Inspired by her championship victory at the 2005 Australian Open, this is the athlete's second Barbie collaboration this year.
Serena Williams and Barbie have released a new doll inspired by one of her greatest career achievements.
Mattel announced a fresh Barbie Signature doll in her likeness. With this launch, the Compton native officially joins Team Barbie, described by the company as a group of powerful athletes and role models who show girls how confidence and ambition can help them pursue their dreams.
"As we celebrate International Day of the Girl, Barbie is proud to honor Serena Williams. Barbie has always inspired girls to believe they can be anything, from the sports stadium to the fashion runway to the boardroom," shared Nathan Baynard, Vice President and Head of Barbie, Mattel in a statement. "Serena Williams embodies that message through her extraordinary achievements as an athlete, entrepreneur, and advocate for equality. By honoring her with a Barbie Signature doll, we're celebrating a barrier-breaking icon whose legacy empowers fans everywhere to dream big and embrace their own potential."
Dressed in a green and white cutout top with mesh detailing, statement earrings, and a matching white headband and skirt, the doll also comes with a tennis racket and ball. The outfit is inspired by Williams' iconic championship victory at the 2005 Australian Open over Lindsay Davenport.

#australian #open

Down 23-3 in the fourth quarter. Twenty-one unanswered points - against the No. 1 team in the country. A Heisman Trophy campaign that roared back to life. The return of Texas football's running game, redemption for a quarterback and a program, and a huge win over the Buckeyes that has Texas in place to possibly become the new No. 1 team in the country.
Saturday night's 24-23 thriller had it all.
Texas Longhorns' tight end Spencer Shannon (83) dives after Texas Longhorns' defensive back Kade Phillips (8) after Phillips recovered a fumble as the Texas Longhorns and Ohio State Buckeyes face off at Royal-Memorial Stadium in Austin on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026. (Mikala Compton/Austin American-Statesman)
As bad as Texas' start was, as bad as things looked at halftime and the third quarter, as unlucky and plodding as the Longhorns looked, all that turned around in the fourth quarter. After surviving what was probably the worst first quarter of the Steve Sarkisian era, No. 4 Texas produced perhaps the biggest win ever at Royal-Memorial Stadium.
Here are some observations we saw from Saturday's win:

#royal #memorial

Holly Marie Combs built a career spanning more than 30 years in Hollywood, anchoring hit series like Charmed and Pretty Little Liars. But in recent years, the actress has largely stepped out of the spotlight. Now she's opening up about what pushed her to step back.
Aside from appearing on friend and former Charmed costar the late Shannen Doherty's podcast and popping up as herself in Pretty Little Wine Moms Re-Watch, Combs, 52, hasn't taken an acting job since a guest spot on Grey's Anatomy back in 2019.
On Tuesday, August 25, Scout Taylor-Compton, who played Thistle on Charmed, joined Combs and her cohost, Brian Krause for an episode of their podcast, House of Halliwell. Like Combs, she grew up in the industry. During the conversation, Combs traced her exit from acting back to the pandemic.
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"It was three teenagers and a pre-teen in the house, and it was just mayhem and chaos," she said, describing the chaos of raising kids through lockdown.

#podcast

Aug. 17—Darius Wabbington announced a top six of Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville, North Carolina, and Texas in late June. A month-and-a-half later, Illinois is squarely in the mix for the Class of 2027 five-star center.
The Illini are set to host Wabbington for an official visit the third weekend of October, per 247Sports' Brandon Jenkins. The 6-foot-11, 245-pound center, who is a consensus five-star recruit and ranked as high as the No. 15 overall prospect in his class, also has official visits scheduled with Arizona, Indiana, Louisville, North Carolina, Texas and Washington.
Wabbington is coming off an impressive junior year at Sunnyslope (Ariz.) where he averaged 17.2 points, 9.4 rebounds and 2.6 **** ists in his third varsity season for the Vikings. He played for Compton Magic on the adidas 3SSB circuit where he was the third-leading rebounder and put up 16.2 points and 6.9 rebounds per game.
Wabbington also has international experience, having played for the U.S. (alongside Illinois freshman Quentin Coleman) at the FIBA U18 AmeriCup earlier this summer. Wabbington and Team USA took silver after losing to Canada in the gold-medal game, and he averaged 9.2 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.2 **** ists in five games in Mexico.

