It’s been a landmark year for Serena Williams. In January, tennis’ big-boned diva took advantage of a heaping helping of Australian hospitality to rally past Svetlana Kuznetsova in the Aussie Open quarterfinals en route to her 10th grand slam title. Then, just five months later, she made...

The U.S. Open tennis tournament always seems to suffer from a little bit of an inferiority complex. Die-hard tennis fans love the event to be sure, but the Open has a tendency to get lost sometimes amid the fervor of the football preseason hype machine and the baseball playoff push. Which is sad, for...

Can you imagine the conversation that takes place when Serena Williams, who recently purchased a minority share of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins, introduces herself to the players for the first time? “First of all, I just want all of you to know that, like you, I too am a world-class athlete....

Thank you Roger Federer, and thank you Andy Roddick. Thanks for serving up a Wimbledon men’s final for the ages on a day when all sports fans really, really needed something to get excited about. I think it’s safe to say a lot of us went to bed Saturday night with a bad taste in our mouths...

The loyal Poopsters may remember a while back when we railed against NBC for not showing live tennis during the French Open. Ya know, this being the 21st century and all. We were pretty sure they’d get it figured out by Wimbledon, since ya know, it’s the 21st century and all. Brooklyn Decker Then...

There’s a festering pimple on the ass of sports media these days, and no, we’re not talking about Favrewatch 2.0, or Sid/LeBron handshake snubs. We’re talking about Mixed Martial Arts. Mind you, we have no problem with the sport itself. The problem lies in the 180-degree turn that...

We put on our bell bottoms, climbed aboard the Sportspoop wayback machine today and took a trip back to the 1970s, when disco was king and sports such as the NBA Finals were on tape-delay. A little background first. There’s a tennis tournament going on in France. A big one. There’s a guy...