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...Poland off the pitch in the opening match. The one that lost 2-1 to Croatia and got by Austria 1-0 thanks to a Michael Ballack free kick blast doesn't appear to pose much of a threat to Portugal. And the Germans will be without their coach, Joachim Löw, who is serving a one-game suspension for getting dismissed during the Austria match. Although a second choice Portugal side lost to Switzerland - which salved some wounds for the co-hosts - tonight there will be Christiano Ronaldo and Deco to deal with, and as they showed against...
...suspended, as is their Rottweiler defensive midfielder Gennaro Gattuso. On the plus side, striker Luca Toni has to find the net sooner or later, and bad boy forward Antonio Cassano has put real menace in Italy's attack. But if this is indeed a newly mature Spanish side, as coach Luis Aragonés says, "The only thing we need now is a positive attitude. We have to forget it is Italy or whoever and think about winning - that's it." In the knockout phase, what other choice is there...
...through the turmoil. "I still remember the rules," she says. "If you start a match and the bombs come, you have to keep playing. But if the danger was there, you wouldn't start new matches." So much for child safety. "It was a risk," says Ivanovic's youth coach, Dejan Vranes, in the understatement of the Grand Slam season. "But people in the city did their jobs. No one hid in their house...
...invited Ivanovic and her mother to his home in Basel, the Swiss city that produced Roger Federer. "We all fell in love with each other," Holzmann says. He made a bet: he would cover Ivanovic's expenses, praying that she could repay him down the line. He hired a coach and paid for Ivanovic's training in Switzerland. Holzmann's bill: $500,000. As soon as Ivanovic signed a four-year, multimillion-dollar deal with Adidas in 2006, she gave Holzmann his money back. He's now her business manager: she'll make at least $10 million this year...
...would teach history and coach a couple of sports. I think that would make me very, very happy. That's always been my backup plan...