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Ons Jabeur is one of a number of Muslim making history in sport. These are their hopes for the next generation
CNN — Don’t be surprised if we hear more about Muslim women in sports this year. Tunisian tennis star Ons Jabeur is the No. 2 seed at the first grand slam of the 2023 tennis season – the Australian Open, which got underway on Monday. Jabeur turned heads in 2022 with thrilling performances at Wimbledon and the US Open, and she’s not the only Muslim woman athlete in the spotlight. Doaa Elghobashy has been training to help Egypt qualify for the 2024 Paris Games in beach volleyball. She and her teammate were the first Egyptian women to compete in Beach volleyball at the Olympics in 2016. Meanwhile, three-time NCAA All…
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Georgia’s dominant national championship win sends clear message to rest of sport: Don’t even think about it
LOS ANGELES — Try to pick the moment when Georgia became the college football standard. Whatever your answer, it sure as hell wasn’t Monday when the No. 1 Bulldogs won their second straight College Football Playoff National Championship and stripped not only their opponent but the rest of the sport of all hope. What else are you supposed to say in what qualified as the biggest beatdown ever a national title game? Georgia scored nine touchdowns, won by more than eight touchdowns against outmanned No. 3 TCU and sent a shiver of fear through the other 129 FBS teams that read something like this: Don’t even think about it. After losing…
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Looking to turn chips into a ‘chip, TCU may alter sport with victory in College Football Playoff title game
LOS ANGELES — Johnny Hodges loves his chips. “We’re a team full of chips,” the TCU linebacker said. In Hodges shorthand, that translates to chips on shoulders. A cliché, sure, but an entree into the heart of the No. 3 Horned Frogs. They weren’t meant to be here in the College Football Playoff National Championship. In fact, the last team in a similar position was BYU in 1984. Those Cougars are the most recent national champions coming from outside the current Power Five. TCU as a member of the Big 12 is clearly a Power Five team these days, but it’s been a league-hopper over the last quarter century. When…
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The alternative 2022 sports awards: quotes, gaffes and animal cameos | Sport
Quote of the year Phil Mickelson, February, on the Saudi LIV golf breakaway. “They’re scary motherfuckers to get involved with. They killed Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights. They execute people over there for being gay. Knowing all of this, why would I even consider it? Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates.” Runner-up Eddie Howe, March, asked about the 81 people killed in one day by Newcastle’s new owners. “I’m just going to answer questions about football. I’m still bitterly disappointed about the defeat.” Politics awards: MP of the year Nadine Dorries – ex-secretary of state for sport and essence…
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Lilly Reale Wins Honda Sport Award for Soccer

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 UCLA sophomore defender Lilly Reale has been named the Honda Sport Award winner for Soccer, as announced Monday by Chris Voelz, Executive Director of THE Collegiate Women of all ages Sports activities Awards (CWSA). Reale becomes just the 3rd Bruin to win the Honda Sport Award for Soccer, becoming a member of Earth Cup champions Abby Dahlkemper (2013) and Sam Mewis (2014). Reale also joins soccer legend Christine Sinclair as the only other participant to acquire the award as a sophomore. “I am exceptionally honored and grateful to have gained the Honda Sport Award for soccer,” claimed Reale. “To have even been regarded for…
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Online streaming poses ‘existential threat’ to free sport on Australian TV, broadcasters say | Australia sport
The rise of online streaming services is a “real and existential threat” to free sport on television, claims the peak body representing Australia’s commercial broadcasters, which argues new entrants to the entertainment market should face tougher restrictions when bidding for rights to show important sporting fixtures. Free TV Australia has also called for more women’s sports to be shown on free-to-air broadcasts, including matches from the Matildas football team and all games in the women’s Fifa World Cup next year, in a review of the federal anti-siphoning list. “The real and existential threat to the anti-siphoning scheme is the one posed by the non-inclusion of online content service providers,” Free…
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