MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Like the 21-year-old she is, Naomi Osaka stepped into Rod Laver Arena for the Australian Open final with a cellphone in her right hand and music in both ears. The headphones she wore carried the swirling brass, bouncing beat and boastful lyrics of Jay Rock’s “Win,” the same pre-match song Osaka […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Serena Williams was one point — just one — from quite a comeback victory in the Australian Open quarterfinals when she turned her left ankle. Everything unraveled from there. In a startling reversal and result, Williams wasted four match points along the way to dropping the last six games of a […]
Muhammad Ali remains one of the greatest sports figures of all time who made an impact beyond boxing that still resonates today. Ali was born on this day in 1942. Ali was born Cassius Clay in Louisville, Ky. He started boxing at 12 boxing after his bicycle was stolen and a police officer offered him […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Serena Williams jumped straight back in where she left off at the Australian Open, returning for the first time since winning the title in 2017 when she was pregnant with her first child. Williams conceded only five points in the first set and was completely clinical in a 6-0, 6-2 win […]
These days, most people know George Foreman as a boxing analyst and wildly successful pitchman, not the once-fearsome boxer that took on some of the sport’s best. Today is Foreman’s 70th birthday. Foreman was born in Texas in 1949 and raised in Houston’s Fifth Ward section. In an autobiography, Foreman says that he lived a […]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tomlin doesn’t want to say Antonio Brown bailed on the Pittsburgh Steelers. The longtime head coach is not ruling it out either. The star wide receiver went radio silent in the days before the team’s regular-season finale against Cincinnati last Sunday, in essence abandoning the club in what Tomlin described as […]
Deion Sanders was at the prime of his life in the mid-late 90’s. He had won two Super Bowls and appeared in a World Series. He was rich, had become a father and even released an album. But as reported by The Undefeated, in 1997, he drove his car off a cliff in a suicide attempt. The trouble […]
She showed up in Paris wearing a black catsuit, a reminder that nobody can command the Grand Slam stage quite like Serena Williams. She reached the finals at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, proving again how well she can play no matter how little she practices. Williams didn’t win those or any other tournaments, which […]
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Strong. Sophisticated. Sexy. Like the tennis champ herself, Serena Williams’ fashion line is all about power moves and she’s hoping it will also inspire woman to find their own voice. “I want everyone to be able to do that and to step into their power,” she said Wednesday night at […]
Wally Triplett achieved a number of firsts during his collegiate and professional football career, including becoming the first African-American starter for Penn State University. The gridiron pioneer passed last Thursday. Wallace Triplett was born April 18, 1926 in the Philadelphia suburb of La Mott. He was reportedly offered a scholarship to the University of Miami […]
DETROIT (AP) — Wally Triplett, the trailblazing running back who was one of the first African-Americans drafted by an NFL team, has died. He was 92. The Detroit Lions and Penn State announced Triplett’s death Thursday. Triplett was the third African-American selected in the 1949 draft, but he was the first of those draftees to […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant has been dropped from the jury of an animated film festival after calls for the former NBA star’s ouster over a 2003 rape allegation. Eric Beckman is the CEO of the organization behind the Animation Is Film Festival. He wrote in a statement Wednesday that the festival’s stakeholders decided […]
