Tennis great Billie Jean King saw a jealousy-driven scenario like the one we’re seeing with Caitlin Clark in the WNBA take place in her own sport over 50 years ago. She took matters into her own hands by not letting women’s tennis implode at the time and is warning the WNBA it had better not blow this new opportunity either.
King, who met Clark after attending the Indiana Fever – New York Liberty game last month, drew the comparison to some of her fellow tennis players not exactly embracing Chris Evert when she burst onto the scene at the 1971 U.S. Open at just 16 years old.
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Kendrick Perkins is back in Boston covering the NBA Finals with ESPN and on Tuesday night he decided to not only make a stop over at Fenway Park to check out the Braves-Red Sox game, but he also stepped into the batter’s box for some hacks.
How’d it go for the former NBA player who won a championship with the Boston Celtics?
Not great. Not great at all.
MLB Network cameras caught the 39-year-old NBA analyst taking some rough cuts at some pretty slow pitches a few hours before the first pitch of the game.
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How has the F1 silly season unfolded so far, and what moves are yet to come?
The 2024 Formula 1 season made history for the sport when the first race began. When the lights went out to start the Bahrain Grand Prix, it was the first time in F1 history that the drivers who ended the previous season were the same exact drivers — in the same exact spots — when the next year began.
However, the season also began with changes looming on the horizon.
Former WNBA owner Kelly Loeffler is very disappointed in the treatment of Caitlin Clark in the league.
Clark has dominated the news since last weekend when Chicago Sky player Chennedy Carter dropped her with an insane cheap shot away from the ball.
The dirty play immediately went viral, and the situation only further escalated when Carter claimed she had “no regrets” about the disgusting play.
Welcome to 32 teams in 32 days. To get us through the offseason, we’ll be taking a closer look at every team in the NFL, in order of projected 2024 win totals. Up next: the Broncos.
The Denver Broncos could have an uphill battle in their first season trying to recover from the infamous trade and extension of Russell Wilson in 2022.
Wilson was released in March, but the consequences of his two-year stint in Denver are visible on the Broncos’ roster, which might be the NFL’s worst heading into the 2024 season.
Welcome to the NFL offseason, where receivers get paid lots of money (just ask Justin Jefferson, A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith, Amon-Ra St. Brown, Jaylen Waddle and Nico Collins), the NFL continues to push for an 18-game season, the league and NFLPA discuss ways to ruin the offseason calendar and teams continue to go through their OTAs and mandatory minicamps.
So we asked our MMQB staff of NFL experts to answer a series of eight questions over the next two weeks. They debated the best move Monday, so today they’re going to weigh in on the worst offseason moves.
Daisy Ridley’s next film is called Young Woman and the Sea, which shares the story of Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Ridley plays the main character, Trudy, who was one of the best swimmers in the world when she swam the Channel in 1926. Along with her historical achievement of swimming from France to England, Ederle was an Olympic gold medalist in the 1924 games.
In an interview with SI Kids, Ridley explained that she was “inspired” playing the role of Ederle.
“I felt very inspired by what she did,” Ridley said.
Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle was teammates with the late Bill Walton for two seasons during his NBA playing career.
Carlisle and Walton overlapped on the Boston Celtics from 1985 to ’87 and won an NBA championship together in 1986. Walton averaged 2.1 assists per game that season, but it was an off-the-court assist that Carlisle remembers most.
“I have him to thank, probably, also for me being married to my wife Donna,” Carlisle told reporters ahead of the Pacers’ Game 4 matchup against the Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals Monday.
Angel Reese is getting cooked on social media after she was tossed Tuesday night.
The Chicago Sky rookie was ejected during a loss to the New York Liberty following a verbal exchange with an official late in the game.
Not only was Reese ejected, but she didn’t play well in the game. While she finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds, she shot a truly abysmal 3-12 from the field.
Well, people on social media were more than happy to cook and roast Reese after the official sent her packing. Turns out that many people aren’t fans.
Angel Reese was ejected late in the Sky’s loss to the Liberty for “disrespectfully addressing” an official and then “waving her hand in dismissal.