The only male American player of any import (unless you count James Blake) is Andy Roddick, and he was hoping to win the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. He had a heck of a gantlet to run, however: World No. 3 Novak Djokovic, world No. 1 Rafael Nadal, then world Nos. 2 or 4 […]

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Gosh, that was ugly. But UCLA has been ugly before, this season. These Bruins never really dominated anyone important, and they never gave a sense of being able to become that team. No one paying any attention to this team ever could have thought they would get to the Final Four for the fourth consecutive […]

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