The Clippers woke up today from a nightmare game in Los Angeles in this Wednesday’s embarrassing defeat against the Mavericks in Game 5 of the postseason’s first round. Now the Texan team lead the series 3-2 and head back to Dallas for Game 6, mostly due to another perplexing performance from former league MVP James…
The draws for the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Finals and Play-offs were made this week at the ITF Headquarters in London, with the 8 nations who won qualifying ties played in mid-April joining already-qualified defending champions Canada, host nation Spain, 2023 runners-up Italy, and Czechia, who receive a wild-card. Australia, Germany, Great…
By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday April 30, 2024 Daniil Medvedev may not be known for doing his best work on clay, but he’s done more than enough on his least favorite surface to join a very lofty club. On Tuesday in Madrid, the Russian battled past Alexander Bublik, 7-6(3), 6-4, to become the…
Just after Jalen Brunson powered his team through a 97-92 triumph in Philadelphia and took another step towards the playoff’s second round at 3-1 in the series, he told the press he would remember this moment forever. “I’ll look back when I retire,” he said. “Seriously. It’s great right now, it helped us get a…
Juan Martin del Potro spoke about Rafael Nadal recently, paying tribute to the Spaniard for his unique passion for competing. The list of players who were inspired by Nadal is long, and the list of players who admire him is even longer. One of them is former ATP player Del Potro, who battled the Spaniard…
37 Manchester United huffed and puffed and eventually conceded yet another late goal and were held to a 1-1 draw by 19th-placed Burnley at Old Trafford on Saturday. The midweek win against last-placed Sheffield United raised hopes that the team would ditch manager Erik ten Hag’s chaos ball and would employ a more possession-based approach…
From now on, maybe we should ignore the numbers until Juan Soto is leading the league in walks. Soto has had the highest walk rate in baseball in each of the last four seasons. And he’s close this season! He’s got 21 walks (tied for first) and a 17.4% walk rate (tied for third). But…
Fred Vuich, Courtesy USGA This article, first published in Global Golf Post on May 11, 2020, has been updated to coincide with this week’s George L. Coleman Invitational at Seminole Golf Club in Juno Beach, Florida. There is so much to commend Seminole, a stylish and extremely under-the-radar golf club that is the site of…
As part of a small UK contingent that headed to the Corales Puntacana Championship this week, we wanted to know what time Alex Fitzpatrick was playing in the Wednesday Pro-Am. Fitzpatrick is playing on the PGA Tour for just the fourth time in the Dominican Republic as he looks to forge a path of his…
Iga Swiatek has now spent 100 weeks at the top of tennis, and she reflected on that in a short social media post. The Polish player took over as world number one on April 3rd, 2022. Many at that time pointed out that she took over the spot only because Ashleigh Barty retired from tennis,…
