Jessica Pegula and Iga Swiatek were mid-point in a semifinal tiebreaker when dance-party staple "Cotton Eye Joe" rang through the stadium. The crowd might have liked it, but the players were thrown.

The match was as close as it gets at the semifinals of Montreal's National Bank Open ... Jessica Pegula and Iga Swiatek were trading points, with Pegula ahead 4-3 in the tiebreaker. As the ball was in ...

Most people know “Cotton Eye Joe” as the frantic 1994 Rednex hit or a bizarre internet meme, but its history stretches much further back. The video traces the song through American folk tradition, ...

Sports fans can definitely chalk a Saturday occurrence at the National Bank Open up under the category of “something you don’t see everyday”—or should we say hear everyday. During play of the ...

Most of us remember line dancing to the bizarrely entertaining song "Cotton Eye Joe" at every school dance or wedding we attended throughout the '90s, but no one ever gave much thought to the artists ...

Oliver Anthony has canceled his show at Cotton Eyed Joe in Knoxville, Tennessee, due to high ticket prices. "Cotton Eyed Joe has been cancelled (sic). Ultimately, it’s my fault for not being more ...

Where did you come from, where did you go, where did you come from at the Canadian Open, Cotton Eye Joe? It was an unusual interruption in one of the biggest matches of the Canadian Open, as No. 1 ...

CINCINNATI, Ohio—If it hadn’t been for Cotton Eye Joe…Jessica Pegula probably would have gotten more questions about her second career WTA 1000 win at the Omnium Banque Nationale. “I had more ...

CINCINNATI, Ohio -- Jessica Pegula can laugh about it now. Fresh off her title run at the Omnium Banque Nationale, the World No.3 returned stateside for this week's Western & Southern Open and has ...

There’s not much that can distract the attention of world-class athletes competing at their peak. But it turns out the “Cotton Eye Joe” might just have the ability to throw anyone off their game. In ...