I just watched the match. I think Serena is an incredible player, probably the greatest women’s player of all-all-time and has elevated the sport on her shoulders.

There’s no “try” involved. Smashing a racket = code violation. It doesn’t matter who does it. The argument is whether or not that is appropriate for everybody, or for nobody. You cannot say “well, she’s a black woman so she gets to smash her racket because ‘her culture values authenticity and she’s a new mother’ while…

I may not have hit the nail on the head with my word choice here, I’ll admit, but I don’t think the article is balanced, it’s a puff job of Serena.  She lost 6-2, 6-4, and this controversy happened in the second set.  Wouldn’t it be more fair to say that Serena wasn’t feeling it today, wasn’t having her best match,…

Gotta agree. Osaka outplayed her, no question. I feel bad she couldn’t enjoy this victory, because she earned it.

The umpire was right on all three of those calls. It sounds like Williams thought the “coaching” warning was rescinded because she told the umpire she’s not a cheater, but of course that’s not how that penalty works. The call is made against the coach (who admitted he was coaching from the stands), so the player can’t…

When you get caught stealing, is it a valid defense to claim that many people before you have stolen without getting caught?

The highlight reel should only show the cursing done after the player has been assessed one or two violations. What’s rare, even for emotional, aggressive, half-mental men and women in tennis is for those players to continue to push the umpire when they know they’re going to lose a point or game.

This was so hard to watch. I hope Naomi Osaka knows she would have won this match on her own if all of this shit hadn’t happened.

It’s so disappointing reading left leaning or right leaning threads. They’re all echo chambers for what each side thinks they believe is true. Preaching to the choir is getting both sides nowhere. I guess you should all just have fun pretending it’s “us vs them” while living your wage slave lives. It’s simple. It’s…

Cam should lighten up. Maybe pretend it was a woman who said those things.

Hard to be intimidating when you’re doing In Living Color Fly Girl cosplay.

are they insults or just the unvarnished truth?!?

Newton needs to understand that Benjamin is no longer a Panther and he doesn’t belong to Cam Newton. It’s not like Newton put his name on Benjamin and then threw him out the window when the Bills came calling.

Bull fucking shit.

Jerry Rice would like a word. 

MJ might be the greatest of all time, but Jesus CHRIST he is such a pussy. 

what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have…

It takes some seriously committed wilful ignorance at this point to believe she’s not doped to her eyeballs. Tennis is a complete joke, it’s exactly like cycling was back in the day. The only thing the WTA (and most pro sports bodies) took out of that trainwreck was that the best solution is to cover your eyes and…

Serena is a PED user. She had a TEU during the Olympics. She hid in a saferoom to avoid a random drug test. She hasn’t shown much of a physical decline well into her 30's in a sport where you’re typically washed up at 27.

“Over her 23-year career in tennis, Serena Williams has never tested positive for any illegal substance despite being tested significantly more than other professional tennis players.”