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Keyshawn Johnson to have design reality show
ESPN analyst and former New York Jets wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson apparently has the decorator's touch. The 36-year-old is set to star in a 10-episode A&E series, "Keyshawn Johnson: Tackling Design," due next year. In the meantime, a luxury...Tags: Mandy Moore, Keyshawn Johnson, Human Accomplishments, Property, John Martin
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Local tennis official Madeline Zausner, 67, dies
john.jeansonne@newsday.comFamily and friends will throw a party Sunday to celebrate the life of longtime local tennis official Madeline Zausner, who died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on Oct. 17. She was 67. "We're not fans of leaving people with a sad taste in their mouths," said...Tags: Tracy Austin, U.S. Open Tennis, Death and Dying, Diseases, Cancer
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Candidates' shot at hunting mostly a miss
So my boss, a nice enough fellow, wanders up to my cubbyhole the other day with an idea for a column: Lay out the positions of Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama on outdoors issues. As that great political observer John McEnroe might reply,...Tags: Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Mike Huckabee, Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney, John Kerry
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Blame the human brain for bad calls in tennis
UC Davis scientists have confirmed what tennis great John McEnroe so colorfully alleged on the court: Wimbledon referees make bad calls when judging balls hit close to the line.
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To the '80s and back again for Patty Smyth
Of The Morning CallSinger Patty Smyth says she first noticed the phenomenon when she left the '80s rock band Scandal and played her first solo tour in 1992. Crowds loved her hit song with Don Henley, ''Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough.'' But when she played Scandal's MTV...Tags: Joan Jett, Don Henley, Consumer Electronics Industry, Film Festivals, Elton John
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Dodgers-Giants rivalry comes to a parade head
Some, perhaps, take the Dodgers- Giants rivalry a bit too seriously. . . . In San Francisco, Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier threatened to introduce a resolution calling for Tom Lasorda's removal as grand marshal of today's Italian Heritage Day parade,...Tags: Andrew Bynum, John Lackey, Donald Sterling, Chad Billingsley, Albert Pujols
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Murray's wait is nothing compared to Britain's
johnette.howard@newsday.comOf course this china-smashing, cart-toppling, dreamlike rush to the brink of history couldn't be easy for Scotland's Andy Murray. For tennis players from Great Britain, it never is. When the rains came Saturday, interrupting Murray's quest for an epic U....Tags: Hip Hop, Will Ferrell, U.S. Open Tennis, Tim Henman, Boris Becker
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At 49, McEnroe is still McEnroe -- or Donald Duck
O, by the WayJohn McEnroe reminds me of my all-time favorite Disney character. John McEnroe is Donald Duck.Think about Donald going into one of his tirades, hopping up and down, fists balled, sputtering a string of unintelligible duck epithets. McEnroe, right?Well,...Tags: Donald Duck
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Companies vie to hand Phelps money
Sun reporterIt was one of the first questions fans started asking after Michael Phelps achieved the improbable feat of winning eight gold medals in one Olympics: What will he be worth? Companies are already lining up to hand Phelps millions of dollars to associate...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Swimming, Nike Incorporated, Michael Jordan, Celebrity
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In tennis, doubles can be twice as nice
All match long Monday on the grandstand court at Flushing Meadows, the fans kept rising and screaming, kept cursing and cajoling and shouting to the hot blue sky.
This was not for Venus or Serena. Not for Roger, Rafa or that long-limbed upstart...Tags: Mahesh Bhupathi, U.S. Open Tennis, Bill Tilden, Martina Navratilova, Multi-Sport Events
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Andy Roddick set to turn it around at U.S. Open
mdickstein@am-ny.comWith a hot start to the year and a debilitating shoulder injury behind him, Andy Roddick said Thursday that 2008 has been "a tale of two years." But for the big-serving American, it's also been a tale of two careers -- from wunderkind to workhorse,...Tags: U.S. Open Tennis, Injuries, Roger Federer, Macy's
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Ashe brought class, dignity to U.S. Open win
john.jeansonne@newsday.comArthur Ashe is a stadium now, which will have to suffice for tomorrow night's 40-year celebration of tennis' transformative "open era" that dawned in 1968. Of the 40 people - 21 men and 19 women - who won at least one U.S. singles title during that time,...Tags: AIDS, Pete Sampras, Elections, Michael Jordan, Bill Johnston
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