#points #louisville #north #carolina

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The trial of a man accused of orchestrating the killing of Tupac Shakur started this week with jury selection, almost 30 years after the rap legend was gunned down near the Las Vegas Strip.
Attorneys began vetting potential jurors Monday for the case, which centers on one of the hip-hop world's defining moments and enduring mysteries. Seven potential jurors were asked to return Thursday afternoon as attorneys continue the selection process Tuesday and Wednesday. A total of 16 jurors will be selected for the monthlong trial.
Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 63, has pleaded not guilty to murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or ******* ist a criminal gang in the rapper's death. At the time, Davis was a leader of the South Side Compton Crips in California.
Family members of Shakur were among those who gathered at a Las Vegas courthouse for the beginning of jury selection, which could continue through much of this week.
"Whoever had anything to do with it, whoever set it up, whoever had any hand in it should be locked up in prison," said Shakur's cousin, Kendrick Lesane.

#vegas #shakur

The NFL has all 32 teams in training camp, while 30 of them are approaching their first preseason games. Thursday night featured a thrilling Hall of Fame Game, and now the first official week of the preseason is approaching. Some teams, like the Las Vegas Raiders, have players who are clearly ready to get on the field.
The Raiders became the center of a rather interesting training camp scuffle. While these incidents aren't uncommon, it is unusual to see Kirk Cousins get his temper fired up, especially with a teammate like Maxx Crosby.
MORE: Kirk Cousins, Maxx Crosby get into heated exchange at Raiders practice
Now, a former NFL player has given his take on the Cousins-Crosby confrontation. Will Compton offered a rather interesting take on who he thinks would actually win an escalated fistfight.
Jun 3, 2026; Henderson, NV, USA; Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby (98) hugs quarterback Kirk Cousins (8) during organized team activities at Intermountain Health Performance Center. Mandatory Credit: Candice Ward-Imagn Images Credit: IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect (Reuters)

#maxx

Netflix is sending a Motley Crew of personalities Down Under for the first regular-season NFL game ever played in Australia.
The streamer revealed its full broadcast team for the 49ers-Rams matchup at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, with Elle Duncan hosting studio coverage alongside desk ***** ysts Michael Irvin, Nick Foles and Clay Matthews III, while Noah Eagle calls play-by-play with Luke Kuechly as his ***** yst and MJ Acosta reporting from the sideline. The game airs Thursday, Sept. 10 at 8:35 p.m. ET, kicking off Netflix's expanded five-game NFL slate.
Netflix expanded its NFL footprint from two games to five for the upcoming season, and Duncan, the face of the streamer's fledgling sports division, told Sports Media Watch that Netflix intends to run a consistent crew across that entire slate.
"We want every single one of our events to, yes, have a through-line and some consistency, and you'll get that with the desk and the talent," Duncan said.
Irvin, who already has Netflix experience, having worked the desk during last season's Christmas Day doubleheader alongside Devin McCourty and Austin Ekeler, is the closest thing this lineup has to a returning face. Foles and Matthews are both making their Netflix debuts. Foles won Super Bowl LII MVP with the Eagles during an 11-season career across six teams, but has no real broadcasting track record beyond his own The SZN podcast, which recently joined NBC Sports Philadelphia's podcast network. Matthews, a longtime Green Bay Packers linebacker and Super Bowl champion, has built what media presence he has the same way, joining Bussin' With The Boys last year as its self-described "consistent fourth chair" alongside Will Compton, Taylor Lewan and Delanie Walker, after FanDuel lured the show away from Barstool Sports.

