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Facebook Tweet Email Link As she approached 30, American tennis player Sloane Stephens was faced with a dilemma. She wanted to continue with her career – to win titles and climb up the rankings – but also hoped to start a family at some point in the future. Rather than retire early or take an extended break from the sport, Stephens decided to freeze her eggs on two occasions. For her peers, that made her something of a trailblazer. “I’m always the one that they come to to be like, ‘What happened? What did you do? Who did you use?’”…
Facebook Tweet Email Link The thought of the top men’s and women’s singles players teaming up is one that has often intrigued tennis fans around the world. It’s part of the reason the mixed doubles event sometimes draws so much interest during the Olympics, with Taylor Fritz and Coco Gauff and Daniil Medvedev and Mirra Andreeva forming two star-studded pairings at Paris 2024. It is also one of the few opportunities men and women have to directly compete against each other in professional sports. Now, the US Open – the fourth and final grand slam of the season – is…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Carlos Alcaraz won the Cincinnati Open title in anticlimactic circumstances as rival Jannik Sinner retired due to illness just 23 minutes into the match. Alcaraz raced into a 5-0 lead in the first set of Monday’s final, the 14th matchup between the world’s two best players, when an out-of-sorts and emotional Sinner announced that he was unable to continue. “I’m super, super sorry to disappoint you,” Sinner said to the crowd in his on-court interview. “From yesterday, I didn’t feel great. I thought that I would improve during the night, but it came up worse. “I…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Norman, OK AP — Oklahoma is offering fans a chance to attend postgame press conferences, but it won’t be cheap. It’s one of the “Sooner Magic Memories” offerings the program has created to give fans greater access this season. The cost for two people to sit in on the media session after the Oklahoma-Michigan nonconference showdown on September 6 is $692.11. For the Southeastern Conference home opener September 20 against Auburn, it’s $576.86. “Get exclusive postgame media access for you and one guest and see where real-time reactions unfold,” the advertisement says. “Hear OU coaches and…
Facebook Tweet Email Link American golfer Ben Griffin got the shakes at the BMW Championship – though it wasn’t necessarily because of nerves, but rather due to swallowing a “large rock” of creatine. World No. 17 Griffin said that he “started getting super shaky” and “felt like I had tremors” on Sunday after accidentally swallowing a large amount of the supplement. Creatine “contributes to rapid energy production and may enhance power or speed bursts requiring short periods of anaerobic activity,” according to Harvard Health, and usage of the supplement is common among gym enthusiasts as there is evidence it “can…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Iowa City, Iowa AP — The US gymnastics world was only just recovering from a devastating sexual abuse scandal when a promising young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to take a job in 2018 at an elite academy known for training Olympic champions. Liang “Chow” Qiao, the owner of Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in West Des Moines, thought highly enough of his new hire, Sean Gardner, to put him in charge of the club’s premier junior event and to coach some of its most promising girls. But four years later, Gardner was gone from…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Mexico City AP — Boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. has been deported to Mexico, where he’s wanted for alleged cartel ties, following his arrest in the U.S. for overstaying his visa and lying on a green card application. Chávez was handed over by authorities and admitted to a prison outside of the city of Hermosillo, in the northern state of Sonora, an official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Tuesday because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed the news at her daily press conference. “I…
Facebook Tweet Email Link A former Miami Heat security officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to transporting and transferring millions of dollars’ worth of team memorabilia, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. Marcos Tomas Perez, 62, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty at a hearing Tuesday, according to the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida, admitting to the facts of the case. “He’s depressed, naturally, but he accepts responsibility for his behavior and we’re gonna work through this issue in his life,” his attorney Robert Buschel said after the hearing, according to NBC Miami, which Buschel later confirmed to…
Facebook Tweet Email Link A 47-year-old man, who was arrested after the Premier League’s season opener on Friday due to alleged racist abuse, has been banned from attending any regulated soccer match in the United Kingdom. The incident occurred during Friday’s match between Liverpool and Bournemouth, with broadcast video showing a fan engaging with Bournemouth player Antoine Semenyo, while the forward went to retrieve a ball for an impending throw-in. The fan can be seen shouting and pointing at the winger just before the Ghanaian restarted play. Local police said Saturday that a man had been arrested following reports racist…
Facebook Tweet Email Link The much-talked-about pairing of Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz fell to an early exit in the US Open’s mixed doubles competition on Tuesday, losing their first-round match and failing to win a set. Raducanu and Alcaraz, who have both lifted the US Open singles title on this court, lost 4-2, 4-2 against top seeds Jack Draper and Jessica Pegula, their partnership lasting just 50 minutes inside Arthur Ashe Stadium. The highlight of their short-lived campaign came in the second set when Alcaraz hunted down a wide and dipping backhand from Draper, swiping it down the line…