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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Andre Agassi was a crystal meth user in 1997. In a tweet he since deleted, a Sport Illustrated employee dropped a bomb Tuesday morning. @richarddeitsch: Book excerpt from Andre Agassi in the forthcoming SI: He admits to taking crystal meth during his career. The book, "Open: An Autobiography" will be excerpted in People and Sports Illustrated this week. It's out November 9. Since then, a...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
LA Times man Tim Rutten is the Tor Johnson of culture critics: a slow, lumbering space zombie who takes forever to get to whatever inelegant point he's making (typically a coupla-three weeks after it's relevant). And talk about subtlety! Here he is on the RDIB (recent descent into boorishness): Our recent descent into boorishness didn't begin on the political platform but on the stage—not with...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Lewis Black appeared on the "Daily Show" last night to tackle the topic of "Anger in America." It seems every reporter, columnist, and blogger in America has strung together Joe Wilson, Serena Williams, and Kanye West and decided we as a culture are getting angrier and more boorish. In fact, the town hall outbursts are getting angrier, but everything else is exactly the same. John...
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Under the News (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
America is all a'Twitter (literally) over recent outbursts by singer Kanye West, tennis player Serena Williams and U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson. Throw in the righteous indignation over town-hall protesters by suddenly decorum-obsessed followers of Cindy Sheehan and Al Sharpton and ... well, you've got a massive whine-and-cheese party. C'mon folks. Was the normally prosaic path of your life significantly (or...
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The Trump Blog (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
by Donald J. Trump I hated to see Serena Williams apologize so much for her actions in her recent loss to Kim Clijsters. I have always liked Serena and respected her tenacity. She got angry at a line judge, as have many other great players like John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors, because the line judge made a mistake--there was no foot fault! The line judge made a very evident mistake, and she is the...
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From On High (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
A trivia question: Did the "bad boy of tennis" Jimmy Connors (a white boy) ever habe a match handed to an opponent by a judge? Not one. Did "Bad Boy II" John McEnroe (just as white)? No. So how do we explain this? Penalty to Williams, Match to Clijsters There can be only one explanation. Serena Williams was denied entry into the finals at the U.S. Open because she threatened a line...
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Watch Live Sports (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
ATP US Open 2009 - Men's Singles (4th Round) Roger Federer vs Tommy Robredo Date: September 7th Time: 18:30 (GMT) Five-time defending US Open champion Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, who will be returning to Grand Slam competition after withdrawing from Wimbledon, lead the men’s singles field for the 2009 US Open Tennis Championships. The player field also features former US Open champions Andy...
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J's Theater (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
It's hardly news that I'm a sports fan, but though I've posted on pro baseball, football, rugby, and other sports, I seldom mention professional tennis on here or elsewhere. From childhood through perhaps my mid 30s, I not only followed professional tennis avidly, but took lessons, played the game in my free time, and watched it whenever I could. This timespan, coincidentally, mirrored tennis's rise...
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ATP Mens Tennis (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
US Open Interview: Fabrice Santoro September 2nd 2009 J. FERRERO/F. Santoro 6 4, 6 3, 6 3 Q. Thank you for all the good times. Many, many years from now, if your grandkids, if they came up to you and said, Hey, summarize the incredible career you had as an athlete, what would be the one word, the one phrase in English that you would use? FABRICE SANTORO: Hmm. It's your job to find it, no? Q. No. FABRICE...
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Roger Federer and Serena Williams. The U.S. Open begins early tomorrow (breakfast is at 6 a.m.!). We’re certain to see our fair share of epic late-night marathons and the raucous crowds (for tennis) that Flushing is renowned for. But Opens are defined by their personalities, whether it’s an aging Pete Sampras winning his fifth in 2002, Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert’s battles...
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Tennis World (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
Federer win breaks Sampras record Roger Federer became the greatest player in Grand Slam history as he beat Andy Roddick in five dramatic sets for a sixth Wimbledon and 15th major title. The Swiss won 5-7 7-6 (8-6) 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 16-14 to surpass Pete Sampras's 14 Grand Slam wins and regain the title he lost to Rafael Nadal last year. And Sampras was back at Wimbledon for the first time since 2002 to...
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Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
Ciaran Cronin Had you lost your wits for a moment, you could have been killed in the stampede. No more than 10 minutes after Andy Murray had hit his last ball of Wimbledon 2009, into the net wouldn't you know, he was in the interview room, waiting to be grilled by the British media. Trouble was, nobody was expecting him to be in that quick so when the call went out, the press pack rushed as though...
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The Steam Engine (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
As I watched the Wimbledon semi-final between Andy Roddick and Scotland’s Andy Murray, a wayward Roddick serve drifted across causing a line judge to take evasive action and dodge the ball fizzing towards him. He seemed fairly nonchalant about the whole incident, but the crowd’s badly stifled mirth at what they seemed to perceive as a “humorous incident.” I’ve seen this...
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Paul Owen (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Image via Wikipedia I don't watch tennis as much as I used to. I always glance at Wimbledon , it is difficult to avoid at this time of year, but I find myself distinctly unmoved by Murray Mania, just as I was never caught up in the annual frenzy of hope for Henman - inevitably followed by disappointment. For me the golden era of tennis, at least during my lifetime, was the 70s and 80s. Perhaps this...
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