Posts Tagged ‘venus williams’

America’s Next Sweetheart: We Have a (White) Winner!

Wemple's sports post previewing the Redskins-Giants game was so popular yesterday, let's do another. But on tennis this time.
So everyone knows that 17-year-old Melanie Oudin made one hell of a run at the U.S. Open this year; the No. 70 seed dispensed with Elena Dementieva, Maria Sharapova, and Nadia Petrova, before being defeated last night [...]

Cheap Seats Daily: Alberto Gonzales Banished to American Siberia?

The Washington Kastles lost to the Philadelphia Freedoms, the team named after an Elton John song or vice versa, in their home opener last night. The big stories were the sellout crowd that filled Empty Parking Lot Arena, or whatever the temp downtown stadium is called, and the appearance of tireless Venus Williams, who gave [...]

Cheap Seats Daily: DC United Faces Another David?

D.C. United's pride, but little else, is on the line again in a U.S. Open Cup match tonight at the Maryland SoccerPlex. Fresh off vanquishing the amateur Ocean City (N.J.) Barons, otherwise known as "the Real Madrid of Ocean City (N.J.)," United now has to take on the Harrisburg City Islanders, known around their hometown [...]