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It’s Friday, and what better way to end the workweek than with a little U.S. Open action headlined by Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal in the prime-time evening draw? The third round is underway after the first two rounds saw multiple top players bounced from the tournament in Flushing Meadows, New York, including last year’s men’s runner-up, Kei Nishikori, Gilles Simon and a...
Published: September 3, 2015
When conversations on racism in sports arise, rebuttals often point to the popularity of beloved black male stars such as Michael Jordan, LeBron James or Russell Wilson. Bias against black men in sports—and any social progress in that area—has been well documented. Less familiar is the unique brand of discrimination African-American women are subjected to: anti-black misogyny. This is the...
Published: August 28, 2015
Peter Malnati learned a damp lesson in the importance of occasionally cutting your losses and just taking the drop this week at a Web.com Tour event. Malnati, a 28-year-old professional golfer from New Castle, Indiana, was playing in the first round of the WinCo Foods Portland Open on Thursday, when a shot of his dropped into a spot right on the mucky cusp of the water along the No....
Published: August 25, 2015
Novak Djokovic is a tennis paradox. To illustrate what this means, the 2015 U.S. Open will be yet another example of his thorough dominance or inescapable failure. He’s indestructible but vulnerable, which is a little bizarre considering that he is one of the top five players of the Open era at the absolute peak of his career. There’s little to add about the way Djokovic has mostly crushed...
Published: August 19, 2015
The Wyndham Championship doesn’t typically carry so much media coverage. Placed a week after the year’s final major and a week before the FedEx Cup gets underway, many of the world’s top golfers decide to use this as one last chance to get a breather. On paper, that’s certainly the case this year. Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Jason Day and the entire top 10 will be sitting...
Published: August 18, 2015
Belinda Bencic‘s upset win over Serena Williams in the semifinals of the Rogers Cup in Toronto propelled the 18-year-old into the spotlight. A victory over Simona Halep in the final lifted Bencic to a career-high No. 12 WTA Tour ranking. It also earned her a second WTA title. On Tuesday, Bencic defeated No. 11 Angelique Kerber, 7-5, 6-3, at the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati. It’s...
Published: August 16, 2015
The 2015 PGA Championship is shaping up to be a tremendous conclusion of this year’s major season as Jordan Spieth and Jason Day will battle it out in the final group Sunday at Whistling Straits. Through 54 holes, Day owns a slim two-shot lead on Spieth, with Justin Rose and Branden Grace three shots back: A double-bogey on No. 15 aside, Day was fantastic on the back nine during the third round....
Published: August 15, 2015
If Jordan Spieth wants to make history by winning his third major of the year at the 2015 PGA Championship, he has some catching up to do. Despite the fact he’s sitting at six under after two rounds—36 holes that spilled over into Saturday morning for several golfers after inclement weather halted play Friday evening—Spieth is five shots back of halfway-mark leader Matt Jones. The...
Published: August 15, 2015
With two rounds nearly in the books at the 2015 PGA Championship, golf fans are getting a much better idea of who has a real shot at winning the last major tournament of the 2015 season. Rain showers forced PGA Tour officials to postpone the conclusion of the round until Saturday morning. PGA Tour Media announced play will commence at 7 a.m. CT. Here’s a look at the current leaderboard....
Published: August 14, 2015
The 2015 PGA Championship nearly reached the halfway mark at Whistling Straits on Friday before steady rain showers forced a postponement of the second round. Neither Jason Day nor Matt Jones completed their rounds, but they own a share of the lead at nine under. The top of the leaderboard remains pretty compact, with nine other golfers within at least three shots of Day and Jones: The timing couldn’t...