🎾 Oh non non non non non
No. 1 Novak Djokovic withdraws from French Open with torn meniscus
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Bolstered by renewed rivalries, but marred by gut-wrenching injuries, the Roland-Garros semifinals are nearly set, and there’s guaranteed to be a new champion in men’s singles. Serve’s up.
June 05, 2024
🏈 Speechless, over the edge, just breathless
A new CFL season kicks off
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Nearly two hundred days after the Montreal Alouettes hoisted the Grey Cup in Hamilton last November, a new CFL season kicks off with the defending champs visiting the Winnipeg Blue Bombers tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. ET. And with the Jonas Brothers headlining this year’s Grey Cup halftime show, this season’s already, ahem, burnin’ up.
June 05, 2024
🏈 Speechless, over the edge, just breathless
A new CFL season kicks off
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Nearly two hundred days after the Montreal Alouettes hoisted the Grey Cup in Hamilton last November, a new CFL season kicks off with the defending champs visiting the Winnipeg Blue Bombers tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. ET.
June 05, 2024
🤘 No. 1–seed Texas Longhorns
The Women's College World Series championship is set
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The Women’s College World Series (WCWS) best-of-three championship finale begins today at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN. Look out — the Red River Rivalry is coming to the Greatest Show on Dirt.
June 05, 2024
🥎 A league of their own
Athletes Unlimited announces new pro softball league
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Good news, softball fans — there’s a new pro league rounding the bases. Athletes Unlimited’s (AU) pro softball arm will now include Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL), a traditional-style softball season set to launch in 2025 that represents a major development for a game that has spent decades building to a sustainable pro league.
June 05, 2024
🏀 Never gonna keep ’em down
Controversial hard foul on the Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark dominates WNBA news
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We’re roughly one-fourth of the way into the WNBA season and women’s hoops is still the talk of the town, but this weekend’s conversation was dominated by a controversial hard foul on Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark. Let’s cut through the noise.
June 03, 2024
🏒That’s all
The Stanley Cup Final is set and will feature the Edmonton Oilers vs. the Florida Panthers
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After two electric Conference Final series, the Stanley Cup Final is set, with a Canadian squad in the mix for the first time since 2021 and Florida’s finest four wins away from redemption.
June 03, 2024
🎾 Slide to the left
World. No 1 Iga Świątek and No. 3 Coco Gauff cruise to French Open quarter-finals
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Through rain delays and unusually late play, the Roland-Garros quarter-finals (QFs) are fast approaching, with half of the women’s and men’s singles spots clinched and the remaining eight to be awarded by the end of the day.
June 03, 2024
🥒 A bit of a pickle
Texas pickleball ecosystem flourishes amid sports sponsorship gender gap
Everything is bigger in Texas…even pickleball. This weekend, Dallas hosted the CIBC Texas Open, which included both amateurs and Professional Pickleball Association Tour pro players. Last Tuesday, The GIST spoke with Twisted Pickle — a Dallas-based pickleball marketing agency co-owned by Ashlee Erickson Blakley and Suzanne Greever — about the sport’s explosive growth.
June 03, 2024