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| Nadal beats Djokovic to win 6th Italian Open (Yahoo! Sports) Mon, 21 May 2012 09:54:22 PDT
ROME (AP) Rafael Nadal showed he's still the man to beat on clay, defeating Novak Djokovic 7-5, 6-3 Monday in a rain-delayed final to win his record sixth Italian Open and regain the No. 2 ranking. |
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| Robin Soderling out with mono until after Olympics (Yahoo! Sports) Mon, 21 May 2012 10:08:02 PDT STOCKHOLM (AP) Two-time French Open runner-up Robin Soderling will miss the French Open, Wimbledon and the Olympics while he recovers from mononucleosis. |
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| Fish and Petkovic pull out of French Open (Yahoo! Sports) Mon, 21 May 2012 12:57:26 PDT PARIS (AP) Tenth-ranked Mardy Fish and women's No. 16 Andrea Petkovic are among several players who pulled out of the upcoming French Open on Monday. |
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| Germany, Serbia, Czech win at Team World Cup (Yahoo! Sports) Mon, 21 May 2012 11:49:01 PDT DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) Tomas Berdych helped the Czech Republic rally for a 2-1 victory over Japan at the Team World Cup on Monday. |
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| Paszek into 2nd round of Strasbourg (Yahoo! Sports) Mon, 21 May 2012 11:44:49 PDT STRASBOURG, France (AP) Tamira Paszek overcame a second-set blip to beat Alberta Brianti of Italy 6-4, 0-6, 6-4 in the first round of the Strasbourg International on Monday. |
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| Rain washes out day's play at Open de Nice (Yahoo! Sports) Mon, 21 May 2012 11:09:06 PDT NICE, France (AP) Heavy rain washed out all play at the Open de Nice clay-court tournament on Monday. |
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| Black undercount found in 1940 census records (Yahoo! Sports) Mon, 21 May 2012 00:28:04 PDT NEW YORK (AP) It was on the streets of her Harlem neighborhood in the 1940s that teenager Althea Gibson began working on the tennis skills that would take her all the way to winning Wimbledon. |
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| Serena Williams withdraws with back injury (Yahoo! Sports) Sat, 19 May 2012 04:47:30 PDT
ROME (AP) Serena Williams withdrew from the Italian Open with a lower back injury shortly before she was scheduled to meet French Open champion Li Na in the semifinals on Saturday. |
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| US loses twice to Argentina at Team World Cup (Yahoo! Sports) Sun, 20 May 2012 10:47:39 PDT DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) Andy Roddick and Ryan Harrison lost singles matches Sunday, giving Argentina an unassailable 2-0 lead over the United States on the opening day of the Team World Cup. |
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| WTA Championships seeks host city for 2014, beyond (Yahoo! Sports) Wed, 16 May 2012 07:27:22 PDT ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) The women's tennis tour is opening the bidding process to find a host city for its season-ending WTA Championships starting in 2014. |
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 21, 2012 is:
boniface • \BAH-nuh-fuss\ • noun
: the proprietor of a hotel, nightclub, or restaurant
Examples:
Jones' retirement will be celebrated, but it also means that for the first time in 45 years, the city's oldest hotel is in need of a new boniface.
"Vince Bommarito, boniface of Tony's restaurant at 410 Market Street, said last week was one of his busiest in years and that this week is shaping up to look the same." — From "Deb Peterson's Breaking Schmooze" blog at stltoday.com (Web site of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch), October 18, 2011
Did you know?
"Boniface" has been the name of eight popes, one antipope, and one saint, but none of those had anything (directly) to do with the English word "boniface." The word "boniface" comes from the name of the jovial innkeeper in George Farquhar's 1707 play "The Beaux' Strategem," the story of two penniless rakes who determine that one of them must find and marry a wealthy lady. Farquhar's play made more than one contribution to the English language. The name of the character of Lady Bountiful is a byword for a generous (and often conspicuously so) philanthropist. Farquhar, incidentally, never got to see the influence his play had on the lexicon. He finished "The Beaux' Strategem" on his deathbed, and died on the night of its third performance.