By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange/CBSSports.com

NEW YORK — She’s the Wonderful Wizard of Woz, a beautiful blend of blonde hair and big backhands who has opponents running and paparazzi chasing.
Caroline Wozniacki has been taking no prisoners and very little time on …
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By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com
NEW YORK - Andy Roddick has departed, and apropos of nothing but pertinent to everything, Matt Leinart could be arriving, although the belief is he’ll end up in another town.
Two young athletes, two different sports, two levels of frustration.
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By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange/CBSSports.com
NEW YORK — She seemed equal parts intensity and innocence, a teenager who was quintessentially American and, with a lot of hustle and enough of a forehand, worked her way into the quarterfinals and into our hearts.
Melanie Oudin was the shining star of last year’s U.S. Open, the kid from next door …
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By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner
SAN FRANCISCO — ‘They crawl, they baffle, they bite,” was the headline in the New York Times. No, not the Yankees. Bed bugs, although to the A’s, it may be hard to distinguish.
New York has been hit by an infestation. The A’s merely are being eaten up by Yankee hitting.
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By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange/CBSSports.com
NEW YORK — The endless summer, tennis in the heat of the day and night, matches with athletes looking for shelter and service breaks, a U.S. Open that on the second day seemed destined never to close.
“Somebody in the stands over there kept saying, ‘Hang on, hang in there,’” remembered Novak Djokovic. “So …
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By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com
NEW YORK — Hot, baby. Maybe not enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk, but plenty hot. Literally — on-court temperature Tuesday afternoon during the U.S. Open was something like 110 degrees — symbolically, as the headlines indicate.
This is always the best time of the year in, to modify that Snapple …
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By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange/CBSSports.com
NEW YORK — Not so very long ago, Venus Williams was a tennis ingenue, the kid with beads in her hair and fire in her serve. Now, as U.S. women’s tennis sinks to levels once unimagined, she has become the savior.
It’s hard to believe that with her younger sister Serena, the world’s top …
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By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com
Tiger Woods is finished. That’s not me talking, That’s Drew Magary, who writes for several Internet sites, including Deadspin and according to one admirer, “possesses a keen insight into pro sports’ unyielding loads of,” well, we paraphrase and use “garbage.”
Which one might consider Magary’s prediction about Woods.
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By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner
NAPA — Slogans they got. You’re familiar with “Commitment to Excellence,” the words if not the results. Now the Raiders are presenting players T-shirts that in effect sneer at the derision the team unfortunately has earned in recent years.
“The Affirmation, Champions,” one motto begins, on the front and then switches to …
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By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com
You mean it took secret information to confirm the Pittsburgh Pirates haven’t spent for talent? No one could figure that out when the Buccos are waddling through an 18th consecutive losing season?
We needed a leak from the inner sanctums about the financial statements of this team and other teams? Sure. And …
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