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Federer Better Not Fumble French Open

Adam Markowitz - May 31, 2009

Lars Burgsmuller, Xavier Malisse, Richard Gasquet, Sebastien Grosjean, David Ferrer, Roger Federer, Mariano Puerta, Robin Soderling, Kevin Kim, Paul-Henri Mathieu, Lleyton Hewitt, Novak Djokovic, Ivan Ljubicic, Roger Federer, Juan Martin del Potro, Flavio Cipolla, Albert Montanes, Lleyton Hewitt, Carlos Moya, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Thomaz Bellucci, Nicolas Devilder, Jarkko Nieminen, Fernando Verdasco, Nicolas Almagro, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Marcos Daniel, Teimuraz Gabashvili, and finally, Lleyton Hewitt...That's a pretty impressive list of 31 names in men's tennis. Those are th ...

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Lucky Charms or Bad Hapits

Matthew Martz - May 25, 2009

A shot of rum, a boa constrictor and an African voodoo doll named Jobu may be a bit of an exaggeration, but to the Indians Pedro Cerrano it was a religion. “That was just a movie,” you say ...
Feeling the Heat: Here Come the Rays

Adam Markowitz - May 24, 2009

Has the entire baseball world forgotten about the Tampa Bay Rays? Last season, the darlings of Major League Baseball shocked the world and came up just one step short of becoming World Champions. This ...
Hockey Beard Part 2

Wylie VanWenger - May 22, 2009

The Hockey Beard is a phenomenon I’d only just heard about. It came up when some friends and I were ganging up on my roommate to try and convince him to shave his wretched beard that his g ...
Hockey Beard Part One

Wylie VanWenger - May 21, 2009

My roommate is hell bent on growing a four-foot long ZZ Top style beard for no good reason at all except that he can. He has made several beard attempts in recent years, but they all have ended ...
Don't Tug On Superman's Cape

Adam Markowitz - May 19, 2009

The NBA learned a huge lesson from a huge man last week. Dwight Howard has an angry side, and no one wants to see it. Following a huge collapse at TD Banknorth Garden in Boston in Game 5 of the Easter ...
Denver Nuggets are no Fools Gold

Matthew Martz - May 19, 2009

This year’s Western Conference final is sure to be a Wild West showdown. You have the ultimate match up of NBA scorers with Melo vs. Kobe, along with a good low-post match-up in Kenyon Martin an ...
Moving Beyond the MLB Steroid Stories

Matthew Martz - May 13, 2009

Okay, so I said I would not write another piece on baseball until I did an article about some of the amazing stories coming out of both the NBA and NHL playoffs over the last few weeks. But how could ...
Manny Being Manny

Adam Markowitz - May 10, 2009

So as I was flipping through the dictionary the other day, I found the damndest thing...malcontent: one who is chronically discontented or dissatisfied; synonyms: grumbler, complainer, faultfinder; se ...
Favre's Final Farewell

Matthew Martz - May 7, 2009

As much as I am fan, I'm as sick of Favre’s never-ending retirement as the next non-Wrangler-jeans-wearing guy. He doesn’t realize the number of people asking for one more song keeps dwind ...

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Garciaparra retires as member of Red Sox (AP)

Six years after he was traded away for the final pieces of Boston's World Series puzzle, Nomar Garciaparra finally got a friendly farewell from the Red Sox. The rookie of the year, batting champion and All-Star whose trade began a bitter back-and-forth in Boston and, for Garciaparra, an inglorious slide into irrelevance, signed a ceremonial one-day contract with the Red Sox on Wednesday for...
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Crosby's Olympic stick, glove found (AP)

The stick and glove Sidney Crosby used to give Canada its Olympic gold medal are back where they belong. Crosby's missing gear was on its way to the Pittsburgh Penguins star on Wednesday. Hockey Canada says the gear was misplaced rather than stolen, with both items ending up in the wrong place in the process of packing and shipping equipment after the Olympic final.
Hunter: Black Latino players 'impostors' (AP)
Los Angeles Angels center fielder Torii Hunter insists he meant no harm toward Latino players when he referred to them as "impostors" while discussing the number of African-Americans in the major leagues. Hunter's original comments were made two weeks ago in one of a series of USA Today roundtables about baseball and published in Wednesday's editions.