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Down 2-5 in the second set to Spain's Tommy Robredo yesterday, James Blake's U.S. Open romp appeared over. Robredo had already won the first set, and Blake, the man who outran the quickest tennis player on earth, Rafael Nadal, in a stunning upset on Saturday, had clay feet on the hard court surface. Blake's best shot, a blazing forehand, was a tad slow. Even his rowdy cheering section in Suite 236 of Arthur Ashe Stadium, clad in baby-blue t-shirts and self-dubbed the "J-Block," seemed a bit deflated...
...certainly not a day to be wearing black, or long pants, especially on a tennis court. But Spanish sensation Rafael Nadal has a reputation to uphold, not to mention a sponsor. His 3/4 length black Nike pants looked suffocating. But up top, Rafael was wearing a matador-red sleeveless number that looked like a body stocking with the arms cut out. Against the new blue court of the Ashe stadium-okay, I did go to the big court, just to take a look-Nadal stood out like a freshly painted fire hydrant. It was lunch time...
...over No. 19 seed Tommy Robredo of Spain. No, the former Harvard All-American—he went pro in 1999, after two years with the Crimson—had already proven himself capable of a big win on Saturday, when he knocked off No. 2 seed Rafael Nadal in three commanding sets...
There was a doubleheader of sorts last week as bloggers ripped into the Baltimore Orioles' Rafael Palmeiro, first for testing positive for steroids five months after testifying before Congress that he had "never used steroids--period" and then for claiming that he had unknowingly ingested the 'roids...
...outsiders, it seemed like an election glimpsed through Alice's looking glass. Everybody knew that the candidate with the most votes would not necessarily win. Indeed, President-elect José Azcona Hoyo last week set about forming a new government only after he had lost to Candidate Rafael Leonardo Callejas, 42, by more than 200,000 votes. The reason for the topsy-turvy outcome: a decision by a government election commission to award the presidency to the leading candidate of the party that received the most votes in overall balloting for national and municipal offices. Although the Honduran constitution requires...