Category: Sports

Tennis superstars Serena and Venus Williams both successfully returned to the pro tennis scene after each suffered knee problems during the early part of the year. They both earned straight-set wins in the opening round of the Italian Open on May 4. Top-ranked Serena beat Timea Bacsinszky in two sets (7-6, 6-1). It was her […]

Ex-NFL linebacker Nick Rogers died at age 30 after crashing his car, The Associated Press reports. According to the AP, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office reports that Rogers suffered a fatal one-car accident at about 1:30 a.m. on Monday, May 3. He ran his car into a utility pole in College Park, Ga., not […]

Both the Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers have survived the first round of NBA playoffs, keeping alive the opportunity for fans to witness perhaps the two best players in the game—LeBron James and Kobe Bryant—face off in the championship. But if LeBron and Kobe are arguably the best of today’s league, who would be […]

Attention was raised early last week when news broke that Miami Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland asked new Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant if his mother was a prostitute in a pre-NFL Draft interview. Reports surfaced that Bryant may have led Ireland to question his mother’s past when he reportedly told Ireland that his […]

With their backs against the wall, the Atlanta Hawks came out swinging against the Milwaukee Bucks in Game 6 of their first-round match up on Friday, April 30. Atlanta used a huge run in the third quarter to beat Milwaukee 83-69 and force Game 7. Atlanta outscored Milwaukee 29-11 in the third quarter after Milwaukee […]

Typically, it’s a thunderous dunk from LeBron James that gets the Cleveland Cavaliers fired up, but James was just a spectator this time around. After trailing by 11 points at halftime against the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, Cleveland point guard Mo Williams threw down a one-handed jam right in […]

Side-stepping jabs and ducking would-be knockout blows, Floyd Mayweather Jr. had the look of a boxer who couldn’t be touched. Shane Mosley awoke the crowd–and Mayweather–with a second-round punch that caused Mayweather to grab hold of Mosley to keep from falling. But the self proclaimed “best boxer ever” recovered to box an otherwise flawless bout, […]

It didn’t come easy, but after a tough fight with the young, talented Oklahoma City Thunder, the No. 1 seeded Los Angeles Lakers advanced to the second round of the Western Conference playoffs and are still alive in the quest to defend their NBA Championship. Lakers star forward Pau Gasol tipped in a missed jump-shot […]

Tiger Woods was unable to overcome his early struggles at the Quail Hollow Championship on April 30, and missed the cut to compete the event’s final two rounds. After shooting a 2-over-par 74 first round on April 29, Woods performed even worse in the second round, failing to qualify for weekend play at a tournament […]

Just when the Tiger Woods adultery scandal seemed to be dying down, new rumors have cropped up that may cause the superstar golfer’s marriage to officially end. Woods reportedly confessed to sleeping with more than 120 women throughout his five-year marriage to Elin Nordegren, including an affair with one of his neighbors, Raychel Coudriet. The […]

The Los Angeles Lakers retook control of the Western Conference first round matchup against the Oklahoma City Thunder with a lopsided 111-87 win on Tuesday night, April 27. Kevin Durant and the young, but championship-hungry Thunder surprised the Lakers by winning the previous two games to tie the series, 2-2. But Kobe Bryant and the […]