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Andre Agassi Shows Naked Photo of Wife Steffi Graf for Charity

I never followed tennis closely but I've always been a huge Steffi Graf fan. So it was with great interest that I followed the story of Graf's husband and former tennis great Andre Agassi promising to show a naked photograph of his wife to the highest bidder. Out of context it sounds like something Brett Favre...

Roger Federer Reaches Milestone of 900 Career Tour-Level Matches

Roger Federer became the first active ATP player to play in 900 tour-level matches on Thursday. The top-seeded, 16-time Grand Slam champion defeated American Taylor Dent, 6-1, 6-2, in just 50 minutes at the Stockholm Open in Sweden, logging his 727th ATP Tour victory in 900 total matches. What's even more impressive,...

Why Limit Super Pairings to Horses?

To Daniel Okrent -- whose identity as the inventor of rotisserie baseball is the one I'll use for this space -- the greatest baseball player ever was, unsurprisingly, Babe Ruth. It was Okrent's reasoning, which he conveyed in Ken Burns' epic television documentary "Baseball," that was refreshingly noteworthy. "He (Ruth)...

From the Baseline: US Men's Tennis Searching for Answers

Each Friday, From the Baseline serves up an inside look at tennis' hot topic of the week. With the final Grand Slam tournament of the season on American soil, this was supposed to be the time of year when U.S. tennis players and fans get a little payback. Over the summer, Americans watched their countrymen being abused...

From Spoiled to Rotten, the Story of American Men's Tennis

Pete Sampras used to warn us: American tennis fans were spoiled. Well, no chance of that anymore. The era of American dominance on the men's tennis tour ended a few years ago, but on Monday, the era of American presence ended, too. Andy Roddick fell to No. 11 in the world rankings, leaving a grand total of zero American...

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05/31/12 French Open 2012: Andy Murray and Jarkko Nieminen... Source: Telegraph - London - UK Nieminen is the world No48 and has never managed to take a set off Murray in their three meetings.
05/23/12 Promoter still sees potential in Agassi, Graf... Source: Taipei Times Ticket sales for an upcoming tennis exhibition in Taipei featuring legends Andre Agassi and his wife, Steffi Graf, have been slow, the event's promoter said on Tuesday, but added that it was hoping for a late surge in interest.
05/22/12 Famous bald men (PHOTOS); politicians, celebrities and... Source: The Post Chronicle - Denville NJ Famous bald men (PHOTOS); bald politicians, bald celebrities and bald athletes.
05/16/12 Agassi Talks Olympic Gold and A new Golden Era of... Source: The Big Lead It still seems strange for Andre Agassi to look out on a tennis court which he is still not that far removed from and refer to any present era as "Golden," other than one he has played in.
05/15/12 Agassi, Graf reminisce about Olympics Source: USA Today Andre Agassi regards his 1996 gold medal as the pinnacle of his career, and yet that's the only time he competed in the Olympics, passing up other chances.