The spectacular renaissance of Angelique Kerber and other top stories.

• The spectacular renaissance of Angelique Kerber

  

  4:23 AM ETGreg GarberSenior Writer CloseGreg Garber joined ESPN in 1991 and provides reports for NFL Countdown and SportsCenter. He is also a regular contributor to Outside the Lines and a senior writer for ESPN.com.NEW YORK -- Going forward, it's clear Angelique Kerber is the one to beat in women's tennis.After failing to reach the second week of a single major last year, the German won her second of the season Saturday at the US Open. She defeated No. 10 seed Karolina Pliskova in a smashing fi..

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• Race Driver Dies in Multi-Car Crash at Ohio Speedway

  

  A driver died in a wreck at an Ohio race track Saturday, an official with Eldora Speedway in Rossburg said. Dirt Late Model racer Shane Unger, 35, was involved in a muti-car crash on a turn in the half-mile oval, and was pronounced dead after being rushed to Mercer County Community Hospital, the raceway said in a statement. FILE - A general view of the track during the Gillette Young Guns Prelude to the Dream at Eldora Speedway on September 9, 2009 in Rossburg, Ohio. Chris Graythen /..

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• Assessing chances for Ryder Cup picks

  

  CARMEL, Ind. -- The idea was sound and made plenty of sense: wait a few weeks to make the captain's picks to see if players who did not qualify for the U.S. Ryder Cup team might get on a roll, turn some heads.With three of Davis Love III's four at-large picks looming on Monday morning, it is difficult to imagine the U.S. captain having much clarity at this point.Unless Love has made up his mind on one or more of the picks, regardless of how they played this week at the BMW Championship, those wh..

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• UCLA football passes its way past UNLV

  

  PASADENA >> Old offenses die hard for the UCLA football team. After spending the offseason preaching physicality in a power-running offense, the Bruins resurrected shades of their old spread offense to tally their first win of the season, a 42-21 victory over UNLV on Saturday at the Rose Bowl. Through three quarters, UCLA threw the ball 57.1 percent of the time against UNLV. By the end of the game, 15 different receivers had at least one reception. Although the new offense was expected to put ..

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• Reflective stars: Allen Iverson and HOF inductees shine light on others

  

  SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- We celebrate Allen Iverson for his authenticity and then, as his sport bestowed its highest honor on him Friday night, he deceived us. We thought he held it together during his Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement speech. He ...

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• UFC 203: Miocic vs Overeem - Winners and Losers

  

  Cleveland wanted the UFC, and they got more than they bargained for. MMA is a sport that usually embraces chaos and oddities, and sometimes it's the strange things that keep us coming back for more. Even so, as is the case with many other things in life, there's a limit to how much can be tolerated. Perhaps there isn't a more polite way to put this, but the entire event was just very, very strange for all the wrong reasons. We had cancellations due to illness and elevator hijinks, a fighter wei..

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