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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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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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010RealClearSports: Maria Is Just Fine; How’s Serena?By Art Spander STANFORD, Calif. — It’s easier to get information out of Washington than the WTA, which used to be called the Women’s Tennis Association, an organization which keeps secrets with ways the White House only wishes it could. The ladies are in Northern California this week, at the Bank of the West Classic on the Stanford campus, where if the importance doesn’t quite equal that of Wimbledon or the upcoming U.S. Open, the setting is far more enticing. © RealClearSports 2010 |
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010SF Examiner: Serena Williams a true winnerBy Art Spander LONDON — “I want winners.” That was the plaintive cry on billboards a year ago by Niners coach Mike Singletary. We all want winners. We all want champions. Losing, wrote John Tunis, is the great American sin. Copyright 2010 SF Newspaper Company |
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Sunday, July 4th, 2010CBSSports.com: Nadal a level above the rest as Spain’s memorable run continues
WIMBLEDON, England — The reign of Spain stays mainly wherever Rafael Nadal swings a racquet, whether the clay of Roland Garros or the grass of Wimbledon. Oh, that wrap-around top-spin forehand. Oh, that gleeful fist pump. Oh, that unusual somersault at Centre Court. © 2010 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. |
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010CBSSports: Sensational Serena brings Williamses’ Wimbledon dominance to new levelBy Art Spander WIMBLEDON, England — Maybe they should rename the tournament “Williams-don.” Those sisters have a forehand grip on women’s singles and that beautiful plate, the “Venus Rosewater Dish,” given to the champion. © 2010 CBS Interactive. All rights reserved. |
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