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They weren't the only stars rooting for Federer. At his home in California, Australian tennis legend Rod Laver, who won 11 Grand Slam titles in the 1960s, set his alarm for 5 a.m. to watch the match. Not far away in Los Angeles, Sampras rolled out of bed in time to catch Federer's winning shot, and then tell journalists that he believes that the Swiss player should now be considered the greatest ever. Woods was at home with his wife, "yelling at the TV, the whole deal...
...Read a Q & A: Tennis great Rod Laver Read a Q & A: Whiskey, a Travelogue
...tied Pete Sampras' record of 14 Grand Slam titles and become only the sixth player in history to win all four Grand Slam events (the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. and Australian Opens). In the GOAT Debate - Greatest of All Time - Federer now has only one rival: Rod Laver, the Australian star who not only won all four Slams, but twice did so in a calendar year (in 1962 and 1969). Laver's total of 11 Grand Slam titles could have been higher had he not been forced out of major events from 1963 to 1968, when Slams were...
...Wisc., where (in this otherwise oddly apolitical film) students can briefly be seen carrying banners that denounce the CIA. We're here for a How Not To course in New Age wooziness, mentored by L N (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a professor with tons of family money, and her sponging beau Rod (Josh Hamilton). At least the satire directed at this couple - a two-spouted fountain of cockeyed parenting theories - occasionally hits the mark. When Rod explains the mating of sea horses, L N purrs, "If I could, I would lay my eggs in your brood-pouch." Rod thinks...
...Vendela Vida, nonfiction author (Girls on the Verge), novelist (And Now You Can Go) and magazine editor (The Believer). Their published work usually softens and complicates any sweeping judgment about people by honoring their eccentricities. Why, then, are they so dismissive of Lily and Lowell, L N and Rod, and so adoring of Burt and Verona? Why create these folks if you don't want to live inside them for a while...