daughter in September and getting married, she’ll be returning to the game. Metro.Co.Uk reports that the 23 grand slam winner will return to the game on Saturday, December 30 in the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in […]

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  It’s Christmas time in the city and while that means gifts and presents for the kids and for some of the adults. It also means family time and good food. But for the sports fans out there, it’s also a sports-a-thon of some of the top teams in both major sports leagues with a […]

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Tiger Woods is embarking on his latest comeback without a swing coach. Woods said Friday on Twitter that since fusion surgery on his lower back in April, he has been relearning his body and his golf swing by relying on feel and the previous three years of work with Dallas-based Chris Como. “For now, I […]

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The tennis star faced a wrongful death lawsuit.

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Serena Williams is a forced to be reckoned with, but that’s no secret. The Compton native has 23 Grand Slam titles, 319 weeks at the top, and an endless list of other accolades to her name. Even with all of those achievements, come 2019, the tennis superstar will have another honor to add, and this […]

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the latest Beverly Hills-dwelling celeb to get hit by burglars. The thievery was reported to police on Tuesday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Police said the break-in occurred between Nov. 21-28. Items reported stolen include luggage, sunglasses and other accessories, police added. The boxer was not at home at the time of the […]

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Olympic champion gymnast Gabby Douglas says she is among the group of athletes sexually abused by a former team doctor. Douglas, the 2012 Olympic all-around champion and a three-time gold medalist, wrote in an Instagram post Tuesday that she waited so long to reveal the abuse by Larry Nassar because she was part of a […]

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Nigeria will participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics games in PyeongChang after their women's team qualified in the bobsled category for the first time.

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MIAMI (AP) — Fernando “Ferdie” Pacheco, “The Fight Doctor” who served as Muhammad Ali’s ringside physician, has died. He was 89. Pacheco’s daughter, Tina Louise Pacheco, told The Associated Press that he died Thursday morning at his Miami home after prolonged illness. Pacheco was born in Tampa and opened a practice in Miami after earning […]

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Paps caught Venus Williams Thursday morning as she entered a Florida lawyer’s office for her deposition in the lawsuit stemming from that fatal car crash back in June. The tennis star will sit for questions about the crash that killed 78-year-old Jerome Barson. Williams agreed last month to be deposed in the wrongful death lawsuit […]