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...Crimson sent seven players to Denver this weekend to compete in the United States Squash and Racquet Association (USSRA) tournament and five of them made it to the quarter-finals...
...usually amounted to a hard look at an unwelcome call or a pumped fist, Jimmy Connors style, when things went his way. Now, at 21, he has learned from coach Jose Higueras that champions don't waste even that much energy overreacting. When a string popped on Courier's racquet at a hideously inopportune moment in the Australian final -- on a break point against Edberg that could have settled the second set -- Courier gave a barely perceptible shrug and strolled over for a replacement. Crowds there admired his tenacity and saw him as a fighter, a McEnroe without the abuse...
Courier's image is Everyman. Agassi has devoted himself to becoming a teen idol, in the process stirring more talk about his hairdos and haberdashery than about his serves and volleys. When reporters mention Agassi's millions from endorsement deals, Courier replies that he can make plenty wielding a racquet. Not that he is ruling out any options -- he has just auditioned for a deodorant commercial...
Idiot proof and practically maintenance free, the tough cycles are the transportation equivalent of the first oversize Prince tennis racquet introduced in the 1970s. Both represent high-tech sports magic in accessible form, an Everyman's ticket to an activity usually ruled by youth and muscle. Behind the growing bike boom in America are all those adventurous teenagers reawakening in millions of overtaxed grownups. Frustrated with sore knees, joggers are turning to biking. Desk jockeys once intimidated by drop-handle 10-speeds can now handle as many as 21 gears on a bike that looks more like something the paper...
This weekend at the United States Squash Racquet Association tournament in New Haven, however, the five 'chosen' members of the team didn't play like the number-two team they compose...