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...eight matches against Nadal. Rafa has a technical advantage: he's a lefty, so his topspin-heavy forehand often crosses high to Federer's backhand, forcing Federer out of position. But more important, Nadal toys with Federer's psyche. "Rafa must be in Roger's head," says Croatian Ivan Ljubicic, the world's third-ranked player and one of Federer's close friends. "There's no other explanation." Federer denies that Nadal has spooked...
...Ivan Seidenberg...
...most, it was simply a poignant moment in June's World Cup. Scoring his team's third goal to seal a victory over Costa Rica, Ecuador's Ivan Kaviedes pulled out a Spider-Man mask from his shorts, donned it and danced across the field, to the cheers of Ecuadorian fans. He did so in the memory of teammate Otilino (Spider-Man) Tenorio, killed in a 2005 car crash. But Marvel Entertainment executives took Kaviedes' tribute as their own. For a comic-book publisher, it marked a feat of superhero proportions: in less than a decade, the company...
...using illegal blood transfusions. Then came Roberto Heras, the 2005 Tour of Spain winner who tested positive for EPO (a substance that increases the number of red cells to expand the oxygen-carring capacity of the blood) later and was disqualified and banned for two years. Then Ivan Basso, the Italian who dominated the 2006 Giro de Italia and was expelled, along with two others, from this year's Tour after being implicated in the antidoping operation carried out by Spanish authorities last May. And now Landis...
...Landis's win was a dream result for the Tour. For a few days at least, the comeback overshadowed yet another cycling doping scandal that eliminated several of the pre-race favorites, like Germany's Jan Ullrich and Italy's Ivan Basso. Their withdrawals could take nothing away from Landis's alpine achievement. "That was just crazy - the most impressive thing I've ever seen," says Jonathan Vaughters, who has been riding and coaching on the pro cycling circuit for the last 13 years. "It was like throwing a Hail Mary from one end zone to the other with...