Category: Sports

PARIS (AP) — San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker was included on the 12-man roster for France’s Olympic basketball team despite a left eye injury that could keep him sidelined. Parker suffered a scratch to his cornea in a fight involving singer Chris Brown and members of hip-hop star Drake’s entourage in a New York […]

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Serena Williams wins with so much more than serving, of course. Her groundstrokes are as intimidating as they come. Superb speed and anticipation fuel her court-covering defense. Her returns are more than solid, too. When that serve is on-target, though, it sure is something special, quite possibly the greatest in the […]

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — A couple of hours after reaching her seventh Wimbledon final, Serena Williams returned to Centre Court with sister Venus to secure a spot in the semifinals of the doubles tournament. The Williams sisters routed Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears 6-1, 6-1 in less than an hour Thursday. The Williams sisters are […]

Pro football players, basketball players and entertainers squared up for tip-off on June 30 for a charity basketball game to fund a foundation bearing the name of Baltimore Ravens wide receiver LaQuan Williams. Supporters of the LaQuan Williams Foundation converged on the gym at Stevenson University in Owings Mills to catch the action. Players included […]

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Thanks to a bit of advice from her big sister and a bunch of aces from her big serve, Serena Williams is back in the Wimbledon semifinals. With two more victories, Williams will be holding a Grand Slam trophy for the first time in two years. The thud of racket-against-ball reverberating […]

U.S. swimmer Cullen Jones secured a trip to the 2012 Olympics in London after winning the 50-meter freestyle race at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials on July 1. Jones won with a time of 21.59 seconds, edging second-place finisher Anthony Ervin by .01 second as the two Black men lunged toward the finish line. Jones […]

(June 29, 2012) New York Knicks power forward Amar’e Stoudemire has apologized for using a homophobic slur directed at a fan on Twitter. According to BET News, the incident began June 23 when a fan sent a Tweet to Stoudemire blaming him for the Knicks’ failure this season. “You better come back a lot stronger […]

Hampton University alum Kellie Wells and Francena McCorory will both represent the U.S. during the upcoming London Olympics. Wells, a former Hampton track and field standout, qualified for Team USA after finishing second in the women’s 100-meter hurdles with a time of 12.77 seconds during the U.S. Olympic Team Trials at the University of Oregon’s […]

Few Washington Wizards fans should have a problem with the team’s use of the third overall pick in this year’s NBA draft. The fans wanted a shooting guard and Wizards president Ernie Grunfeld picked Florida guard Bradley Beal, widely regarded as the top shooting guard available in the draft. But from a basketball perspective, was […]

Serena Williams staved off an upset bid by Zheng Jie, winning 6-7 (5-7), 6-2, 9-7, in the third round of the Wimbledon Championship Tournament June 30 in Wimbledon, England. Williams faced six break points, but managed to erase them all. She also overcame a love-40 deficit in a match-point game for Zheng, then bounced back […]