The world’s third-ranked tennis player and the NFL team that her family owns will both try to reach the pinnacle of their sports beginning this weekend.
The Bills ranked among the league leaders in wins this season and are short-listed amid the favorites to win the Super Bowl. Led by a quarterback who spent much of the season undertaking a convincing impression of an MVP candidate, the team sometimes presented football at its most elevated, an 11-man braid of beauty, a symphonic whole, a team greater than the sum of its component parts.
But not always.
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If you’re going to be in Melbourne for the first major of the year, Jon Wertheim has some advice on how to have the best possible time.
Clive James, the formidable—and recently departed—critic traced the fundamental differences between the United States and Australia, his native land. “Superficially, Australia is like America; and yet profoundly different….the differences reside precisely in the discrepancy of scale, which finally dictates that Australia, short of physical power, must rely on influence instead.
It seems like Kyler Murray is definitely not a popular guy in the locker room.
The Arizona Cardinals QB has faced plenty of criticism over the past season, and it’s not ending now that Kliff Kingsbury got fired.
In fact, it seems to be getting worse.
Cardinals player rips Kyler Murray. (Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images)
Previously, a report came out that people within the organization were tired of dealing with the QB’s attitude.
“It was like they created a monster,” an unnamed Cardinals veteran told Michael Silver.
LSU is stepping up security around its gymnastics meets following an incident involving disruptive fans of Tigers star Olivia Dunne last Friday.
LeBron James and Lakers head coach Darvin Ham expressed their frustration with a no-call on Tim Hardaway Jr.’s defense of a potential game-winning 3 by Troy Brown Jr. at the end of regulation Thursday night.
Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy was found not guilty on Friday of six counts of rape and one of sexual assault.
Angel City FC selected 18-year-old forward Alyssa Thompson as the first overall selection Thursday in the 2023 NWSL draft.
The Patriots announced Thursday that they will begin interviewing candidates to fill the role of offensive coordinator and that they have begun extension talks with assistant Jerod Mayo.
Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom is a wanted terrorist in his home country of Turkey. And the Turkish government appears to be serious about capturing him as an official bounty has been put on his head.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is offering up to 10 million Turkish Lira, which comes out to roughly $500,000, for information leading to the capture of Freedom. The 30-year-old’s name is also on Turkey’s 2023 most-wanted terrorists list.
“That makes it so dangerous,” Freedom told The New York Post.
Michigan star Mazi Smith didn’t get in much trouble in his gun case.
The talented defensive player for the Wolverines was arrested on a gun charge in October 2022 when an officer stopped his vehicle while he was armed without the proper permit. However, the judge didn’t drop the hammer at all.
Mazi Smith was sentenced to a year of probation on the charge. If he gets through the first six months without any issues, he can request to have it shortened.
Mazi Smith sentenced in gun case. He got probation and community service.