When the University of South Carolina Gamecocks defeated the University of Connecticut Huskies 62-48 on April 3 in the Women's Final Four, it should have been a clean, celebrated moment. Head coach Dawn Staley had guided her team to another defining win, one step closer to what would have been a fourth NCAA championship under…
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Thirty years ago this month, a 67-foot-by-100-foot mural of Dawn Staley went up on the side of a building in Philadelphia, around the corner from where she grew up, across the street from her elementary school and directly facing the recreation center where she first developed her game. She was 26 years old, fresh off…
Ten years ago, a Washington, D.C., mother named Shari Baptiste sat down and wrote a GoFundMe appeal on behalf of her 15-year-old daughter, a promising young tennis player whose growing talent was outpacing the family's ability to fund it. Tournament travel, coaching fees and the general cost of competing at a high junior level had…
Coco Gauff arrived at the Miami Open against her team's wishes, stepped onto the court with something to prove, and left with a win. The world No. 4 rallied from a set down to defeat Elisabetta Cocciaretto 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Friday, advancing to the third round of the WTA 1000 tournament despite an injury…

