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...prone and disinterested since she and her sister Venus dominated the game earlier in the decade and written off as plain washed up after losing to ... Bammer-- can now ponder the preposterous. A Grand Slam. Williams took the Australian title, crushing the sport's hottest star, Russian-born, American-bred Maria Sharapova, in the final, 6-1, 6-2. She followed that up with another impressive hard-court title at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, again dismantling Sharapova, 1 and 1, en route to beating the world's current top-ranked player, Justine Henin, for the championship. "The fact...
It’s distinctly unoriginal to point out that Harvard students are born and bred overachievers, hypercompetitive by nature. Harvard undergraduates tend to be the sort of people who are practiced at delivering the exhortation that “winning isn’t everything” without a shadow of irony, yet completely disingenuously. Put them at the helm of make-believe armies in a campus-wide game of Risk and you’ll find yourself face-to-face with their darker side; a ruthless ambition to win so intense that anyone who dares...
...most talented fighter, Floyd Mayweather Jr., 30, a self-described "hustler" who was nearly gunned down as a baby and is, kindly, referred to by one promoter as "a huge pain in the ass." Pit him against the sport's last glamour boy, Oscar De La Hoya, 34, bred tough in East L.A. but now a clean-cut corporate sweetheart whose broad, boyish smile has made millions swoon into his corner. Naturally, his charm has also turned off others who would love a guy like Mayweather to coldcock that grin off his face. De La Hoya, an Olympic gold medalist...
Morgan Pressel might have been a tennis player. It was in her genes. Her mother was a teaching pro, and her uncle is Aaron Krickstein, the Bollettieri Academy--bred kid who reached No. 6 in the world. But tennis is no longer the only sport affording women a nice living, and Pressel's decision to practice bunker shots over drop shots at age 8 is starting to pay off. She's currently third on the 2007 LPGA money list, with $432,833, after winning the Kraft Nabisco Championship this month, becoming the youngest woman, at 18, to take a golf...
...program is a source of national pride; plus there's the fuzzy economics: zoos donate money to China in exchange for the right to display pandas. In the U.S. four zoos, including the National Zoo in Washington, are each paying $10 million over a decade for their Wolong-bred bears...