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Serena Williams is headed to her 30th Grand Slam singles final after beating Julia Goerges in the 2018 Wimbledon semi-final on Thursday. Her win sets the stage for a redux of the 2016 Wimbledon final in which she defeated Angelique Kerber, who will also be her 2018 opponent. It was an especially sweet victory for […]

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You’ll be hard-pressed to find an athlete, anywhere, who’s ever had a weekend like Arike Ogunbowale just did. On Friday night in Columbus, Ohio, the Notre Dame junior hit an incredible pull-up jump shot in the final seconds to give the Fighting Irish a 91-89 overtime win against Connecticut in the national semifinals; the Huskies […]

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(SYDNEY) — A media watchdog has ruled that a cartoon of tennis star Serena Williams, which attracted global condemnation after being published by Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper, was not in breach of the Australian Press Council’s standards of practice. The depiction of Williams by cartoonist Mark Knight last September showed her reacting angrily to her […]

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Zion? No!!! Please. Not Zion. Even if you’re one of the biggest Duke basketball haters on the planet — we’re aware there are many of you — there was only one proper response to what transpired 33 seconds into Wednesday night’s clash between Duke and North Carolina at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C. And […]

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U.S. figure skater Mirai Nagasu made history at the 2018 Winter Olympics on Sunday night when she became the first American woman to land the challenging triple axel jump in Olympic competition. And her Olympic journey isn’t over — she will compete next in the women’s individual figure skating competition on Feb. 21. The triple […]

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Marie-France Dubreuil and her husband, Patrice Lauzon, along with their partner Romain Haguenauer, could be in the enviable position of seeing their ice dance students sweep the medals podium at Gangneung Ice Arena in the ice dance long program on Monday night. Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir lead the 2018 Winter Olympics after the […]

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Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir did it again. The longtime Canadian ice dancing pair, who have been skating together since they were kids, beat their own record Sunday night in PyeongChang to get the highest score ever in the short program. Moir and Virtue scored an 83.67 for their riveting short program — topping their […]

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