Soccer, tennis, Olympic trials; It s been a helluva sports week. Let s all agree that Matteo Berrettini, the 25-year-old, 6 5 Hammer of Wimbledon is adorable and hot and fortunately will be around for a long time.
Let s also agree that soccer is a bazillion percent more exciting than football and the players are sexy AF.
Let s also agree that the war on Black women athletes needs to end and that there is something seriously wrong with the World Athletics rule that has women athletes tested not just for doping, but for femaleness.
Matteo Berrettini; Christine Mboma
Several of the world s fastest women have been banned from their signature track events for having naturally occurring high testosterone levels. That every one of them is Black is both not surprising and utterly shocking.
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Gossip Girl, which aired from 2007 to 2012 and followed the lives of privileged teenage Upper East Side New Yorkers as they moved from public school to university and beyond, is getting a reboot (which starts in July) and HBO has released its first look of the cast in action.
And while there’s a chance you neither care about HBO’s revamped show nor watched the original, there’s no denying that a glimpse of that collegiate prep that become synonymous with Blake Lively’s Serena van der Woodsen, Penn Badgley’s Dan Humphrey, Chace Crawford’s Nate Archibald, Ed Westwick’s Chuck Bass and Leighton Meester’s Blair Waldorf warmed your cockles a little, right?