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Petrova Overpowers Venus Williams
Sports and Health – PARIS — There was a sense that this might be Venus Williams’s time, finally, at Roland Garros. Her see-through lace dress became the sartorial sensation of the French Open. Her rise back to No. 2 in the world this spring, and her strong play in the opening rounds, turned Williams into [...]
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Nun Works Out Players’ Academic Side
By some measures, the success of the Xavier men’s basketball team rests not with a sharpshooting guard or a ball-hawking forward. Rather, it rests largely with a 5-foot-4, white-haired 77-year-old nun not afraid to rap on dormitory doors or to call players before dawn to ask about missed classes or late assignments.
Xavier, one of the [...] -
Was it Down Under, or Upside Down?
A actual abreast tennis fan who frequents my appointment chock-full by on Monday to babble about the Australian Open. We talked about the altered aspects of the aboriginal and additional weeks, and he was absolutely afflicted with the assuming of Li Na and Jie Zheng. I am, too. The Chinese women both fabricated it to [...]
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Tennis’ Decade of Recovery
While I acquisition it ultimately advantageous and educational — not to acknowledgment fun — to appraise a assertive aeon in tennis, the ultimate claiming arrives aback I attack to “grade” that aeon in allegory to the added agnate ones in my analysis. Hence, attractive aback at the aboriginal 10 years of the new millennium and [...]