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Querrey, Back in Round of 16, Leads a Dwindling American Contingent
The last time Sam Querrey made the Round of 16 at the United States Open, back in 2008, he was a gangly unseeded 20-year-old who delighted first and foremost in the fact his third-round match got some national television exposure on CBS.
“That’s big,” he said afterward, grinning widely.
Querrey has gotten plenty of airtime since then, [...]
For Murray, Another U.S. Open, Another Early Exit
The dire forecasts — weather and otherwise — that were supposed to rattle the United States Open field seemed to pass Sunday with little of the expected doom and gloom. The wind, which had turned Saturday into a mess, calmed by Sunday afternoon, and all seemed well until Andy Murray, the tournament’s version of [...]
Roethlisberger’s Suspension Reduced to 4 Games
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger will serve a four-game suspension for behavior that led to sexual assault allegations after a March encounter with a college student at a Georgia nightclub last spring.
The suspension was reduced Friday from its original six games in a meeting between Roethlisberger and Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the N.F.L. Goodell [...]
A Moment Slips Away
They spilled over the top, the sides and out of their seats in the cozy Grandstand Stadium, more than 6,100 fans fueled with hope for the 18-year-old American qualifier Ryan Harrison, who turned his second-round match into an electric spectacle.
This was the moment — and the type of player — New York fans had been [...]
Big Reopening in a Troubled Economy
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The original 1920s financing plan for the University of Michigan’s now-iconic football stadium relied on a bond issue that allowed each bondholder to purchase two season tickets. A university history noted that it was assumed “a new stadium would quickly pay for itself.”
That assumption was derailed by the onset of the [...]