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Zultan's Fearless Forecast for Gridiron Glory, Week 9
The Iowa Hawkeyes are proving to be Zultan ’s Achilles heel this season. For the past two Saturdays, the Z’s only misses have come because the All-Seeing One misread the signs concerning the Hawkeyes' success on the gridiron...
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Week 8 of Zultan's Fearless Forecast: BCS Evicts Big Ten
Hawkeyes and the Big Ten Set Adrift by the BCS.... Well it was bound to happen. Once the BCS announced itself on Sunday, the Big Ten disappeared from college football polls, as if by magic...
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Zultan's Week 7 College Football Fearless Forecast
Zultan was so close to perfection this past weekend, but LSU failed to hold off the Florida Gators, going down 14-6. That was the Fearless Seer's only miscue this past Saturday—ending 9-1 in Week 6...
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Zultan's Fearless Forecast: Iowa, the Big Ten Plus the Top 25
Oh, the humanity! Zultan came within nine points of perfection, deceived by a dyslexic tremor on the crystal ball surface causing the big Z an unfortunate case of number reversal...
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Novak Djokovic Tops the Past 10 Champions at Indian Wells
Things are definitely heating up on the men's tour as the players head toward the California desert and the BNP Paribas Open, a Masters Series 1000 Tournament...
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Roger Federer and Andy Murray Face Off in the Shanghai Masters Final
Then there were two... It is quite a distance from the noisy, inevitably raucous fans down under in Melbourne to the slightly exotic, intoxicating tennis crowds of the orient assembled this week in Shanghai...
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Roger Federer in Shanghai: Reloaded and Lovely in Lavender
Robin Soderling is the No. 5 player in the world, but today he looked like a rank amateur as he faced Roger Federer in the quarterfinals of the Shanghai Masters. It was all over in less than an hour...
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2010 U.S. Open Tennis: Wednesday's Quarterfinals, Playing Against the Wind...
Action gets underway at the U.S. Open on Wednesday with two men’s and two women’s quarterfinal matches scheduled on Arthur Ashe Stadium. These are the final days of a torrid and exasperating two-week tournament coming into focus...
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U.S. Open 2010: Can Rafael Nadal Make It in New York, New York?
The thing you have to admire about Rafael Nadal is that he wishes only to play the game of tennis, not talk about it. He makes no pretense of being the Great Communicator like his rival, Roger Federer...
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U.S. Open 2010: Wednesday's Five Must-See Matches
On Wednesday there will be a full slate of action on tap with the men completing their remaining first round matches while some of the ladies begin to play second round encounters...
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U.S. Open Tennis: Can Anything Stop Jelena Jankovic's Skid?
Besides finding herself out the door early and often at many tournaments during the North American hard court season, Jelena Jankovic, the No. 4 seed at the U.S. Open, suffers from a tough draw heading into New York...
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2010 U.S. Open: Will Caroline Wozniacki Succeed As Number One?
As the U.S. Open gets underway, no one has been talking much about Caroline Wozniacki, the current World No. 2. She seems to make her biggest push of the season around this time of the year—the end of summer and the start of the U...
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Juan Martin Del Potro: The Next Number One?
The question remains––will Juan Martin del Potro be able to defend his Championship at the U.S. Open? The Argentine has been out of action most of 2010 after undergoing wrist surgery in January...
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Rogers Cup: Rafael Nadal Shakes Off the Rust To Advance
Rafael Nadal defeated Stanislas Wawrinka 7-6 (12), 6-3. Rafael Nadal scowled less but seemed to grimace more during his first set at the Rogers Cup in Toronto Wednesday evening, facing Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland...
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Pretty in Pink: Roger Federer into the Third Round at the Rogers Cup
There was magic in the air. Roger Federer returned to action Tuesday night at the Rogers Cup in Toronto wearing pale pink and painting the lines once again...
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Roger Federer Hires Coach Paul Annacone: One Day at a Time
For those of you who may have been away on an extended flight outside the ozone of this planet, Roger Federer has hired coach Paul Annacone, and he will be working with the American for the first time at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, Ontario...
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Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer Chance Meeting at Rogers Cup in Toronto?
As we get ready to head off at long last to Toronto and the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 Rogers Cup, we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief as the true hard court season begins in earnest...
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Dinara Safina: Ladies of Tennis Starting Over Again
There may be a handful of players with Dinara Safina’s talent on the women’s tour today, but the Russian woman, who is now 24 years old, may never find her way back to the top of women’s tennis again...
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Ana Ivanovic: Ladies of Tennis Starting Over Again
Ana Ivanovic wears a heavy cloak of vulnerability every time she steps onto the court; an aura of breathless anxiety as tennis fans everywhere wish for the dark-haired beauty to find the game that has seemingly deserted her...
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Maria Sharapova: Ladies of Tennis Starting Over Again
One of the tennis world’s stunning beauties, the long-legged Russian Maria Sharapova, found her on-court fortunes faded as she struggled to rebuild her fractured career a year ago...
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Tennis Star Wars Episode VII: Stealing the Force from Federer and Nadal
From the tenor of the most recent debates—the controversy over who is ascending and who is falling in men’s professional tennis goes on and on...
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Bjorn Borg Clone Rafael Nadal Doomed to Defeat in the Big Apple?
Put them in a line up, shoulder to shoulder. At first glance, these two men appear to have nothing in common...
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Roger Federer's Career: Picking the Bones
I could not help but notice the buzzards circling and swooping down on the scarred lawns of Centre Court as the media began to pick apart the skin and sinew of Roger Federer’s career...
