The FEU Lady Tamaraws are moving closer to a sweep of the eliminations Friday after dumping UP Lady Maroons, 48-31, in 75th UAAP women’s basketball tournament at the San Juan Arena.
The United States women’s team won the inaugural 3-on-3 world basketball championship by beating France 17-16 in Sunday’s final.
A second-straight volleyball gold inspired summersaults from Brazil. It brought tears to the United States.
In her quest for a gold medal in women’s match racing, Australia’s Olivia Price instead found herself being swept out of the back of her boat and into the big waves on Weymouth Bay.
Candace Parker scored a game-high 21 points and the United States won their fifth Olympic women’s basketball gold medal in a row by overpowering France 86-50 in Saturday’s championship game.
Women’s boxing already had a star. She just needed a stage.
Nicola Adams and the first Olympic women’s boxers have little time to enjoy the history they made in their debut Sunday. They’ve all got to fight for medals on Monday.
Australian boxer Naomi-Lee Fischer-Rasmussen added a feminine touch to women’s boxing’s historic Olympic debut on Sunday when she wore a skirt in her first-round defeat to Sweden’s Anna Laurell.
Saudi sportswomen, who have been given the go-ahead to compete in the Olympics for the first time in London later this month, must respect the ultra-conservative kingdom’s rules, its sports chief said in remarks published Monday.
The ATP grass-court tournament at Halle could expand to include a women’s WTA event in 2014, organizers announced on Tuesday after a visit by Australian WTA Tour Supervisor Pam Whytcross.
American Claressa Shields won the 75-kilogram title Saturday night in the American Boxing Confederation’s Women’s Elite Continental Championships, outpointing three-time world champion Mary Spencer of Canada 27-14.
The head of the Saudi Olympic Committee has ruled out sending women athletes from the ultra-conservative kingdom to the London Olympics this summer, local dailies reported on Thursday.
Maria Sharapova’s route to a first Wimbledon title has suddenly become doable after the earlier-than-expected exits of Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki.
