Month: June 2021

6:40 PM ET Associated Press Novak Djokovic said he has been speaking to top women tennis pros, including Serena Williams, about the players’ association that he and Vasek Pospisil founded in the hopes of gaining “more access and more transparency” — and a larger cut of the sport’s revenues. “You start to realize that the
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9:19 AM ET Kathleen McNamee U.S. Soccer and the United States women’s national team continued to clash on Thursday after the governing body accused a lawyer working for the squad in their equal pay lawsuit of showing “a concerning level of dishonesty” presenting “a misleading and inaccurate account of the facts” in a new documentary
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11:21 AM ET Bill Moos will retire as Nebraska’s athletic director at the end of the month, the school announced Friday. “I step away completely content, knowing that our athletic program is reborn and rebuilt and that it has a solid, stable foundation,” Moos said in a statement. Moos, 70, had led Nebraska’s athletic department
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6:43 PM ET Former UFC light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans has decided to come out of retirement and says he is fully committed to competing in an MMA or boxing event in the near future. Evans, 41, announced his retirement from MMA in 2018. He told ESPN he is currently targeting a boxing match against
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1:51 PM ET Former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko overpowered Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina 6-4, 6-1 on Friday to set up an all-Baltic title decider against Estonia’s Anett Kontaveit at the Eastbourne grasscourt tournament. Latvia’s Ostapenko, who took a wildcard for the warm up tournament ahead of next week’s Wimbledon, raced out of the blocks to
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