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The half-Korean daughter of a billionair,e Jessica Pegula, lauded by the USTA as an example of diversity and inclusion (AAPI)* lost to Aryna Sabalenka from Belarus. Lots of disappointed looking black celebs in the crowd including F1's Lewis Hamilton. I'm guessing he and others were in NYC this...

Of course, it is not possible Tiafoe's legs are gone because ESPN told us over and over again about his great "athleticism" so clearly it must be something else;)

Fritz is frustrating to cheer for but he still managed to pull out the fourth set despite not playing great largely because Tiafoe seems to have lost energy. Tiafoe played the last few games as if his legs were gone but it could be temporary. We'll see. Either way whoever wins Sinner will be...

Almost certainly something to that. The court is named after Arthur Ashe while the entire facility is named after Billie Jean King - no doubt for the lesbian's Herculean effort to defeat 55 year old youngster Bobby Riggs in a completely staged match. Sinner is going to win the first match, as...

The US Open has decided to give the two Americans, who played on Tuesday, the later night match while giving Sinner/Draper the earlier afternoon match despite Sinner's QF match being played a day later on Wednesday. There is an unofficial understanding that the guys who played a day earlier...

Tiafoe leading Dimitrov 2-1, now in the 4th set. Dimitrov's backhand has improved but he's still not that good and I fear we could end up with Tiafoe in the final. The winner plays American Taylor Fritz (who was great today) in the S-F. Needless to say it would be a huge coup for the multiculti...

I remember Caniggia scoring against both Brazil and the hosts Itay at the 1990 World Cup. Without those goals they would not have made the final which Caniggia did not play in due to suspension.

I have no idea what constitutes a penalty in this sport anymore. Kane kicked the ball before Dumfries made contact with him. At least that's how it looked on the one replay I saw.

France has not scored a goal in open play

I just caught the end but if I'm not mistaken France finished their match against Portugal with only one white player on the pitch.

Highly unusual. Also, Uruguay got a goal that looked offside. Refereeing in Latin American soccer has always been suspicious. Meanwhile in Stuttgart Antonio Rüdiger messed up on the winning goal for Spain. Germany out of their own party.

The USA blew it against Panama, which as some here pointed out was a debacle brought about by an undisciplined, easily needled black player - the son of a Liberian AC Milan legend! - getting red-carded early in the match. Uruguay was always going to be tough. I don't follow the USMNT, but I have...

Looks like the Slovaks have blown it. This is what happens when you sit back on a lead.

I watched that match. When Timothy Weah - son of ex-Milan player George Weah of Liberia - was red-carded the US were winning but it all went south after that. They conceded a goal within minutes of going down to ten men and were under pressure for most of the rest of the match. Panama is a...

England get to play Slovakia, one of the weakest teams, in the next round. England are definitely in the easier bracket but at least Italy, a team that can never be ruled out no matter how bad they are playing, would likely be the next team they'd face. France and Belgium play each other That's...

I was referring to the match against Italy. I've only seen these guys - Williams, Rodri, Pedri, - playing a handful of times this year so I can't compare them in general. I'm pretty appalled by this German team. It also looks like the worst politicians there are pushing them because they...

Unfortunately, Williams was also Spain's best player against Italy, which means he isn't going away.

Belgium seems to have concluded that they couldn't win with North Africans so they are going to do what the French did and switch to sub-saharan Africans. I'm old enough to remember them making the World Cup semi-finals in 1986 with just Dutch & French-speaking Belgians & one ethnic Italian...

That England team looks worse than ever from a racial perspective. The Netherlands weren't much better. And then there's Germany. To make matters worse they all won against virtually all-white teams.

I caught part of it earlier today and Rory was leading and walking with that swagger. Pretty shocked that he missed that last putt given how confident he looked earlier on.

NZ v Ireland & France v SA were just fantastic. Some of the best sports entertainment I've seen this decade. Unfortunately, the semi-finals are likely to be one-sided as neither Argentina nor England look good enough to seriously challenge NZ & SA respectively. (OK, maybe England have an outside...

Djokovic has looked heavy-legged throughout the match but it looks like he's going to win #24.

I remember both Namibian and Zimbabwean teams in the past were mostly white, just like their cricket teams. I just looked up the Namibian players and as expected they're pretty much all Afrikaner-sounding names. Even in Canada the best rugby player of recent years was a South African-born guy...

The same tennis journalists who welcomed Shelton's irreverence and spunk are crying that it was unbecoming of a 36 year old man (Djokovic) to humiliate the 20 year old Shelton. When I was growing up it was common to say "if you are going to dish it out you better learn how to take it".

Djokovic defeats arrogant mixed race Ben Shelton in straight sets then mocks his telephone celebration to the seething anger of the hostile New York crowd - and Shelton himself who was surly during the hand shake. I love it!