[TS] Sports of The Times: Womenâs Game Turns on Axis of the Williamses
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Wherever they go, the Venus and Serena Williams are a continuous, compelling drama, a subject of essential tennis debate. What would the womenâs game be without them?
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GW's No. 17 women's basketball team hosts a nationally televised game Sunday evening against Xavier, the team's fiercest Atlantic-10 foe the last decade.
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AMHERST -- Five years had passed since the University of Massachusetts women's basketball team had faced a top-25 opponent at home. Coincidentally, it had been five years since the Minutewomen played Boston College.
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Serena Williams is in love - with her new attacking game and herself. Williams moved a step closer to salvaging her season with a 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4 semifinal victory over Amelie Mauresmo in the WTA Championships on Sunday.
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Teams are always gunning for W's, as in wins. In both Division 1 and 2 girls' hockey, teams will be gunning for the other W's, as well.
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Venus and Serena Williams served their way into the U.S. Open quarter-finals with impressive straight-sets victories on Sunday, setting up a possible clash between the American sisters in the final four.
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Blowout losses, internal disputes and two huge wins have highlighted the Terps' season and have the team playing Gary Williams's way.
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Can Serena and Venus Williams, who missed the 2003 Open with injuries, re-emerge as the best in the women&#39;s game? Venus hasn&#39;t won a major in three years, Serena in 14 months.
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Players on the women&#39;s tour will be scrambling for final points this week as they attempt to secure spots in lucrative season-ending WTA Championships.
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Ho-hum. It&#39;s more of the same this year at the US Open. Top seeds have fallen like flies, Serena Williams and her go-go boots have been poured a nice, tall glass of lousy officiating, and Andre Agassi is trying
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It can&#39;t be easy for former No. 1 Serena Williams, struggling to get back into tennis shape, and seeing countrywoman Lindsay Davenport battering 0-and-1 an opponent that the younger Williams sister barely edges 7-6(3), 7-5.
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By jeff fisher. After its historic victory last night against Saint Joseph&#39;s, the Penn women&#39;s basketball team will face an even bigger challenge against another city rival.
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When you hear about Serena and Venus Williams overpowering opponents, as happened Sunday at the U.S. Open to two recent Grand Slam finalists, it's easy to forget that the sisters are, indeed, individuals.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The decisive move in the Olympic women&#39;s soccer tournament was soaring toward the head of Abby Wambach when the ball and a thought arrived at her noggin about the same time.
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The Wimbledon draw, which resembles a game of bingo with its grids and numbers drawn from a basket, has prescribed some interesting matchups including a possible Justine Henin-Serena Williams quarterfinal.
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The Washington women&#39;s basketball team left Edmundson Pavilion bloodied last night -- but, for one of the rare times recently, not beaten.
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Upsets in the womenâs bracket at Wimbledon showcased the gameâs depth and parity as Czech Nicole Vaidisova toppled defending champion Amelie Mauresmo and Franceâs Marion Bartoli ousted third seed Jelena Jankovic.