Carlos Alcaraz has been in a league of his own over the past few weeks, and the same was true in his fourth-round match at the 2024 Miami Open. Taking Lorenzo Musetti was never going to be easy for the Spaniard, especially after the Italian produced a great performance to outplay Ben Shelton. Still, Alcaraz…
It was unofficially Reed Sheppard week in college basketball after Kentucky’s star freshman turned in a heroic performance in Tuesday’s victory at Mississippi State, rose in NBA mock drafts and drew in-depth national attention. But in an 111-102 win over Arkansas on Saturday, the No. 16 Wildcats showed what makes them dangerous as a team,…
Carl Weathers, who played Apollo Creed in the Rocky films and had roles in Predator, Happy Gilmore, and The Mandalorian, died at 76 years old. His manager, Matt Luber, said Weathers died on Thursday, and his family issued a statement saying he died “peacefully in his sleep.” Before Weathers became a star in Hollywood, he…
The night matches on Friday at the Australian Open produced a great deal of drama, compensating for several of the day matches that had appeared somewhat pedestrian, and it was Russian qualifier Maria Timofeeva and 9th seed Barbora Krejcikova who emerged from tight battles to head into the second week. Beatriz was handling the pressure…
