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A good draw
If England supporters are delighted with their team’s group at next year’s World Cup, then followers of the United States can be nearly as happy. England might see the US, Algeria and Slovenia as ideal group opponents, but Bob Bradley has every reason to smile.Slovenia and Algeria were perhaps the best possible options from pots three and four and while England could have got...
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December 08, 2009
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WTA tour season review 2009
Player of the yearThere is only one real candidate: Serena Williams. Her ill-judged verbal outburst at the US Open takes little shine off what has been a stellar year for the younger Williams sister. She claimed her 10th and 11th Grand Slam titles of her career at Melbourne and Wimbledon, and significantly, ended the season as world number one Women's Tennis player. She will...
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December 01, 2009
America knows the Brit is coming
David Haye is ready to conquer America. The new WBA heavyweight champion has all the attributes to become box office stateside in a weight division that has lacked star quality and charisma in recent years.The blue-ribbon weight class has also been lacking class, with the Klitschko brothers a league apart from the other big men. Nikolai Valuev has struggled to prove he has much beyond...
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November 10, 2009
Olympic golf will help US medal haul
The news that golf is to be included in the 2016 Olympic schedule is a good development for American sport. It is an exaggeration to say the US needs all the help it can get, but being beaten into second place in the medal table at Beijing, for the first time in 16 years, came as a shock.China’s rapid sporting improvement is sure to be maintained, although the benefit of home advantage...
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October 12, 2009
Mayweather back to his best
Floyd Mayweather's unanimous points defeat of Juan Manuel Marquez in Las Vegas has confirmed that the Pretty Boy is back and back to his best. A 21-month absence is not the ideal preparation for a tough fight against a skilled opponent, but Mayweather showed he had lost none of his speed or defensive skills. More impressively, he punched with power, flooring his opponent in the...
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September 21, 2009
Serena motivated for next season
Serena Williams’ on-court outburst in her US Open semi final defeat by Kim Clijsters might be bad news for her rivals. The biggest threat to the 11-time Grand Slam winner’s status as the world’s best player is her own motivation. That doesn’t seem to be a problem at the moment.There was always the suspicion that both Serena and her sister might fall out of love with the sport...
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September 15, 2009
Fairytales can happen
Stewart Cink’s dramatic British Open win at Turnberry can be taken as evidence that fairytales rarely happen in sport. Tom Watson was one putt away from becoming the oldest ever winner of a major tournament, which would perhaps have been the biggest upset in golf history. The golfing gods had other ideas. Watson’s near-miss came just a year after Greg Norman nearly tore up the...
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July 21, 2009
The most dramatic chapter in the chronicles of Roddick
The 2009 men’s Wimbledon final needed something special in order to come close to the drama of last year’s showdown between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Andy Roddick helped to ensure the climax to this year’s event was just as memorable.It might have lacked the quality of Nadal’s battle with Federer, but the match was still a rollercoaster ride that broke numerous records...
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July 07, 2009
The James Blake Wimbledon mystery
James Blake’s Wimbledon campaign has again ended in the first week of the championships. The American number two has never progressed past the third round at the grass Grand Slam in seven appearances, a remarkable record for a player consistently ranked in the world’s top 20.In truth Blake has under-achieved at all four majors – three quarter final appearances from 30 Grand...
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June 23, 2009
US Open preview
The US Open starts later this month and the whole field knows who the man to beat is. Tiger Woods has regained full fitness and is expected to win his 15th major at Bethpage, New York. Woods has only one PGA tour win to his name since winning last year’s US Open, but few doubt he is ready to reacquaint himself with a major trophy.Woods tied for sixth place at April’s Masters...
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June 02, 2009
Roddick shows signs of improvement on clay
Easter is probably not Andy Roddick’s favourite time of year. It is when the ATP tour leaves behind the US hard courts for the clay of Europe, meaning the American’s battle for silverware and ranking points becomes instantly more difficult.Roddick might have the second best win percentage on clay by an American (behind Wayne Odensnik), but the slowest surface of all does not...
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May 19, 2009
Fight of the year yet to happen
Many boxing pundits suggested the IBO light-welterweight title clash between Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton was going to be the fight of the year. It was also billed as the battle for the tag of ‘pound-for-pound king’. It was neither of these; the fight of the year is still to come, when Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr face-off to see who is the best boxer on the planet.Of...
