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An ode to Russian and Eastern European women's tennis players you've vaguely heard of but can't entirely keep straight.

A postcard from AT&T Park.

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Monday. Andy Murray won his first career Grand Slam, outlasting Novak Djokovic in a five-set marathon to take the U.S. Open title. The Scottish Murray credited hi...

Andy Murray wins the U.S. Open.

Andy Roddick announced last night that he will be hanging up his spurs whenever he completes his run at the U.S. Open. The 30-year-old, once America's great tennis hope, leaves the game with a U.S. Open trophy (2003), four other Grand Slam final appe...

Andy Murray and the undeniable oddness of Olympic tennis.

Sunday's French Open final was an absolute mess. Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, meeting in the championship round of a Grand Slam for the fourth straight time, fought delays, poor conditions, and their own sporadic play in a match that lacked their...

We've got a big situation in the Roland-Garros men's quarterfinals. Two situations, actually. 1. Novak Djokovic, the top player in the world and the man currently attempting to hold all four Grand Slam titles at the same time for the first time si...

The always-changing youth of tennis.

If you missed the action in Miami on Monday night, here's video of Giancarlo Stanton hitting a grand slam and temporarily breaking the Marlins' new scoreboard. Watching that clip, it's hard not to think about the scene from The Natural in which Ro...

CC Sabathia serves up a grand slam in the first inning of his first start. Joey Votto's hitting a buck-fifty-four through four games. For fantasy players, these are minor annoyances. Sabathia's probably going to be a top starter again this year, and ...

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Monday The dream semifinal is set in Australia, as both Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal won their quarterfinal matches. Nadal holds a 7-2 lead in Grand Slam matches, ...

In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Monday. Nelson Cruz hit the first walk-off grand slam in postseason history as the Rangers beat the Tigers 7-3 in 11 innings. The moment was so joyous that when Cr...

In her fourth round match, Samantha Stosur played the longest tiebreak in women's Grand Slam history, a 30-point back-and-forth against Maria Kirilenko. This was after she was part of the longest women's U.S. Open match: a three-hour, 16-minute battl...

The wayward phenom dazzled the weekend crowds at Flushing Meadows. But have we already heaped too much onto Donald Young?

On Thursday night, the New York Yankees set a record with three grand slams in a single game. The magical evening brought the grand slam back into the forefront of the national discourse, and today it's barely an overstatement to call it the most sig...