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...journalist who is also a keen club player, the chance to hit balls with a four-time majors winner is too good to miss. Dressed in traditional white, Cooper takes his place on one side of a friend's court in the middle of a Brisbane scorcher. Any fears for the legend's health evaporate after 10 minutes' rallying, when the younger man is drenched in perspiration while Cooper might have been playing checkers in the shade. "You hit a nice ball," he flatters. "You play the modern way-topspin forehand and double-handed backhand." Cooper's style...
Without a conference tournament, the opening games in conference play in the Ivy League matter more than in any other conference in Division I basketball.With the automatic NCAA bid only going to the regular season winner, a slow start in league play is usually devastating, while a fast start can jump a team into title contention.“We have a young team with so many freshmen and sophomores,” said Harvard head coach Frank Sullivan. “What we have been trying to impress upon them is every game is a must win. Every half...
...goals and an assist during the Crimson’s two games last weekend, a 5-1 win at RPI on Friday, followed by a 3-2 win at Union the next night. He scored once in each game, with his goal against the Dutchmen being the game winner. With four minutes remaining in a 2-2 game, Pelle deflected a pass from junior forward Paul Dufault into the Union goal for what would be the last goal scored in the contest. Richter started and won both games last weekend for his third and fourth wins on the season...
...first decisions Nancy Pelosi had to make after she was sworn in as Speaker of the House was one of the most basic in a democracy: whether to seat the state-certified winner of an election. Vern Buchanan, a wealthy Republican car dealer, was declared the victor of the House election in Florida's 13th District by 369 votes in November. But 18,000 voters from a heavily Democratic county somehow didn't register a choice in that particular race, and Buchanan's opponent, Christine Jennings, claims their votes were swallowed up by paperless electronic-voting machines. Jennings has brought...
...Titanic are franchise movies, and seven of those nine are sequels--episodes of Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and Shrek. (That's in actual figures. In inflation-adjusted dollars, 1939's Gone With the Wind is still the all-time winner, and no sequels make the top 10.) Dead Man's Chest, last year's second installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, was only the third film in history, after Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, to earn more than $1 billion in theaters...