Ben Shelton squared off against Hugo Gaston in the opening round of the French Open. It wasn’t the American’s first time competing on the clay at Roland Garros, but it was his first meeting against a French player in the Grand Slam.
Shelton dropped the first set of the match before reeling off the next three sets to advance to the second round. Throughout the match that lasted two hours and 30 minutes, he couldn’t help but notice the very real home-court advantage Gaston drew from the crowd.
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The NFL season is fast approaching, and here are 100 things we are looking forward to 100 days ahead of the first game
The 2024 NFL season is closer than you think.
In fact, it is just 100 days away.
That is right, in just 100 days the 2024 NFL regular season begins, with the annual Thursday night kickoff game featuring the defending Super Bowl Champions. For the second season in a row the season begins in Kansas City, as the Kansas City Chiefs host the Baltimore Ravens in an AFC Championship Game rematch.
Larson never climbed into his Cup Series car after the Indy 500 thanks to the rain-shortened Coca-Cola 600.
DESTIN, FL- The future of college athletics took a major detour over the last few weeks, as the House vs NCAA settlement came to fruition, and we still have a ways to go. Speaking before the official start of SEC Spring meetings, commissioner Greg Sankey noted that this will be a week of hashing out problems and looking ahead.
The season will be here before we know it. As we wait for Chiefs-Ravens in the season-opener, there are so many NFL themes to be amped about.
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The Phillies are crazy hot and the Braves have already lost two of their best players for the season. This won’t be an easy run to the Postseason for Atlanta.
Let’s just roll out of the gate here with some basic numbers. In 2023, Ronald Acuña Jr. and Austin Riley played 159 games for the Atlanta Braves. Ozzie Albies played 148 games. Sean Murphy played 108 games. Spencer Strider pitched the most innings of any Braves pitcher at 186.2 innings pitched. The Braves were a juggernaut last season and they were a healthy juggernaut, at that.
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Karl-Anthony Towns made us cheer, cry and cringe during the 2024 NBA playoffs.
In 2022, after walking off the court like Eva Perón as portrayed by Madonna, after finishing seventh in the West and bowing out with an unremarkable, 2-4 first round loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, Minnesota Timberwolves Center Karl Anthony Towns took out a one-page ad that easily could’ve been an email in the Star Tribune, thanking fans for the season, and reaffirming his dedication to his team and the state of Minnesota.
Lionel Messi has spoken English in public for the first time ever, which has led the soccer world as a whole to lose its mind and proclaim that the soccer superstar is the greatest athlete to ever grace the planet.
Just as everyone could have predicted, Messi’s English debut came in the new ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ movie trailer with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Arguably the most famous athlete in the world breaking out his English while appearing on the big screen for a sequel of a movie that originally came out nearly 30 years ago is about as random as it gets, but here we are.
It took a while for Jordan Love. No, we’re not talking about the three seasons from 2020-22, when he mostly sat on the bench behind Aaron Rodgers, stewing in a special brand of frustration that is now apparently reserved for all Packers star-quarterbacks-in-waiting.
We’re talking from Week 11 last season (Nov. 19) to the evening the Packers were eliminated from the playoffs on Jan. 20 when Love was – get ready to gasp – the NFL’s best quarterback.
Will the opening-lap collision between Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly see additional repercussions from Alpine?
Alpine’s comeback story took another step forward on Sunday in the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix. Thanks to a solid qualifying effort from Pierre Gasly on Saturday, and an efficient performance from the driver on Sunday, Alpine doubled up their point total in the Monaco Grand Prix, thanks to Gasly’s tenth-place finish.
However, their comeback story is not the topic on everyone’s mind ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix.