NEW YORK, NY(SMI-SPORTS-AUGUST 25-28, 2022)-The Citi Taste of Tennis, known for its culinary and tennis events featuring renowned chefs and world-ranked tennis players, hosted its annual 2022 Citi Taste of Tennis New York(Thursday August 25,) with the 4-times Grand-slam champion Naomi Osaka(Japan) and top-ranked Australia Nick Kyrgios(World#26) in attendance prior to the kick-off the 2022 US Open Tennis Grand Slam at Cipriani-42nd St in Midtown Manhattan....

NEW YORK, NY(SMI-SPORTS-AUGUST 25-28, 2022)-The Citi Taste of Tennis, known for its culinary and tennis events featuring renowned chefs and world-ranked tennis players, hosted its annual 2022 Citi Taste of Tennis New York(Thursday August 25,) with the 4-times Grand-slam champion Naomi Osaka(Japan) and top-ranked Australia Nick Kyrgios(World#26) in attendance prior to the kick-off the 2022 US Open Tennis Grand Slam at Cipriani-42nd St in Midtown Manhattan....

NEW YORK, NY(SMI-SPORTS-AUGUST 25-28, 2022)-The Citi Taste of Tennis, known for its culinary and tennis events featuring renowned chefs and world-ranked tennis players, hosted its annual 2022 Citi Taste of Tennis New York(Thursday August 25,) with the 4-times Grand-slam champion Naomi Osaka(Japan) and top-ranked Australia Nick Kyrgios(World#26) in attendance prior to the kick-off the 2022 US Open Tennis Grand Slam at Cipriani-42nd St in Midtown Manhattan....

NEW YORK, NY(SMI-SPORTS-AUGUST 25-28, 2022)-The Citi Taste of Tennis, known for its culinary and tennis events featuring renowned chefs and world-ranked tennis players, hosted its annual 2022 Citi Taste of Tennis New York(Thursday August 25,) with the 4-times Grand-slam champion Naomi Osaka(Japan) and top-ranked Australia Nick Kyrgios(World#26) in attendance prior to the kick-off the 2022 US Open Tennis Grand Slam at Cipriani-42nd St in Midtown Manhattan....

NEW YORK, NY(SMI-SPORTS-AUGUST 25-28, 2022)-The Citi Taste of Tennis, known for its culinary and tennis events featuring renowned chefs and world-ranked tennis players, hosted its annual 2022 Citi Taste of Tennis New York(Thursday August 25,) with the 4-times Grand-slam champion Naomi Osaka(Japan) and top-ranked Australia Nick Kyrgios(World#26) in attendance prior to the kick-off the 2022 US Open Tennis Grand Slam at Cipriani-42nd St in Midtown Manhattan....

NEW YORK, NY(SMI-SPORTS-AUGUST 25-28, 2022)-The Citi Taste of Tennis, known for its culinary and tennis events featuring renowned chefs and world-ranked tennis players, hosted its annual 2022 Citi Taste of Tennis New York(Thursday August 25,) with the 4-times Grand-slam champion Naomi Osaka(Japan) and top-ranked Australia Nick Kyrgios(World#26) in attendance prior to the kick-off the 2022 US Open Tennis Grand Slam at Cipriani-42nd St in Midtown Manhattan....

NEW YORK, NY(SMI-SPORTS-AUGUST 25-28, 2022)-The Citi Taste of Tennis, known for its culinary and tennis events featuring renowned chefs and world-ranked tennis players, hosted its annual 2022 Citi Taste of Tennis New York(Thursday August 25,) with the 4-times Grand-slam champion Naomi Osaka(Japan) and top-ranked Australia Nick Kyrgios(World#26) in attendance prior to the kick-off the 2022 US Open Tennis Grand Slam at Cipriani-42nd St in Midtown Manhattan....

NEW YORK, NY(SMI-SPORTS-AUGUST 25-28, 2022)-The Citi Taste of Tennis, known for its culinary and tennis events featuring renowned chefs and world-ranked tennis players, hosted its annual 2022 Citi Taste of Tennis New York(Thursday August 25,) with the 4-times Grand-slam champion Naomi Osaka(Japan) and top-ranked Australia Nick Kyrgios(World#26) in attendance prior to the kick-off the 2022 US Open Tennis Grand Slam at Cipriani-42nd St in Midtown Manhattan....

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL(SMI-SPORTS, DEC. 29-31.22)-Brazilian Football(Soccer) legend " Pele " known as "The King of the Beautiful Game " passed away Today Thursday Dec. 29, local time surrounded by his closest family at the Albert Einstein hospital in Sao Paulo.Edson Arantes do Nascimento "Pele" was considered the greatest and most successful player of the 20th century, & who carried the Brazilian national football (Soccer) team to win three-world cup titles died peacefully after battling colon cancer

MUNICH, GERMANY (SMI-EUROPE, SPORTS, 08.16.21)-The FC Bayern world is standing still today. The club and all its fans are mourning the death of Gerd Muller, who passed away on Sunday morning at the age of 75. Müller made history with Bayern and the Germany national team. He scored an incredible 566 goals in 607 competitive appearances for Bayern and still holds the record for the most goa

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (SMI-EUROPE-SPORTS, 12.10.20)-FIFA and the world of the football has learned today with much sadness and emotion the terrible news of the passing of Paolo Rossi at the age of 64 years. Football loses another true legend, a symbol, and another great footballer, who made the generation dream and rejoice, especially in the 1980s. ​ Paolo Rossi was undoubtedly the hero and the protagonist of the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain, the artifice of that unforgettable adventure that broug

ZURICH,SWITZERLAND(SMI-SPORTS, 11.25.20)-Football is in mourning after one of the sport’s most prodigious talents, Diego Maradona, passed away at the age of 60 in his native Buenos Aires. FIFA President Gianni Infantino paid a personal tribute: “Today is an unbelievably sad day. Our Diego left us. Our hearts – of all of us who loved him for how he was, and for what he represented – have stopped beating for a moment. Our silence, our tears,…..

NEW YORK,NY(SMI-PHILANTHROPY, 03.03.20)-The World Values Network commemorated its Eight annual Champions of Jewish Values Awards dinner gala this evening March 03, 2020, honoring renowned philanthropist, investor and Chairman of the Board of Carnegie Hall " Robert F. Smith", at the iconic Carnegie Hall in Manhattan, New York City….Photo: Evander Holyfield (Former US boxer & The only four-time world heavyweight champion) with his daughter Ivette & Evander Jr. at the gala...

NEW YORK,NY(SMI-PHILANTHROPY,10.04.19)-In celebration of the SportsBall 2019 and its 25th Annual Black Tie & Sneakers Gala, the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health(AAIUH) honored last Wednesday (10.02.19), tennis legend Stan Smith(2-Times Grand Slam Single Champion), Cheryl Wills (Emmy-Award winning Journalist), Sydney C. Butts, MD & Guy Vickers, during a sold-out event at the Grand-Hyatt Hotel NYC.Photo:Stan Smith (USA 2-Times Grand Slam Champion,Wimbledon 1972, US Open 1971 )...

NEW YORK,NY(SMI-SPORTS,08-26-09.08.19)-The 2019 US Open Grand-Slam kicked-Off its 139th edition with US World ranked#8 Serena Williams defeating Maria Sharapova(US-Russi) in 2-sets (6-1,6-1) with no problem, and in route to capture her 24th title in the opening match at Arthur Ashe Tennis Stadium in Flushing Meadows,NY.Photo: Mike Tyson(US Boxing Champ) known for being the youngest boxer to win the World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council & International Boxing Federation titles @ US Open

NEW YORK(SMI-SPORTS,09.08.19)-The US Open concluded its 139 (2019) edition over the weekend, with Rafael Nadal (World-ranked#2, Spain), winning his 4rd US Open Grand Slam crown and 19th overall, after defeating Russia's Daniil Medvedev (World-ranked ATP#5), in 5-ferocious sets (7-5,6-3,5-7,4-6,6-4), that took almost 5 hours (4hr:50) to complete, and during sold-out final match of the 2019 US Open Grand Slam in Flushing Meadows. A sensational match that ketp the audience excited and on their toes

NEW YORK(SMI-SPORTS,09.08.19)-The 2019 US Open women's single champion " Bianca Andreescu" from Canada, who defeated Serena Williams in two-sets in the finals, celebrated the winning of her first major Grand Slam title today--by visiting the Top of the Rock Observation Deck and posing for photos with her Trophy for press members that gathered to congratulate the new US Open champion at Rockefeller Center in the heart of Manhattan, NYC.Photo:Bianca Andreescu holding her US Open Trophy….

FLUSHING MEADOWS, N.Y(SMI-SPORTS,07.24.19) – The USTA today announced that US Open Fan Week, a week-long tennis and entertainment festival, will kick-off the 2019 US Open and run from Monday, August 19 through Sunday, August 25, on the grounds of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Anchored by the US Open Qualifying Tournament, the week’s activities also include free evening concerts, open practices featuring the world’s top players, a new…..The USTA today announced that US Open F

LONDON,UK(07.09-07.14.19)-World-ranked#1 and 18-times Grand-Slam single tennis' Champion, Novak Djokovic, outlasted renowned 20-times Grand-Slam champion, Swiss' Roger Federer in five sets of the Championship final match (7-6,1-6,7-6,4-6,13-12), and claiming his fifth Wimbledon Crown at the 133rd edition (2019) Wimbledon Championship in London, United Kingdom. A colossal final match— where two titans from the tennis world,"Djocovic Vs Federer ", collided in seach of another supremacy crown, du

LONDON,UK(07.09-07.14.19)-Simona Halep (WTA#7), made history today after upsetting World-ranked WTA#11 & 23-Grand-Slam Champion, Serena Williams, in two straight sets (6-2,6-2), and winning her first ever Wimbledon Title and second Grand-Slam (2018 French Open), overall in her career at the 2019 Wimbledon Championship in London, United Kingdom. This has be one of the biggest upset in tennis so far this year, where no one expected or gave a slightly chance