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Depending on whom you ask, the absence of a dominant player is either a problem or a boon for tennis. Former Australian pro John Alexander thinks the latter. "We've entered an age where instead of a single great champion - or a single great rivalry - we have a crop of fine, equally matched players," he says. "It's going to be tough for any one of them to dominate ... but it'll be exciting to watch them try." Alexander includes in that group Hewitt, who topped the year-end rankings in 2001-02 before slipping to No. 16 last year...
...rankings and stringing together seven straight wins in two weeks - what's needed to claim a grand slam title - will ask sterner questions of his resolve. Whatever the obstacles, when it comes to making predictions about a man like Hewitt, the old line about never writing off a champion seems like very sound advice...
Well, his title bout with Clubber Lang was tough to be sure, but the last time Harvard could boast a national champion...
Harvard struggled to find its rhythm in the fall season, hampered by lingering off-season rust and injuries which curtailed the play of several team members. But those setbacks did not dissuade voters from giving the Crimson the highest ranking of any Ivy or Northeast region school. Defending national champion Florida topped the polls, while Stanford...
...East Harlem and funded it initially by appealing to local organizations and later private foundations. But it wasn’t until 1994 that the program was given federal funding to support replicating the model across the country. Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., was an early champion, according to Maria Vugrin, who is communications specialist at YouthBuild. “He not only introduced the bill but also drummed up a lot of support in Congress and showed why the program is effective,” Vugrin told me. Wider support, she said, came from legislators...