Friday, September 3rd, 2010CBSSports.com: Wonderful Woz displays wizardry on and off the courtBy Art Spander 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 what Thursday became her summer of love — or double bagels, if you prefer. © 2010 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. |
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010RealClearSports.com: Leinart, Roddick … What Might Have BeenBy Art Spander 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. © RealClearSports 2010 |
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010CBSSports.com: Last year’s darling Oudin out early — can she fight back?By Art Spander 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 — actually, from the suburbs of Atlanta — who wrote “BELIEVE” on her sneakers and wrote a new chapter in tennis, knocking off three seeded Russians before finally falling to the eventual runner-up, Caroline Wozniacki. © 2010 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. |
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2010SF Examiner: A’s having a tough time in the Big AppleBy Art Spander 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. Copyright 2010 SF Newspaper Company |
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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010CBSSports.com: While heat rages, Day 2 at Flushing Meadows is about survivalBy Art Spander 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 that’s exactly what I did.” © 2010 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. |
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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010RealClearSports: Sweat and Panic Fill Big Apple SummerBy Art Spander 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 commercial a bit, the best sporting place on earth. There’s sweat. And panic, the two staples of a New York sporting summer. There’s variety. © RealClearSports 2010 |
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010CBSSports.com: Venus lone woman to carry Stripes at U.S. OpenBy Art Spander 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 player, missing because of an injury, Venus is the only American among the 32 seeded women in the U.S. Open. © 2010 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. |
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010SF Examiner: New year, new message for RaidersBy Art Spander 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 the back. “We are going to win the AFC West and then after the Super Bowl.” My, my. Copyright 2010 SF Newspaper Company |
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Wednesday, August 25th, 2010RealClearSports: Leaking Baseball’s Worst-Kept SecretBy Art Spander 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 please put a video on YouTube. © RealClearSports 2010 |
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