In 5 months, Detroit’s own team for the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) will begin its first season.

Wisconsin defender Caroline Harvey was selected by the Vancouver Goldeneyes with the first pick in the PWHL draft in the latest major milestone achievement for the U.S. gold medal-winner and three-time college champion.

Donald Trump was booed loudly by fans inside Madison Square Garden when he was shown on video screens during the national anthem prior to Game 3 of the NBA Finals.

Rafael Nadal, Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula were among the players paying tribute to Howard Fendrich a day after the longtime AP Tennis Writer died.

Billie Jean King celebrated earning a college degree 65 years after first taking classes.

Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka and former No. 1 Daniil Medvedev will continue to play under neutral status after the International Tennis Federation announces that it will “not change its existing position” over suspensions for Belarus and Russia.

Italian Open organizers are supporting tennis players who are urging a boycott unless the Grand Slam tournaments improve their prize money.

New York City will hold a series of free events for soccer fans hoping to catch World Cup matches, but don't want to spend an arm and a leg on tickets.

Cadillac brings a new American team to the Formula 1 grid as the season opens in Australia.

Skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin is leaning into the challenge of her fourth Olympics.

The Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday in Park City, Utah, marking its final year there.

Nick Kyrgios has won the latest version of the “Battle of the Sexes” in tennis.

Charli XCX is heading to the Sundance Film Festival in January 2026.

Flavor Flav, the iconic rapper and reality star, has become the official hype man for the USA Bobsled and Skeleton team.

Judd Apatow has released a new book called “Comedy Nerd,” a 570-page memoir-scrapbook filled with memorabilia from his career.

Jasmine Paolini beats Jessica Pegula on the fourth match point as defending champion Italy wins the Billie Jean King Cup with a comprehensive victory over the United States.

American tennis star Taylor Townsend has apologized for making disparaging comments about Chinese food before the United States plays Kazakhstan at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Shenzhen, China.

Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart's 3-on-3 women's basketball league, Unrivaled, has gained significant investment from big names in sports.

Fans enduring a lengthy wait to get into the U.S. Open final booed and chanted “Let us in.

For decades, U.S. Open women's singles champions received a replica trophy that was much smaller than the ones the men's title winners were allowed to take home.

Two days before the U.S. Open’s singles competition began, Billie Jean King sat around a table in the Arthur Ashe building with a small group of up-and-coming players on the women’s tour.

Althea Gibson is front and center at the U.S. Open this year on the 75th anniversary of her breaking the color barrier in tennis.

When the court lights flicker on at the U.S. Open, tennis stars shine under illumination designed to cut light pollution.

Just as Wimbledon is winding down, action at the home of the U.S. Open will heat up.

Players walking to play at Wimbledon’s second-biggest stadium, known as No. 1 Court, are passing through a hallway renovated this year to display memorabilia and photos from the arena’s history.

The 2025 edition of Wimbledon brings several milestone anniversaries with it.

Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova says she plans to retire in a few months.

Susan Brownmiller, a prominent feminist and author of the 1960s and ’70s whose “Against Our Will” was a landmark and debated bestseller about rape, has died.

PWHL advisory board member Stan Kasten is laying out an ambitious vision of the league's future that includes further expansion and broadening its reach to Europe.

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner is dominating men’s tennis and Italy swept both the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup team titles last year.

Kerry Kennedy is working on a memoir about her late mother, Ethel Kennedy.

Billie Jean King became the first woman to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the new sports entertainment category.

It’s a new season but the Los Angeles Dodgers are still celebrating their 2024 World Series championship.

When Aaron Pierre was cast as Mufasa, the weight of following in the late James Earl Jones’ legendary footsteps was enough to rattle any actor.

Iga Swiatek is the second high-profile tennis player to test positive for a banned substance this year.

Rafael Nadal’s relatively low-key retirement ceremony at the Davis Cup has been defended by the head of the International Tennis Federation as being dictated by the 22-time Grand Slam champion’s wishes.

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner and Matteo Berrettini won their singles matches to lift defending champion Italy past Australia 2-0 and back into the Davis Cup final.

Rafael Nadal wanted to play his last match before retiring at home in Spain and as part of Spain's Davis Cup team.

Two-time Grand Slam finalist Jasmine Paolini has capped a breakthrough season by leading Italy to its first Billie Jean King Cup title since 2013.

Iga Swiatek has beaten Paula Badosa in three sets and Poland has knocked out host Spain 2-0 in the opening round of the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Malaga.

The Houston Astrodome has been in limbo, waiting for its chance at a second life since being shuttered more than 15 years ago.

With the finals of the Billie Jean King Cup and Davis Cup set to be played in Malaga, Spain, this month, the International Tennis Federation is making a donation to the Spanish Red Cross to support relief and recovery efforts for the recent catastrophic flooding in the country.

Billie Jean King started the Women’s Sports Foundation with a $5,000 check.

Tennis great Billie Jean King will preside over the 136th Rose Parade as grand marshal next year.

Billie Jean King is now the first individual female athlete to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.

Does American tennis have a pickleball problem.

How well do you know the U.S. Open.

Play in the year’s last Grand Slam tennis tournament is scheduled to begin at the U.S. Open on Monday.

A year after becoming a Grand Slam champion, Coco Gauff is teaming up with the “Breakfast of Champions.”.

Coco Gauff, Novak Djokovic and other players at the U.S. Open will be playing for a record total of $75 million in compensation at the year’s last Grand Slam tennis tournament.

Reaction from the sports world and beyond to the death of baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays.

