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...which took more than seven waterlogged hours to complete and ended with a Nadal victory in near darkness - is widely considered to be the greatest tennis match ever played. Strokes of Genius uses the match as a scaffolding to talk about the two tennis greats, their rivalry and the sport's beauty. TIME caught up with Wertheim, Sports Illustrated's tennis writer, as he prepared to cover Wimbledon 2009, which began on June...
Connecting with voters after 12 years in government isn't easy. In a society such as Britain, where politics is a contact sport, every crunching tackle covered by a breathless and indefatigable national media, the bonds between the public and their elected leaders inevitably fray over time. But connecting with voters who believe politicians to be corrupt, venal and self-obsessed is an even taller order. And that is now Labour's task. The party has endured a long, slow decline, but its current crisis was triggered by one of the greatest press exposés of the modern...
Formula One racing is a bit like evolution governed by an appeals committee: winning races has long relied on engineering innovations that give a race car that extra microsecond advantage, while the teams left in the dust cry foul and demand that the sport's governing body, the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), rule those innovations out. FIA supremo Max Mosley had hoped to tamp down what he calls the sport's "financial arms race" by imposing a $66 million annual spending cap on teams, but instead he appears to have provoked a walkout that could see some...
...FOTA as a whole, and Ferrari in particular, amount to serious violations of law, including willful interference with contractual relations, direct breaches of Ferrari's legal obligations and a grave violation of competition law," an FIA statement read. As the two sides dig in, the biggest loser is the sport. If Formula One does end up splitting, says Aylett, "people might go watch rugby...
...carmaker's technology to sharpen the focus of the Chrysler brands, insiders say. For example, Fiat's technology could allow Chrysler to build a reputation for high performance - not something it's known for today. The new technology could also augment Chrysler's traditional strength in four-wheel-drive, sport utility and truck segments, which are under pressure from rising fuel prices...