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Rafael Nadal announced in a video posted X that his final professional event will be the Davis Cup Finals, which will be held in Malaga from November 19-24. Spain plays the Netherlands on the 19th, and it is full circle for Nadal, who first represented Spain in 2004...
Baseball fans in 12 markets were barely into the season when, on May 1, Comcast pulled the plug on the struggling Ballys Sports and parent company Diamond Sports Network, which is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The date marked the end of Comcast’s carriage agreement. The...
Elite-level athletes become public figures when they compete in front of thousands of fans and perhaps millions more on a broadcast. These may be baseball players with nine-figure contracts, college quarterbacks with NIL deals, Olympic curling medalists, or others....
Finding and hiring the right lawyer can make all the difference in the world. This is not an exaggeration. Reputation, time, money and stress just scratch the surface of the long list of reasons why. A recent case offers a great illustration of the costs — personal,...
On Tuesday, September 13, Robert Sarver was fined $10 million and banned from the NBA for one year after the league released the findings of a 10-month independent investigation that interviewed 300 current and former employees. As the owner for the last 17 years of...
Title IX passed on June 23, 1972. It was a brief 37-word paragraph signed by Richard Nixon that announced the federal government would withdraw funding to any public college or graduate school that discriminated against women. In 1970, 59% of women in the U.S....
Jackie Robinson (January 31, 1919–October 24, 1972) continues to inspire 75 years after first stepping onto the baseball field for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, for his first Opening Day. Some may wonder if it is overkill that the number 42 is retired from...
Some will remember Olympic boycotts back in the 1980s. There was the United States and an American-led block of 65 countries refusing to attend the Moscow Summer Games in 1980 after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and other human rights abuses. The Soviets and...
The 2022 Olympic Winter Games officially will run from February 4th to the 20th. Despite the surging Omicron variant hammering the US and many other countries, we will have another Olympics during the pandemic. Unlike the Tokyo Games, which took place without live...
Dr. Larry Nassar got 175 years in prison for systematically abusing vulnerable girls and women gymnasts over several years. He did this while working as the team doctor for the national gymnastics team and other capacities. More than 500 current and former gymnasts...