I know. The story is Roger Federer winning his 15th grand slam event, becoming the first guy with 15 championships in the Big Four tournaments. But I feel badly for Andy Roddick, who played as well as he can possibly play but still lost. Score of 5-7, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5), 3-6, 16-14. Yes. 16-14 […]

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These are women I have seen play. In person. That leaves out just about everyone from pre-1980. But includes most of the great players, aside from Margaret Court, Helen Wills Moody and Billie Jean King. I believe those three would have been competitive in any age, though the women’s game in the pre-Open era was […]

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This was supposed to be the day that Landon Donovan, Bruce Arena and the Galaxy were going to talk about the upcoming book by Grant Wahl in which Landon is quoted criticizing sometime Galaxy teammate David Beckham … but it didn’t happen. Instead, 1) Landon called in sick today and didn’t go to practice (he […]

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It works out as a sort of trade. The Lakers sign Ron Artest as a free agent, for three seasons and about $18 million, away from Houston. The Rockets sign Trevor Ariza as a free agent, for five seasons and about $30 million, away from the Lakers. And I like what the Lakers have done, […]

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Made the trip to the Home Depot Center today and waited two hours until Landon Donovan was done with the training staff. Or the training staff was done with him, anyway. He didn’t practice on this, his second full day back from the Confederations Cup, in South Africa. And even before he finally came out […]

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Uh-oh. This could be awkward. David Beckham is due back with the Los Angeles Galaxy inside of two weeks. Just in time for soccer fans in Los Angeles to have picked up a book (by Sports Illustrated senior writer Grant Wahl) in which it seems clear that Galaxy players don’t believe Beckham is emotionally invested […]

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