#foles #season #game #irvin

A Wolverhampton Wanderers' fan group has launched a special shirt to mark the club's 150th anniversary season.
Four friends who are part of Old Gold Pack said they spent months bringing their concept to life to mark the anniversary in 2027 and although it had been a lot of work, it was "an absolute joy to get it done".
The majority of the profits from the sale of the shirt are to be donated to Wolverhampton hospice charity Compton Care.
Kieran Newey from the group said to see fans wearing the shirt as the new season kicks off will be "crazy".
"We've always been really big fans of football culture and we'd always talked about designing a football shirt," he said.

#group #anniversary #Football

ESPN is reportedly planning a new college football show built around Josh Pate and Bussin' With The Boys co-hosts Will Compton and Taylor Lewan, airing Friday afternoons from college campuses, according to Front Office Sports' Ryan Glasspiegel.
The reported show would mark an expansion of ties ESPN has already built with all three hosts. Pate joined the network's Get Up rotation last year, as part of a broader push from content president Burke Magnus, who has said college football is under-covered on ESPN's talk programming relative to how many people actually watch the games. Compton and Lewan started appearing on ESPN's daytime lineup around the same time, following their decision to leave Barstool Sports for a presenting sponsorship with FanDuel.
Of course, the show, which sometimes originates from the same city as the next morning's College GameDay broadcast, also indicates ESPN is looking to further lean into a strategy where its top personalities are digital natives. Naturally, the comparisons will be made to Pat McAfee's own rise at the Worldwide Leader, given the trio's SEC Championship altcast debut on ESPN2 last December — an altcast built off the Field Pass template McAfee had already proven out several times over — and now a reported Friday show on top of it. If it feels like a coincidence, it isn't. It's more a barometer for what's possible when a network invests in an audience someone's already built, according to Pate.
"I think when you combine that… year-round college football being viable and then just sports media as a concept being presented in practice the way Pat has done it, I think that there is no ceiling on what you're allowed to do, what you're capable of doing," Pate told Front Office Sports in July.
What Pate, Lewan, and Compton are actually capable of doing won't be clear until games are being played this fall, when ESPN will have to find out whether a Friday show built around three podcast hosts can hold up against the machine it already runs on Saturdays, one anchored by College GameDay and, per Glasspiegel's reporting, the same site the new show would sometimes share. On a recent episode of Bussin' With The Boys, though, Pate and Lewan laid out a vision for the alleged concept and the specific gap in ESPN's Friday programming they think it can fill.

#sports #compton

The attorney for Duane "Keefe D" Davis, the man charged with the first-degree murder of Tupac Shakur, is speaking out ahead of the start of his trial.
In an interview with The U.S. Sun published Tuesday, July 28, Mike Sanft said there "should never have been charges" against Davis in the first place, adding that his client's past comments about his alleged involvement in Shakur's murder were not necessarily truthful.
"It's exercising your First Amendment right to free speech," Sanft said. "Is it in good taste? Probably not. But once again, it's exercising in his right to free speech."
Davis previously recalled in his 2019 memoir Compton Street Legend the night Shakur was shot.
According to Sanft, authorities "should have rolled their eyes at Keefe and been like, 'Dude, seriously, why'd you even write that book? That's dumb.' Ultimately, when you really look into the book itself and the details of it it's not necessarily criminal."

#first #exercising

To most sports fans, Will Compton isn’t a household name. He arrived in the NFL as an undrafted free agent and somehow managed to carve out a nice career as a linebacker spanning nine seasons from 2013 to 2021.
Compton only played for three teams: Washington, Tennessee ****** ans, and the Raiders (in both Oakland and Las Vegas). Yet, he managed to start 40 of his 92 appearances. He was also on the New Orleans Saints’ squad but released without playing.
If anything, he’s done more to make a name for himself since retiring from the league (though his playing career no doubt set him up nicely post-retirement). Now, Compton can commonly be heard on the “Bussin’ With The Boys” podcast, which he co-created with Taylor Lewan. Compton has become known for being a bit of a goofball, or in other words, he loves to make light of comical situations.
One of Compton’s recent bits included acting like he was bothered by not being one of the many who received an invite to Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s wedding. TMZ ran with Compton’s previous comments, in which he said he jokingly said he was “flabbergasted.”
Of course, TMZ wasn’t alone. Others ran to the printing press too.

