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Serena Williams To Play At Madison Square Garden In March
BEAUTY UNLIMITED
KIARA
The Spotlight feature for this week is the lovely Kiara. It’s been a long time since a feature with natural beauty has been spotlighted, and what better choice than this young woman. Kiara said she is a very hard worker and she puts 100% effort into every photo shoot. Kiara is very comfortable in front of the camera, and has a burning desire to be successful. She loves to have fun, and she says she’s very easy to work with. Congratulations to Kiara for appearing as this week’s Spotlight feature.
Serena Williams is on a long layoff from competitive tennis, but on March 5 she is expected to play in a new short-form tournament in New York.
Williams, who gave birth to a daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., on Sept. 1, could return to the tennis tour somewhere else before that, but she has at least committed to appear in a one-day tiebreaker event at Madison Square Garden.
“She will 100 percent be there,” said Felicity Barnard, the chief executive of Tie Break Tens, who said both Serena and her older sister Venus Williams con- firmed several months ago that they would attend the
Heavyweight Champ Gets
2 Years' Probation For Drug Charge
DEONTAY WILDER
A municipal court judge has sentenced WBC heavy- weight champion Deontay Wilder to 60 hours of com- munity service for misde- meanor marijuana possession.
Judge Ricky McKinney found Wilder, 32, guilty Thursday and ordered him to perform the community serv- ice at a local YMCA. Wilder received a 30-day suspended sentence and two years of probation.
Wilder was arrested in Tuscaloosa in June after po- lice found marijuana in his Cadillac Escalade. He was ini- tially stopped for a window tint violation.
Officers searched the car after smelling marijuana and found a small amount in the vehicle's console.
Attorney Paul Patterson has said the marijuana didn't belong to Wilder. Patter- son says the boxer had just returned from a trip and oth- ers had access to the Escalade.
Wilder, an Olympic bronze medalist in 2008, is 39-0 with 38 knockouts as a professional.
SERENA WILLIAMS
event.
Serena Williams has
not played competitively since she won her 23rd Grand Slam singles title, at the Australian Open on Jan. 29, 2017. She lost an exhibition match against Jelena Ostapenko in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 30, but several days later Williams
withdrew from the Australian Open, saying, “I’m not where I personally want to be.”
Her absence from the tour may have been prolonged by the harrowing medical com- plications she endured from her labor, which were out- lined in an interview in the February issue of Vogue.
The Tie Break Tens, which borrows from the faster- paced concepts being used in sports like Twenty20 cricket and Rugby Sevens, pits eight players in a knockout format. The contestants play a 10- point tiebreaker, and the win- ner advances to the next round.
The event takes roughly three hours, and the cham- pion gets all $250,000.
Kyrie Irving Likes Instagram Video Of LeBron James Tirade
Heat Guard Dion Waiters
Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving evidently en- joyed watching former team- mate LeBron James yell on the sideline during the Cleve- land Cavaliers' game against the Toronto Raptors on Thursday.
In the first half of a contest that quickly became a blowout at Air Canada Centre, James yelled at what appeared to be an assistant coach in the hud- dle during a timeout. The Ballgod Instagram account shared a video of James' tirade, and Irving liked the post soon after.
We're assuming Irving knows what it's like to be on the other end of a King James lecture. Meanwhile, Uncle Drew and the Celtics sit comfortably atop the East- ern Conference standings heading into the second week- end of 2018.
Expected To Undergo
Season-Ending Ankle Surgery
Miami Heat guard Dion Waiters is expected to un- dergo season-ending surgery on his left ankle.
Waiters has received nu- merous opinions from foot specialists in Los Angeles and is finalizing his decision, league sources said.
He has missed the past eight games because of the injury. For Waiters, under- going surgery is an attempt to ensure the ankle fully heals instead of dealing with the in- jury off and on.
Waiters first suffered the ankle issue late last season and it has lingered. He pub- licly stated he decided to by- pass surgery over the summer to focus on the 2017- 18 season. Waiters signed a four-year, $52 million deal to return to the Heat in free agency in July.
Waiters emerged as the Heat’s starting shooting
DION WAITERS
guard last season and has av- eraged 14.3 points, 3.8 assists and 2.6 rebounds in 30 starts this season.
Waiters was the No. 4 overall selection in the 2012 NBA draft and found a home in Miami when he left the Oklahoma City Thunder to sign with the Heat as a free agent in 2016.
The Heat have won six consecutive games to im- prove to 24-17 and currently hold the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference.
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