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Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category

December 25th, 2007

Christmas!

Happy holidays to you and all of yours. I’m spending mine in the Bay area with family. I’m definitely used to a white Christmas so this whole 50 degrees and sunshine thing is throwing me off a bit but I’ll live. I’m not five years old anymore when Christmas is the culmination of the year, […]

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December 20th, 2007

Look-a-like

I actually like that show on the TV Guide channel where people who look similar to celebrities get made over with the right make-up and clothes to actually become even more like their famous counterparts.
Today I was walking towards the Golden Gate bridge (long story short, I walked for three hours all over San Francisco…yay!) […]

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December 9th, 2007

Celebrity Tennis

It’s not unusual for the celebs to be a part of the game of tennis for a charity event. The Bank of the West Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic was Saturday. Hosted by Luke and Murphy Jensen, former French Open doubles champions, the event featured the hosts, Jennifer Capriati and Monica Seles while having appearances from the […]

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November 13th, 2007

Tennis Toddlers

I knew people started playing tennis at an early age. Just because I grew up in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by corn, cows and the crystal-blue sky doesn’t mean all tykes were devoid of hardcourts and tennis balls.
But it’s so much different when you see a picture of tiny tennis tots. They’re just so…miniature.
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November 3rd, 2007

Stripes are in this fall

A while back, I blogged about Claire Lyte and her, ah, indiscretions with her teenage tennis client.
After a drawn-out trial, Lyte was jailed Friday. (I really wanted to say “thrown in the slammer” but I’m attempting to be Englishly genteel.) Lyte was convicted last month on four counts of sexual activity with a 13-year-old. Lyte’s […]

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October 24th, 2007

Visual World

Pictures are great; pictures are sweet.
Sometimes there is just too much emotion to capture it in words. That is when a camera comes in handy.
Take pictures, they last longer :)
This past week’s tennis in pictures.
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October 17th, 2007

Top 10 Tennis Quotes

I like a little fun now and then. Tennis wouldn’t be tennis without a few quotes to bat around, would it? I don’t know who decided these were the top 10, but if you’ve got a great tennis quote - put it in a comment below. Top 10 is subjective, right?
“Tennis is a perfect combination […]

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October 14th, 2007

Player-Coach Relations Part Deux

Sometimes I have observations and sometimes I like to talk about them.
Player-coach relationships can be a big deal.  Look at Andy Roddick. Being coached by Jimmy Connors was a pretty big factor in his career. And how many times have we seen Maria Sharapova’s coach mimic a monkey and wave bananas around?
The relationships and the […]

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October 11th, 2007

Player-Coach Relations, How Far is Too Far?

Claire Lyte, a tennis coach and an ex-professional tennis player, could tell you just how far is too far. I would also wager a guess she’s wishing it hadn’t gone that far. In 2005, Lyte was allegedly caught in bed with her 13-year-old tennis pupil. By the girl’s mother.
At the beginning of this month, the […]

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October 8th, 2007

It’s Like Dating

Singles or doubles? Dating is just like tennis - most people prefer single dates to double dates and most people prefer the singles tour to the doubles tour. Why? I don’t know - maybe because there is more action.
Single dates are really black or white. Either you click and things go well or you don’t […]

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