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Algeria's Imane Khelif helps Hungary's Anna Hamori out of the ring after their women's 66kg quarterfinal boxing match at the 2024 Summer Olympics, August 3, 2024, in Paris, France
Pochettino says ‘politics and manipulation’ overshadowed the football
FOR sports reporters (and likely most other beats, too), the press conference is a tedious ritual during which we are fed pat answers to often equally banal questions.
If you have a really good question, you’d rather hold it back, because otherwise all of your colleagues are privy to the answer. No scoop there.
A new documentary recalls the unmatched rivalry between Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, but it is also an honest and intimate look at their unlikely off-court friendship and shared battle with cancer, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Still the only black man to win the US Open tennis title, a statue of the legendary champion, Arthur Ashe, is now the only one remaining on Monument Avenue in his Richmond, Virginia hometown, where confederate leaders of the Civil War were also once displayed, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Tennis icon set to become oldest singles competitor at Flushing Meadows since 1981 after receiving wild-card entry — yet another historic moment in a career already filled with them, writes HOWARD FENDRICH