Coco Gauff has added another historic accolade to her decorated resume. Gauff earned her latest achievement on Sunday when she won the China Open final with a 6-1 6-3 sweep against Czech star Karolina Muchová. The 20-year-old tennis star, who now owns eight WTA titles, became the first American to win the China Open since […]
The WNBA semi-finals are well underway. The New York Liberty have a two games to zero lead over the Las Vegas Aces. With the first two games of this series emanating from Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, we were treated to more playoff basketball in NYC. Nothing is more fitting then than having Spike Lee in
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The 2024 Paris Olympics proved that women are dominating athletes. Stars like Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles, Annette Echikunwoke, and many others had history-making accomplishments that signaled significant shifts in support of female athletes, particularly for Black competitors. Here’s more about some of the most iconic Black women athletes of all time and their unparalleled effects
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NASCAR is running an unlawful monopoly on the sport of stock car racing, alleges a suit filed on Wednesday by stock car teams 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports against the sanctioning body and its CEO Jim France. 23XI is, of course, the team co-owned by NBA legend Michael Jordan and racer Denny Hamlin. This
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The Los Angeles Lakers made a significant move on Friday by announcing that they have hired Dr. Vanessa Brooks as their new head athletic trainer. Brooks, a trailblazer in the NBA, previously served the Oklahoma City Thunder for five seasons. She made history as the first Black woman to be dual-certified as an athletic trainer
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By Julia Busiek, UC Newsroom University of California President Michael V. Drake, M.D., has awarded the UC Presidential Medal to hoops legend, best-selling author, philanthropist and UCLA alum Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The university’s highest honor, the award recognizes Mr. Abdul-Jabbar’s transformative advocacy for education, health and social justice, his steadfast support of his alma mater and his
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The WNBA semifinals are upon us, and on one side, we have familiar rivals taking center stage. The New York Liberty and Las Vegas Aces are set to go head to head in a WNBA Finals rematch from last year. Their series last year went four games in which the Aces prevailed. With a classic
The rivalry between Tracy Cortez and Ailin Perez has been reignited in a fiery exchange after Perez missed weight for her UFC Paris bout against Darya Zheleznyakova. The Argentine fighter tipped the scale at 136.6 pounds, 0.6 pounds above the bantamweight limit for a non-title fight. Perez’s weight struggles come just months after she had
The Chicago Sky has fired head coach Teresa Weatherspoon after one season with the team. The news was reported by the Chicago Sun-Times, and the outlet cited multiple league sources confirming that the Sky dismissed Weatherspoon from its basketball operations staff. Weatherspoon’s coaching background and team performance Weatherspoon, 58, a Naismith Hall of Famer and
On Sept. 12, Miami Dolphins’ Tua Tagovailoa suffered yet another concussion while running into the Buffalo Bills’ Damar Hamlin. Tua, who has had a solid history of concussions in the NFL, ended up with his hands in the fencing position after his fall. That’s never a welcomed visual after a head injury. And with these
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