Dorks And Losers

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It’s matches like these that make watch­ing ten­nis so much fun.

Dur­ing the Sony Eric­s­son Cham­pi­onships at Madrid, Spain, the amaz­ingly beau­ti­ful Russ­ian Anna Chakve­tadze faced the very pretty Russ­ian Maria Shara­pova in one of the semi­fi­nal matches. I must say that both ladies have been smooth legs. It should’ve been a realy good match with Chakve­tadze hav­ing played very well the last few months and Shara­pova being a two-time Grand Slam winner.

But the result was the same as the pre­vi­ous three encoun­ters: straight set losses. Yes, Shara­pova beat my girl Chakve­tadze 6–2, 6–2. It’s highly unfor­tu­nate for Chakve­tadze since she beat Jelena Jankovic and Ser­ena Williams on the way to the semi­fi­nals. Too bad ten­nis cov­er­age in the United States is so spotty out­side the Grand Slam tour­na­ments because I would have liked to have seen those matches.

Yahoo! Sports had very uneven cov­er­age the WTA Cham­pi­onship. In a slideshow of the Chakvetadze-Williams match, out of 100 pho­tos, about 90 were of Williams (who retired from the match with an injury). Very disappointing.

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Shara­pova will meet Jus­tine Henin, who beat Ana Ivanovic 6–4, 6–4, in Sunday’s final.
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In other women’s ten­nis news, this ESPN arti­cle gives a good account on the pos­si­ble future stars of the WTA Tour: Nicole Vaidis­ova (!!!), Sha­har Peer, Tatiana Golovin, Agnes Szavay, Vic­to­ria Azarenka, and Agnieszka Radwanska.

Here’s an accu­rate Top 10 list of the female ten­nis hot­ties, with video.
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Should ath­letes linked to steroids not have their names leaked before proper evi­dence is cited?
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The Tampa Bay Rays (sounds weird, I know) should keep Eli­jah Dukes. That team won’t get much for the man’s tal­ents, so it might as well try to deal with Dukes’ prob­lems.
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The sav­ior of the music indus­try might be the long-dead vinyl for­mat.
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An exam­ple why rent con­trol doesn’t work. It’s also an exam­ple that if your City Coun­cil rep­re­sen­ta­tive can instantly match your prob­lems with your address, it’s not a good thing.

“Hi. I just moved into the neigh­bor­hood and have found my new land­lord to be some­what neg­li­gent. It’s a man­age­ment com­pany called Dermot.”

“Do you live at 121 Sea­man?” the councilman’s asso­ciate asked, instantly nam­ing my address.

“Uh… yeah.”

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One of the best sports pho­tos you will ever see. Also, an exam­ple why Boston Red Sox fans make ter­ri­ble par­ents.
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Hall­mark powns Paris Hilton.

“Hilton has become a house­hold name, based in large part on her efforts to draw atten­tion to her­self. Hav­ing done so, she has sub­jected her­self to pub­lic scrutiny and the parodist’s pen. The First Amend­ment does not allow her to respond by wel­com­ing the fawn­ing and flat­ter­ing, but silenc­ing the crit­i­cal and com­i­cal.“
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Quote from Dex­ter:

“I don’t know what kind of idiot thinks an inner­tube is gonna get him over 90 miles of open ocean. If you ask me, man, it’s Darwin’s the­ory at work.”

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