Serena Williams

Serina World champion Serena Williams is being heavily criticized over remarks she made about the victim of the Steubenville Ohio rape case. A 16-year-old girl who was raped by high school football players, Trent Mays and Ma’Lik Richmond, who were each sentenced to a year in juvenile jail in March this year. During an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Serena blamed the girl for putting herself in a position where the boys could rape her. She said: “Do you think it was fair, what they got...Read Full Story

Some interesting comments by tennis champion Serena Williams, have some fans and critics scratching their heads a bit. During a recent Rolling Stone interview she was asked about the Steubenville rape victim case. [Here's the backstory about the case. A 16-year-old girl was raped and assaulted by two Steubenville (Ohio) High School football players. The girl says that she was drunk at the time and doesn't remember the incident in its entirety. Later, a video surfaces of her being raped. There...Read Full Story

NAIJA BLISS: Serena Williams has sparked an intense backlash after she suggested the 16-year-old victim in the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case was asking to be  assaulted. The world Number 1 tennis star made the astonishing indictment in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, which was posted online on  Tuesday. In the article, Williams said the victim  ‘shouldn’t have put herself in that position’ and described her as ‘lucky.’ Some  are already labeling the 31-year-old’s remarks the most...Read Full Story

Yesterday, an excerpt from Serena Williams's interview with Rolling Stone was released, revealing her comments about the Steubenville, OH, rape case. The case made headlines after a YouTube video leaked in January of drunk Steubenville high school athletes joking about a girl who was raped by two football players. Serena told the Rolling Stone reporter, "Do you think it was fair, what they got? They did something stupid, but I don't know. I'm not blaming the girl, but if you're a 16 year old...Read Full Story

Tennis ace Serena Williams is distancing herself from controversial comments she allegedly made to a magazine interviewer about the rape of a drunken 16-year-old girl in Steubenville, Ohio after appearing to suggest the teen was partly responsible for the sexual assault.Rolling Stone contributor Stephen Rodrick recently sat down with the sports champ to chat about her career, but the topic of conversation strayed when a news clip about the March rape conviction of two Steubenville High School...Read Full Story