Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle.
A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013.
He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.
NEW YORK — It has been a dozen years since Serena and Venus Williams first arrived at the U.S. Open as teenagers.
Two young black women from Compton, Calif., their hair woven into white beads that sometimes spilled onto the court, they were unlike anything the staid tennis world had ever seen.
And it has been 10 years since Serena beat the Swiss Miss Martina Hingis to win the first of the sisters’ five titles in Flushing Meadows.
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