The Los Angeles Lakers have a big hole at the starting wing or forward position, and they need plenty of help there if they are to become championship contenders, especially with LeBron James gone.
They have reportedly been focusing on Jonathan ******* inga, but on Monday, a new wing hit the market.
DeMar DeRozan, a 17-year NBA veteran who is still playing at a high level at age 36, is being waived by the Sacramento Kings, per Shams Charania of ESPN. He averaged 18.4 points and 4.1 ******* ists a game while shooting 49.7% from the field this past season for a Kings team that went 22-60.
Instantly, some Lakers fans wondered if he could be an option for the Purple and Gold. But according to Dave McMenamin of ESPN, that is unlikely to happen.
Back in 2021, the Lakers reportedly had genuine interest in DeRozan, who is originally from Compton and played his college basketball at the University of Southern California. But they instead made their infamous trade for Russell Westbrook that summer.

Naturally, there are numbers.
More Test runs than Graham Thorpe and Denis Compton, more caps than David Gower and Geoffrey Boycott.
More wickets than Darren Gough and Steve Harmison, at a better strike-rate than James Anderson and Ian Botham.
More Tests as captain than Mike Brearley and Raymond Illingworth. More Test sixes than any other man on the planet.
But Ben Stokes is a cricketer of more than mere numbers, even if his final Test tallies of 7,273 runs and 252 wickets leave him in the same statistical bracket as Sir Garfield Sobers and Jacques Kallis, bona fide legends.

Kane Brown has suffered a head injury while playing golf.
The country star had to miss the Tight End University concert, presented by Sports Illustrated and Reese's, in Nashville on Tuesday.
At the event, former NFL players Taylor Lewan and Will Compton of Bussin' with the Boys revealed the news.
"Kane Brown got hit with a golf ball today on the golf course; 23 stitches," Compton shared. "He says concussion. The football guys probably don't buy it."
Brown shared a series of Instagram Stories posts detailing his injuries.
"Shot in the head by a golf ball," he wrote on the first post, showing off a ******* ear.

A football fan is running one mile for every goal scored each day during the World Cup to raise money for two charities.
Tom Wilmott said he was fundraising for Brain Tumour Support and Compton Care hospice in Wolverhampton as although the tournament was an exciting time, many people were not able to enjoy it due to illness or personal challenges.
He has run 121 miles in 11 days so far - his longest being 19 miles in one day - and raised £1,635 towards a £2,000 target.
As the last round of the group stages approach and four games a day ramp up to six, he said he would "just have to do a lot of running" despite the heatwave this week.
Wilmott, from Manchester, said he had been running around his job and been getting up at about 05:00 to fit miles in before work and finishing with a run later in the evening.

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. – Shinnecock Hills is widely considered one of golf’s cathedrals.
For Matt Robles, it’s his dojang.
When Robles wasn’t cutting his teeth at the local muni in Downey, California, a blue-collar city in south Los Angeles, just miles from Compton, he was sharpening his mind at the taekwondo training hall. One of the five tenants of the Korean martial art is to respect one’s instructor; if not, physical punishment is warranted, usually in the form of duck walks or frog jumps.
This week, Robles’ grandmaster is William Flynn, whose beautiful-yet-punishing design will host this week’s 126th U.S. Open. Robles, a 20-year-old rising junior at Santa Clara, is one of 62 open qualifiers, 34 first-timers and a record-tying 20 amateurs in the 156-man field, each competitor hoping to not just solve this intricate test but survive the exposed, undulating layout that will surely be pummeled by up-to-40-mph gusts over the next few days.
Robles will hit the first shot of major career at 2:42 p.m. ET Thursday, part of the last threesome off the 10th tee that won’t finish until at least dusk.

IHSTeCA Postseason Awards
1st Team: Priyanka & Pallavi Tallamraju
HM: Berlyn Compton
All-District: Priyanka, Pallavi, Berlyn
Academic All-State: Anemarie Fuller, Claire Han, Risha Panigrahi
Team: Girls Academic All-State #GoMustangs

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