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Nine-times Wimbledon singles champion Martina Navratilova said on Sunday that players caught in match fixing scams should be banned from the sport for life. Responding to media reports that the grasscourt tournament is at the centre of a huge betting scandal, the American said the key to stamping out corruption was for players to have nothing to do with anyone asking them to fix matches. "The only way to really deal with it would be to make extremely severe penalties," she told BBC...
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Nine-times Wimbledon singles champion Martina Navratilova said on Sunday that players caught in match fixing scams should be banned from the sport for life. Responding to media reports that the grasscourt tournament is at the centre of a huge betting scandal, the American said the key to stamping out corruption was for players to have nothing to do with anyone asking them to fix matches. "The only way to really deal with it would be to make extremely severe penalties," she told BBC...
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Starting an exercise routine is no easy task - it is even harder to stick with one. This is the focus of a new study on the "Step and Stride with Ruby" walking program released today by AARP and the Red Hat Society with support from the AARP Foundation's Women's Leadership Circle. Over 500 women in Red Hat Society Chapters participated in the study, which found that friendly competition and participation in group activities was the key to sticking with an exercise regimen...
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After a Wimbledon tournament full of shocks, Martina Navratilova said it was time the top women players "stepped up to the plate" following the shock retirement of world number one Justine Henin. Navratilova, nine times champion at Wimbledon, said: "It is a changing of the guard. It is the first time ever we don't have one of the top four seeds in the quarters." The tournament lost much of its glamour when Ana Ivanovic and Maria Sharapova were knocked out in early rounds and Jelena Jankovic...
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The question has been asked time and time again. Martina Navratilova or Steffi Graf? Which is the greatest female tennis player of all time? My view is this: Graf was the better in singles, while Navratilova was on top in doubles and mixed doubles.
That being said, I don't know if anyone will...
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert were among the first to appear. Last year, it was Lindsay Davenport. This year, Martina Hingis will participate in the annual event at the Harbor Point Tennis Club. Hingis, who spent 209 ...
When you think of American tennis, Chris Evert has to pop up. Yes, she and Martina Navratilova each collected 18 Grand Slam singles titles. However, Navratilova is a former Czechoslovakian who defected to the United States... When you think of ...
AARP, one of the world's largest member organizations with over 39 million members and the leading organization for people 50+, is bringing its 50th Anniversary celebration to Washington D.C. with two monumental events beginning Thursday, September 4 ...
On Sept. 6, 1837, the Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio went co-educational. In 1901 President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. (McKinley died eight days later; he ...
NEW YORK : Former UCLA softball coach Sue Enquist and Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller are the newest members of the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame. They were inducted along with former Japanese golfer Hisako Higuchi and Algerian track star ...
Martina Navratilova (born October 18 , 1956 , in Prague , Czechoslovakia ) is a former World No. 1 woman tennis player. Billie Jean King said about Navratilova in 2006, "She's the ...