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We've got betting picks for the French Open, MLB, and WNBA for June 6, 2024....
Wed Jun 12 2024
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Here's our top betting picks and predictions for May 28, 2024 including picks for the NBA Playoffs and French Open....
by JD Pics
Tue May 28 2024
The ATP tour and Saudi Arabia agree to another round of woke pandering
We need a more menacing term than sports washing because it’s not working. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and the ATP tour agreed to a five-year sponsorship Wednesday, with courtside ads slated for the season-ending ATP Finals, Indian Wells (of course), Miami, Madrid, and Beijing....
Wed Feb 28 2024
Saudi Arabia doesn't grant women equal rights, but plans to host WTA Finals
Saudi Arabia has already invested heavily in several sports. Now, the nation plans to make headway into women’s tennis and host the 2024 WTA Finals — if a deal can be reached....
by Mackenzie Meaney Saudi Arabia
Fri Feb 02 2024
Novak Djokovic had a bad day at the office, for once
If beating Rafael Nadal at Roland Garros is sport’s toughest assignment, beating Novak Djokovic in Melbourne can’t be too far behind it. He hadn’t lost there in some 3,000 days (a COVID deportation playing some role in that), he’s won the tournament 10 times and he was still coming off a previous se...
Fri Jan 26 2024
Coco Gauff-Aryna Sabalenka is tennis' best rivalry
Women’s tennis hasn’t had a great rivalry in some time. The tour was dominated by Serena Williams for so long and no one could have managed to look her in the eye for very long. The closest was her sister Venus, yet matches between the two regularly and mostly were hard on the eyes, because both see...
Fri Jan 26 2024
Taking the Daniil Medvedev ride at the Australian Open
Most of my life, I have found tennis very easy and yet very hard to watch. It’s easy in that it’s a beautiful sport to gaze upon, the players’ ballet-like movements and the steady rhythm of the sound of the ball hitting the racket and then the court over and over can lull one into a lovely state of ...
Wed Jan 24 2024
Novak Djokovic was the boulder, Taylor Fritz was Sisyphus
It has to be hard enough to work through the mental gymnastics it takes to take the court against Novak Djokovic, convinced you can win. That’s what professional athletes do, of course, it’s part of the job. But they’re also still human, and it gets hard to shut out the list that makes Djokovic the ...
Tue Jan 23 2024
The Coco Gauff era is fully underway
Coco Gauff was brought to tears at the 2023 Australian Open following a fourth-round loss to Jeļena Ostapenko. A year later she was in danger of another early exit in the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. Unforced errors were piling up and Gauff was forced to rally to pull out a win by tiebre...
Tue Jan 23 2024
Late charge puts top seed Aryna Sabalenka into US Open quarters
Aryna Sabalenka's quest for a third consecutive U.S. Open title remained on track when the No. 1 seed from Belarus advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Taylor Townsend on Sunday.,The victory, in 1 hour, 15 minutes, over the unseeded Townsend of the United States was not without...
Sun Sep 06 2026
Iva Jovic outlasts Alexandra Eala at US Open, sets up Coco Gauff showdown
Iva Jovic battled from a break down in the third set to beat good friend Alexandra Eala in a third-round match that lasted more than three hours on Saturday night and set up a showdown against fellow American Coco Gauff.,The 14th-seeded Jovic won 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 in a primetime match on Arthur Ashe Cou...
Sun Sep 06 2026
Qinwen Zheng stuns No. 22 Madison Keys with late rally at US Open
Trailing 5-0 in the third set against No. 22 seed Madison Keys, Qinwen Zheng staged a thrilling comeback by winning the next seven games to secure a 1-6, 7-6 (3), 7-5 victory on Saturday and reach the fourth round of the U.S. Open in New York.,Zheng, the 2024 Olympic gold medalist from China, held s...
Sat Sep 05 2026
Williams sisters can't hold late lead, fall in US Open doubles
Serena Williams and Venus Williams, playing their first U.S. Open doubles match as teammates in four years, couldn't quite pull out a victory on Friday night in New York.,The 14th-seeded duo of Hao-Ching Chan of Taiwan and Maya Joint of Australia shook off a 5-0 deficit in the decisive first-to-10 t...
Sat Sep 05 2026
No. 3 Jessica Pegula rallies from slow start to reach US Open fourth round
After easing through the first two rounds, No. 3 seed Jessica Pegula overcame her first bout of adversity with aplomb, rallying for a 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 defeat of No. 31 seed Canadian Leylah Fernandez to advance into the Round of 16 at the U.S. Open Friday in New York.,Pegula, the runner-up in the 2024 U...
Fri Sep 04 2026
Madison Keys staves off 5 match points, advances to US Open third round
If 22nd-seeded Madison Keys makes a deep run in the U.S. Open, tennis fans might refer to Thursday's match on raucous Court 17 as "The Madison Miracle.",The 2017 runner-up rallied from a 5-2 third-set deficit, staving off five match points to edge Hungary's Anna Bondar, 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (5) in a second...
Thu Sep 03 2026
Jessica Pegula cruises past Sofia Kenin at US Open
No. 3 seed Jessica Pegula needed just 56 minutes Wednesday to dispatch fellow American Sofia Kenin 6-3, 6-1 and advance to the third round of the U.S. Open in New York.,Pegula, the 2024 runner-up at Flushing Meadows, surrendered only seven points on serve and finished with 18 winners against eight u...
Thu Sep 03 2026
Elena Rybakina shrugs off foot injury, rain delay in U.S. Open win
No. 2 seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan assuaged concerns about her readiness for the U.S. Open with a 74-minute victory over teenage wild card Thea Frodin on Tuesday in New York.,Rybakina prevailed 6-3, 6-2 in the first-round match, never faltering on her serve and breaking Frodin three times in si...