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US Women’s Open Memorable For Two Very Different Reasons

Joyce Grant — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:43:17 +0000

Twenty-year-old Naomi Osaka won the US Open tennis tournament (Women's Singles) on Saturday.
Osaka, who is Japanese-American, is the first Japanese person to win a major tennis tournament.
However, her win isn't the only thing that made the tournament memorable. Something happened to her opponent, 36-year-old tennis star Serena Williams.
She was accused of being "coached," which is not allowed during a match. Williams's coach, who was sitting in the crowd, had made a motion with his hands to tell Williams how to hit a shot. However, Williams said she was not looking at the coach at the time and so did not cheat.

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Canada, Mexico, US To Co-Host 2026 World Cup (Men’s Soccer)

Joyce Grant — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 01:22:21 +0000

The FIFA World Cup, the biggest event in men's soccer--perhaps in sports, period--will be co-hosted jointly in 2026 by Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Each of the three countries will host some of the games. One proposal is for Canada and Mexico to each host 10 games, and for the United States to host 60 games.
Canada hosted the women's world cup in 2015, one of only four countries to host both events.

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Inspiring, Heartwarming and Funny Stories From The PyeongChang Winter Olympics

Joyce Grant — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 05:13:25 +0000

The Olympics and Paralympics bring out the best in people, and the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics are no exception.

As athletes set aside their countries' differences and test themselves against the best of the best, a sense of mutual respect puts everyone on a level playing field. And that can make for some inspirational, funny and heart-warming moments.

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Winter Olympics More Than Just Sports

Joyce Grant — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 02:59:18 +0000

The 2018 Winter Olympic Games are on now, in PyeongChang, South Korea.
The location is very significant. South Korea and North Korea are not on friendly terms. But the Olympics may be bringing them closer together, politically.
North Korea is a "dictatorship." That means, one person rules it. That person is Kim Jong-un, known as the "Supreme Leader." He is known for being extremely strict and harsh with his country's people. He keeps his country separated from the rest of the world. It is usually hard to know what is going on in North Korea, because free communication is not allowed in or out of the country.
But the Winter Olympics may help to thaw relations between North and South Korea.

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Bills Fans Help Bengals Charity

Joyce Grant — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 23:30:25 +0000

A very unusual thing happened in a football game, and it's going to help the families of some ill and physically challenged kids.
The Buffalo Bills football team hasn't been in the playoffs for a long time. In fact, the last time was in 2000--more than 17 years ago. They were the last team in any of the four major sports in North America (football, baseball, basketball, hockey) to make the playoffs in the 21st Century. Now that's a drought!*
But that all changed this year and the Buffalo Bills got to go to the playoffs.

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Houston Astros Win Their First World Series

Joyce Grant — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 03:15:14 +0000

The Houston Astros won the World Series, the biggest achievement in baseball each year, for the first time in their team's history.
They beat the Los Angeles Dodgers four games to three.
The Astros won the seventh game of the World Series 5 to 1 over the Dodgers on Nov. 1.
It was a hard-fought battle. The two teams were evenly matched. The fact that the World Series even went to seven games means that neither team ran away with the championship.
The Astros won game seven early. They got five points in the first two innings, putting them ahead of the Dodgers right from the start.

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Wounded Warriors Compete In Invictus Games in Toronto

Joyce Grant — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 02:37:46 +0000

More than 550 "wounded warriors" are gathered in Toronto, Ontario this week, to compete in the Invictus Games.
The competitors are soldiers who became injured during their military service. Many of them are missing a limb, for instance, and many others have PTSI which is a mental health condition caused by trauma.

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Blue Jays Pitcher Back On The Mound

Joyce Grant — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 01:43:28 +0000

Roberto Osuna is a professional pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team. But on Friday, June 23, when the Jays needed a pitcher to come in and help them win the game, Osuna didn't pitch.
Osuna was the logical choice to come into the game; he is known as a closer, someone who comes in to pitch near the end of the game, to save it. The 22-year-old has saved games before--in fact, 18 of them this year.

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Basketball: It’s Down To Two Teams

Joyce Grant — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 00:56:33 +0000

In a couple of weeks, we'll know who the best basketball team in the National Basketball Association is.
It will be either the Cleveland Cavaliers or the Golden State Warriors.
Those two teams are now battling it out in the finals of the playoffs. This is the third straight year the NBA playoffs have come down to these two teams. Last year, Cleveland won and the year before, Golden State won.

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New England Patriots Win Super Bowl Thriller

Jonathan Tilly — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 05:35:19 +0000

It's fun to think about why we so many of us love sports as much as we do. Is it the action? The drama? The competition? The incredible athletes?

Most likely, everyone's answer is a little different. However, no matter what brought the millions of viewers worldwide to their TVs, this year's NFL championship game, The Super Bowl had it all.

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