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Rafael Nadal’s first singles match since losing in the first round of the French Open in May ended with a 6-3 6-4 win against Leo Borg in the first round of the Swedish Open. Nadal, 38, missed Wimbledon to focus on the Olympics in Paris this summer and was making his return to action at the tournament in Bastad. The Spaniard, who won a doubles match with Casper Ruud on Monday, broke his 21-year-old Swedish opponent, the son of tennis legend Bjorn Borg, with a drop shot in the fourth game. Nadal went on to serve out the ninth game…
The premier college coach in West Virginia leads a program at the University of Tennessee. Kim Caldwell, hired Sunday as head women’s basketball coach of the Volunteers, led Marshall to a 26-7 record, the Sun Belt Conference championship and its first NCAA Tournament berth since 1997 this season in her lone season with the Thundering Herd. The victory total was the most in program history. For her effort, Caldwell was voted winner of the Furfari Award, named for longtime sports writer Mickey Furfari and presented by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association. Caldwell won the award twice before, in 2019…
Tennessee has found the next coach to lead its women’s basketball program. Kim Caldwell will leave Marshall for Knoxville, as first reported by Talia Goodman. Caldwell takes over for Kellie Harper, who was fired last week after five seasons coaching the Lady Vols. Caldwell will be formally introduced at a news conference on Tuesday, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel. In Caldwell’s lone season at Marshall, the Thundering Herd won the Sun Belt’s regular season and tournament championships, going 26–7 overall and 17–1 in conference. That performance earned Marshall an NCAA tournament bid as a No. 13 seed, but the…
e individual women, six men, and women’s team receive USTFCCCA academic honors NEW ORLEANS – Sprinter Louie Hinchliffewas recognized as U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s (USTFCCCA) Scholar Athlete of the Year, and a total of 11 student-athletes were named All-Academic Athletes, the organization announced Monday. Hinchliffe was named the 2024 NCAA Division I Men’s Outdoor Track & Field National Scholar Track Athlete of the Year after maintaining a 3.51 cumulative grade point average. The Sheffield, England, native won the 100-meter dash at the 2024 NCAA DI Outdoor Track & Field Championships with a personal best time…
BOSTON — Red Sox Nation is in mourning after the passing of former team president and CEO Larry Lucchino, who died Tuesday at the age of 78. As part of the ownership group that bought the Red Sox in 2002 along with John Henry and Tom Werner, Lucchino was an instrumental figure in the franchise ending its World Series drought in 2004. Lucchino’s leadership and baseball expertise not only helped the ownership group revamp Fenway Park, but two more titles followed in 2007 and 2013.
The big storyline heading into the 2024 NFL season is what will happen with head coach Mike McCarthy and quarterback Dak Prescott, who are both in contract years with the organization. For McCarthy, he did enough last season to show ownership that they should see through the final year of his deal despite yet another letdown in the playoffs. But a new report has stated McCarthy being “fed up” with Jerry Jones and others in the front office.
Bronny James is coming to terms with the fact that his immediate future is getting farther away from the Lakers and closer to the South Bay Lakers, the team linked to the Los Angeles Angels, with each passing day. LeBron’s 19-year-old son seemed to be handling the pressure pretty well so far, but his morale is cracking. It’s not easy being the son of one of the best players in NBA history, especially if your performance is light years away not only from your progenitor, something normal with his stratospheric level, and is far inferior (to be generous) to that…
Rafael Nadal swept past Leo Borg, son of tennis great Bjorn Borg, to advance to the second round of the Bastad Open on Tuesday as he builds towards the Paris Olympics. It was Nadal’s first singles match since the 38-year-old fell in the opening round at Roland Garros on May 27, and he eased to a 6-3, 6-4 win in wet conditions. Both Nadal and the 21-year-old Borg, currently ranked 461 in the world, were wild card entries to the Swedish clay-court tournament. Despite an early scare with the former world number one slipping on the wet white line, Nadal…
Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob, center, receives his 2018 NBA Championship ring from NBA Commissioner Adam Silver during a ceremony before the opening night game against the Oklahoma City Thunder at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Oct. 16, 2018. Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst N/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Imag Golden State Warriors owner Joe Lacob has never been shy of making his feelings about his fellow NBA teams known. After all, this is the man who once claimed that his organization was “light years” ahead of the rest of the NBA.
World 200m silver medalist and Olympic bronze winner from Tokyo Gabby Thomas of the USA is determined to dethrone dominant Jamaican Shericka Jackson when Paris hosts the Olympic Games for the 3rd time in the games’ history. The highly ranked American opened her season with a wind aided 22.08s finish in the half-lap dash at Texas relays and a 10.88s 100m performance on the same track. Having played second fiddle to the Jamaican sprinter in the last four years, the 28-year-old who recently wrapped up her Masters in Epidemiology has placed a golden target on the upcoming Olympic Games in…