USATSI There are stretches in everybody’s Big 12 schedule that are easier than others — but there are no easy stretches. Tough home games are often followed by super-tough road games, and the past three days for Kansas illustrated this perfectly. On Saturday, the Jayhawks upset a Houston team that remains atop the NET rankings…
Novak Djokovic dealt with some injury woes leading up to the 2024 Australian Open, but according to his coach, Goran Ivanisevic, he was fully healthy against Jannik Sinner. Djokovic’s 2024 Australian Open campaign was somewhat weird. It wasn’t that weirder than some of his previous ones, but things never looked right. From the opening match…
Mauricio Pochettino refrained from criticising the match officials after his Chelsea side suffered a humbling 4-1 defeat against Liverpool at Anfield. The Blues found themselves trailing at halftime due to goals from Diogo Jota and Conor Bradley, with Dominik Szoboszlai adding a third shortly after the interval for the hosts. Although Christopher Nkunku briefly revived…
By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Monday, January 29, 2024 Novak Djokovic has dispensed many lessons to opponents in winning 10 Australian Open titles. Reflecting on his four-set loss to world No. 1 Djokovic in the AO quarterfinals last week, Taylor Fritz said he learned an important lesson: His quality of play is strong, but his conditioning…
Even though the Celtics are top of the Eastern Conference, they were no match for the red-hot Clippers and Jrue Holiday has explained where it all went wrong for the C’s. Boston have an impressive 35-11 record on the season, yet in their last ten games, have lost to other top teams Milwaukee, Denver and…
(Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images) After dominating the competition throughout the NFL regular season and putting on a show against the Houston Texans in the Divisional Round of the playoffs, the Baltimore Ravens came into the AFC Championship Game as the favorites to beat the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. The Ravens…
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — For two-plus hours, more than 12,500 black- and/or white-clad Providence fans had been booing and jeering and taunting and sneering and hectoring and heckling their previously beloved and currently detested former coach. But as the minutes whittled away in the second half, an unease settled over the thousands. To the surprise of…
Coco Gauff made it to the Australian Open semi-final but wasn’t good enough to go any further, admitting honestly after the match that there is a lot to improve upon. Gauff had high hopes of making the Australian Open final, as she played a player she bested a few months ago in the US Open…
Carlos Alcaraz‘s bid to win a third Grand Slam title shuddered to a halt on Wednesday in the quarterfinal of the Australian Open. The second-seeded Alcaraz lost to in-form Alexander Zverev in four sets, which ended his interest in the tournament for another year. The Spaniard did not ponder the result with disappointment but instead…
By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday January 25, 2024 Coco Gauff’s final Grand Slam as a teenager ended in disappointment, but the American is trying to see the positives after falling to Aryna Sabalenka 7-6(2), 6-4 on in the Australian Open semifinals on Thursday night in Melbourne. “Overall a positive tournament,” Gauff told reporters…