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May 04, 2009
Time running out for Kenny
The 2009 Masters was an excellent tournament with a thrilling finish. The tense three-way play-off between Angel Cabrera, Kenny Perry and Chad Campbell produced a record-breaking winner, but not the one that many expected as the event reached its climax. Cabrera became the lowest-ranked Masters winner since rankings were introduced in 1986, but with just two holes to go it seemed...
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April 21, 2009
NBA First Round Preview
The second season in the Association is finally here as the NBA Playoffs kick off with eight games over the next two days. As usual, there are no shortage of intriguing storylines to keep us interested over the next two months. Among them, the most captvating has to be the injury to Kevin Garnett and how that affects the defending champions. The Boston Celtics managed to edge out...
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April 18, 2009
Champions League Semis Has a Decidedly EPL Feel
The final four of the UEFA Champions League is now set, and with the exception of Barcelona, it's one big Premiership party. Thanks to an extremely clutch goal from Cristiano Ronaldo, three English teams fill out the semifinal slots, which means there's a good chance we could be seeing an All-English final in Rome for the second year in a row. Europe's premier club championship...
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April 16, 2009
A Changing of the Guard?
The San Antonio Spurs and Portland Trail Blazers may have the same record at 50-28 in the tightly contested Western Conference, but they are headed in opposite directions with the playoffs approaching. San Antonio has, and always will be, a force to be reckoned with as long as they have Tim Duncan and Tony Parker, but father time is quickly catching up to them. No team in the league...
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April 09, 2009
All is well in Tigerland
Tiger Woods is back where he belongs. Winning a tournament and dominating the field in a final round comeback, it was like he has never been away. By claiming the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando with a typical Woods performance, he extinguished any lingering doubts that his long injury lay-off would affect his chances at next month's Masters. He started the final round...
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April 06, 2009
Williams domination to continue at Miami
The Williams sisters’ domination at the Miami Masters is the sort they threatened to have in tournaments across the world when they burst on to the scene. Their often light tour schedule has prevented this, but they have retained a stranglehold on the Sony Ericsson Open throughout their rollercoaster careers.Venus and Serena have between them won eight of the last 11 Miami Masters...
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March 23, 2009
Major Conference Tournament Predictions
Nine bids to the Big Dance have already been confirmed; Northern Iowa, East Tennessee State, Morehead State, Radford, Tennessee-Chattanooga, Virginia Commonwealth, Cornell, Gonzaga, and Siena can all sit pretty until Selection Sunday, and watch as a whopping 22 more conference tournaments play ...
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March 10, 2009
Roddick secures U.S. Davis Cup victory
Andy Roddick continued his fine start to 2009 by defeating Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka in straight sets to give the U.S. team an opening round victory in the Davis Cup. The American?s ran out 4-1 winners overall, with Roddick?s victory ensuring that there wasn?t too much final day drama or ...
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March 09, 2009
Tiger Returns!
Golf is finally relevant again as Tiger Woods comes back from an eight month absence in the WGC-Acenture World Match Play Championships, which kicks off with first round action today. Featuring 64 golfers divided into four brackets, this is the sport's version of March Madness, complete with a ...
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February 25, 2009
The Most Disappointing Team in America?
Already on the outside looking in for an at-large bid, the Georgetown Hoyas stumbled through another huge opportunity to boost their profile, falling to sixth-ranked Louisville 76-58. The 18-point loss was the latest in a string of listless performances that has come to characterize this group. ...
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February 24, 2009
Mickelson welcomes the return of Woods
As we all know, Tiger Woods is set for his comeback after eight months out injured this week and it has been dominating the majority of golf news. The World No.1 has revealed how he is ?excited? about returning to competitive action as are the majority of golf fans around the world.Fellow ...
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February 24, 2009
DeJuan Blair Crashes Hasheem Thabeet's Party
Monday's titanic showdown between the top-ranked Huskies and fourth-ranked Panthers was supposed to be a forum for Haseem Thabeet to showcase his Player of the Year credentials, and assert that the Connecticut Huskies would be fine without injured guard Jerome Dyson. Thabeet had spent the last ...
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February 17, 2009
Duke/UNC Offers Nothing New, and That's the Way It Should Be
For the 226th time, the North Carolina Tar Heels and Duke Blue Devils will take the court against each other, and this one, like many others before them, is must-see television. College basketball's best rivalry will be renewed at Cameron Indoor Stadium, as the two teams take part in their ...
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February 11, 2009
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