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Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Novak Djokovic won the U.S. Open on Sunday, beating Russian Daniil Medvedev in straight sets. The three-hour and 17-minute slugfest ended with the Serbian winning 6-3, 7-6 and 6-3. “It obviously means the world to me. … I have to say it every time — that I’m […]

Clive Brunskill/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Open women’s singles final is set to kick off Saturday afternoon, with 19-year-old American Coco Gauff playing against Aryna Sabalenka from Belarus. The championship match, which is scheduled to start at 4 p.m. ET, marks the first appearance by both athletes in a U.S. Open final. Gauff, the […]

iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Seattle 1, Tampa Bay 0 Detroit 10, N.Y. Yankees 3 LA Angels 3, Cleveland 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE LA Dodgers 10, Miami 0 Atlanta 8 St. Louis 5 Arizona 6, Chi Cubs 2 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Detroit 21, Kansas […]

Frey/TPN/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two protesters have been arrested after play at the U.S. Open was interrupted on Thursday night when they began shouting and one glued his feet to the ground during a match at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. Sayak Mukhopadhyay, 50, of White Plains, was charged with criminal trespass and […]

Elsa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When Serena Williams played the final match of her historic career at last year’s U.S. Open, countless headlines heralded the legacy that she, as a Black woman, left on the sport of tennis. One year later, at the 2023 U.S. Open, the rise of America’s young Black tennis stars, many […]

iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Seattle 8, Cincinnati 4 AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 2, Minnesota 1 Oakland 5, Toronto 2 Tampa Bay 3, Boston 1 NY Yankees 4, Detroit 3 Chi White Sox 6, Kansas City 4 Houston 12, Texas 3 Baltimore 10, LA Angels […]

Robert Prange/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Fiona Crawley, the top-ranked college tennis player in the nation, forfeited $81,000 in earnings after making it to the first round of the U.S. Open, due to an NCAA rule barring college athletes from claiming prize money above a certain threshold. Crawely, a 21-year-old senior, plays college tennis for the […]

Dylan Buell/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some of the world’s most contentious land battles may take place at a baseball field’s home plate. Now Major League Baseball is turning to cameras and computers in an effort to settle some of those fights over balls and strikes. MLB is testing a new technology in all the AAA […]

iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Cincinnati 7, Seattle 6 AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 5, LA Angels 4 (10) Toronto 7, Oakland 1 Minnesota 8, Cleveland 3 NY Yankees 5, Detroit 1 Kansas City 7, Chi White Sox 6 Houston 14, Texas 1 Tampa Bay 8, […]

Denis Doyle/Getty Images (LONDON) — Jorge Vilda, the coach of the Spanish women’s national soccer team, was fired Tuesday by the Royal Federation of Spanish Football (RFEF) following promises of structural changes amidst the ongoing controversy in the wake of RFEF President Luis Rubiales’ kiss of women’s team player Jenni Hermoso following their recent World […]