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...success contributed to a good feeling in the nation, coinciding as it did with a commodity-fueled economic boom. Its cricket prowess was helped by an apparently endless seam of talent: brilliant batsmen, fast bowlers and a spin bowler, Shane Warne, who managed to do things with a cricket ball that nobody had imagined for decades. But Warnie is retired from test cricket, his pudgy frame and perpetually highlighted hair now to be found in the TV commentary box. In the first two tests of this southern summer, Australia's aging warhorses and green youngsters were outplayed by a South...
...Nadal's aura among fellow pros. When I asked the American player Andy Roddick about the changes, he couldn't believe that Nadal would voluntarily reduce the spin on his forehand. "One of the things that is difficult about facing [Nadal] is the extreme topspin he gets on the ball," Roddick told TIME. "If it's true, I don't think it would make him more effective...
Doctors gauged the sound produced by the patient's club, along with five other titanium clubs, and compared it with that of older-generation steel clubs. A measuring device was positioned 5.6 feet (1.7 m) away from a golf pro at an outdoor tee - approximating the distance between a ball and a golfer's closest ear. Doctors found that all six titanium clubs exceeded safe limits, while only two of the six steel drivers posed a hazard...
Thin-faced titanium clubs use a trampoline-like effect to propel the ball down the fairway. In 2002 the United States Golf Association banned drivers from competitive play if they were deemed to have too much of a trampoline effect, which might give an unfair advantage. But the trampoline effect also causes high-energy rebounding of the club's metal, resulting in the trademark "crack" that Buchanan thinks injured his patient's hearing. "What we've found is thin-faced clubs, both conforming and nonconforming, produce noise loud enough to damage hearing," he says...
...from the floor after the break and 26-of-64 for the game. “We did a real good job taking their offensive plan away from them,” Pusar said. “We made it difficult for them to pass the ball around the perimeter, and it was quite uncomfortable for them,” he added. —Staff writer Ted Kirby can be reached at tjkirby@fas.harvard.edu...