Rap mogul Rick Ross, right, speaks in a hospitality class hosted by entrepreneur David Grutman.
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A Miami nightclub owner and restaurateur has been adding star power to his class on entrepreneurship and hospitality.
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Donor conception, surrogacy, artificial womb technologies … a new book delves into how families are changing.
Susanne Augustesen of Denmark takes a shot during the final of the 1971 Women’s World Cup in Mexico City.
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Thousands of fans packed out stadiums for the 1971 women’s World Cup, but it has been virtually erased from history.
Serena Williams has her eyes on Nigeria in a new venture.
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Serena Williams’s investment in a Nigerian digital company shows why the country’s technology sector is attractive.
Serena Williams celebrates a win at her final professional tournament, the 2022 US Open.
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She blazed a trail for Black women athletes – despite the challenges they face in sport and society.
Serena Williams serves in her quarterfinal match during the 2019 Australian Open.
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There is no understating the impact Williams has had on the game itself. But her role in helping sports journalists reimagine the scope of their work is a key part of her enduring legacy.
Forty is the new thirty.
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Better knowledge of the right training strategies is one reason more athletes are continuing to compete longer than they used to.
Williams has won 23 grand slams in her career.
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More women should feel they have a choice to continue playing after becoming a mother – which is why the right kind of support is important.
Serena Wiliams is on the board of a high-profile Spac.
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Both Spacs and bitcoin went rocketing up in price only to come crashing back down. And that’s not all they have in common.
‘I’m here so I don’t get fined,’ Seattle Seahawks’ star running back Marshawn Lynch repeatedly told a Jan. 27, 2015, press conference on media day for NFL Super Bowl XLIX. And then he left.
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Athletes no longer need the press to communicate with fans. They can do that directly through social channels – and unless sports reporters do a better job asking questions, they may become obsolete.
Few Americans would care about how to best accommodate transgender athletes if they weren’t winning events.
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Since there is no typical transgender athlete, broad rules don’t seem appropriate. But that’s exactly what legislation seeks to do.
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Baseliners are too dominant. A true golden era would see more clashes between different playing styles.
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Research shows that when professional players rise to No. 1 in the world rankings, it often coincides with the broader development of tennis talent in their home countries.
Bianca Andreescu serves to Serena Williams during the women’s singles final of the U.S. Open tennis championships, on her way to making Canadian history.
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Bianca Andreescu’s success provides an example of how to cover women’s sport and promote the athletic achievement of female athletes with hype and enthusiasm.
Serena Williams looks at her box during the women’s final of the U.S. Open tennis tournament against Naomi Osaka, of Japan on Sept. 8, 2018, in New York.
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Serena Williams challenged decades of stereotypes when she revealed her anger after she disagreed with a U.S. Open umpire. A racist caricature and calls to boycott her playing by umpires followed.
Naomi Osaka is the first Japanese woman to claim a Grand Slam singles title.
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Sexism in sport plays out on and off the field. Differences in marketable qualities for endorsement deals as well reactions to male versus female athletes behaving badly are evidence of this.
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No one is saying the tennis star wasn’t angry. But it’s worth asking whether you thought she was more angry because she is a woman.
Racist caricatures began appearing in the US as slavery was coming to an end. They have persisted into the 21st century.
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The Herald Sun claims its cartoon of Serena Williams isn’t racist, but it draws on 200 years of caricaturing of African women.
Serena Williams challenges umpire Carlos Ramos during the women’s final of the 2018 US Open Tennis.
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Cartoonists have to compress their images, so they often use stereotypes. This objectifies the subject and is thus, inevitably, an othering process.
Lost: Serena Williams after losing to Naomi Osaka in the women’s final of the US Open Tennis Championships, New York.
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We need to consider changing the rules of tennis, to make them more consistent across tournaments and players.