Naomi Osaka put Japan a step away from reaching the Billie Jean King Cup Finals with a 6-2, 7-6 (5) victory over Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva.

New York City officials have approved a plan to build a 25,000-seat stadium for Major League Soccer’s New York City Football Club next to the New York Mets’ stadium, Citi Field.

Hall of Famers Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova are calling on the women’s tennis tour to stay out of Saudi Arabia.

The Associated Press went behind the scenes to capture what former tennis star and gender equality champion Billie Jean King referred to as the birth of women's hockey.

Leylah Fernandez and Marina Stakusic won their singles matches as Canada defeated Italy 2-0 to claim its first-ever Billie Jean King Cup.

Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova have sent the Czech Republic into the semifinals of the Billie Jean King Cup by beating American duo Danielle Collins and Taylor Townsend 6-3, 7-5 in their decisive doubles match.

The Billie Jean King Cup Finals will offer a record total of $9.6 million in prize money.

Lindsay Davenport will replace Kathy Rinaldi as the U.S. captain for the Billie Jean King Cup after this year’s competition ends.

Billie Jean King’s victory in the “Battle of the Sexes” was a milestone moment as women pushed for equality on the playing field and beyond.

Former President Barack Obama congratulated Coco Gauff on her U.S. Open title, less than two weeks after attending her first comeback of the tournament.

The women’s tennis tour will hold the 2023 WTA Finals in Cancun, Mexico.

The smell of marijuana has become a stink at the U.S. Open.

The new Professional Women’s Hockey League has unveiled its Original Six franchises.

After a rousing tribute from former first lady Michelle Obama, Billie Jean King on Monday celebrated the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Open becoming the first sporting event to offer equal prize money to female and male competitors, promising to never stop fighting to maintain that hard-won progress.

Former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, were in the Arthur Ashe Stadium stands to watch Coco Gauff’s first-round victory at the U.S. Open.

When Billie Jean King won the U.S. Open in 1972, she didn’t follow with the usual remarks about hoping to win again the next year.

Total prize money and player compensation at this year’s U.S. Open tennis tournament will reach a record $65 million.

The Billie Jean King Cup has a new part-owner: Billie Jean King herself.

Princess Kate was back again at Wimbledon and this time with her family in tow.

Princess Kate was back in the Royal Box at Wimbledon for the women’s final along with several former champions and some stars of the entertainment world.

Marketa Vondrousova has become the first unseeded woman to win Wimbledon.

Ons Jabeur has defeated Aryna Sabalenka 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-3 to reach the Wimbledon final for the second consecutive year.

Only six of the 128 women entered in singles at Wimbledon work with a female coach.

Tennis appears set to follow the path of golf and other sports by doing business with Saudi Arabia and its $650 billion sovereign wealth fund.

The stage is set for a new women’s hockey league to begin in January.

It took more than three decades after the founding of the Women’s Tennis Association for all four Grand Slam tournaments to agree to give the same prize money to female and male players.

Billie Jean King thinks back on the landmark gathering of female tennis players at a London hotel shortly before they competed at Wimbledon a half-century ago and acknowledges she wasn’t sure how things would go that day.

They’re at the top of their sport.

The All England Club will pay for two rooms for Ukrainian tennis players and their teams during the grass-court season and will donate what could top more than $600,000 after deciding to allow players from Russia and Belarus back into the tournament despite the ongoing war.

President Joe Biden has scrapped the idea of inviting to the White House the NCAA champion Louisiana State women’s basketball team along with Iowa’s players, who lost the title to LSU.

The 2023 Australian Open will be the first Grand Slam tournament to be held since Serena Williams walked away from tennis with a farewell at the U.S. Open shortly before her 41st birthday.

Hall of Fame golfer Kathy Whitworth has died at the age of 83.

Angel City FC founding investor Alexis Ohanian is calling for a safe work environment in the National Women’s Soccer League.

South Carolina coach Dawn Staley is set to receive the Billie Jean King Leadership Award at the Women's Sports Foundation's annual dinner in New York.

Flag football is rising in popularity, especially among girls.

Reaction to Roger Federer’s announcement that he will retire from tennis after the Laver Cup in London next week.

Frances Tiafoe calls his run to the U.S. Open semifinals ‘a Cinderella story.

The next woman who must deal with the daunting task of playing Serena Williams at the U.S. Open, Ajla Tomljanovic, considers herself an admirer of the 23-time Grand Slam champion.

When Serena Williams won the 1999 U.S. Open for her first Grand Slam title at age 17, she wore white beads in her hair.

The Professional Women’s Hockey Players’ Association is resuming its Dream Gap barnstorming tour for a fourth consecutive year.

The Jackie Robinson Museum has opened in Manhattan with a gala ceremony attended by the 100-year-old widow of the barrier-breaking ballplayer and two of his children.

Detained WNBA star Brittney Griner was front and center at The ESPYS.

The WTA women’s professional tennis tour and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are partnering to raise awareness about — and money for — women’s health and nutrition around the world.

Ons Jabeur added a new “first” to her résumé by becoming the first Arab woman to reach the semifinals at a Grand Slam tournament.

Roger Federer says he hopes to play one more time at Wimbledon before retiring from tennis.

Centre Court at the current Church Road location of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club opened in 1922.

U.S. national soccer team star Megan Rapinoe is among a group of leading sports figures who have expressed anger over the Supreme Court’s decision to strip the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion, decrying an erosion of rights that women have had for a generation.

It's the 50th anniversary of Title IX.

Ann Meyers Drysdale was the first woman to receive an athletic scholarship at UCLA.