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Dent headlines Mecco 'battle'
Of The Morning CallRep. Charlie Dent has served the Lehigh Valley for three years now in Congress. But it's his overhand serve that will be tested in today's ''Battle of the Sexes,'' a part of the Mecco Cup tournament at Westend Racquet Club in South Whitehall Township. In...Tags: Court Administration, Weather Reports, ESPN, Lehigh Valley Weather, Tennis
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Mercer Island's Chang Inducted Into Hall of Fame
Former French Open champion Michael Chang of Mercer Island was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday. Chang, one of only three American men to capture the French Open singles title in the Open Era, burst onto the tennis scene by...Tags: Stefan Edberg, Death and Dying, Ivan Lendl, Michael Chang, Tennis
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Teaching women to chase dreams
Hackensack (N.J.) RecordBy Ian O'Connor CLIFTON, N.J. — No, it was not Billie Jean King swatting a washed-up Bobby Riggs from one end of the Astrodome to the other. But then again, Annika Sorenstam was not competing against old and feeble men when she teed it up...Tags: Arnold Palmer, Vijay Singh, Ernie Els, Tiger Woods, Annika Sorenstam
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Jack Drury dishes with book on famous pals
South Florida Sun-SentinelPhotos of show-biz legends — Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, Buffalo Bob Smith — line the bookshelves of Jack Drury's Fort Lauderdale office. A Howdy Doody doll rests on a chair outside his door. "I'd sit and look at all of this and think, 'Shut...Tags: Arcadia, Bob Hope, New York, Coral Springs, North Miami
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Looks aren't everything
Times Staff WriterWe've all got our guilty pleasures. Here at Got Game headquarters, I've found a new one: the lovely lady wrestling game Rumble Roses. Every few months a new version of SmackDown! lands on my desk, and invariably it matches up two steroid-fueled behemoths...Tags: People, Teen-agers, Computing and Information Technology, Wrestling
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Billie Jean King Bio Serves up a Matchless Hero
Zap2It.comBespectacled and always looking as if she were about to burst into giggles, Billie Jean King won a revolution brandishing nothing more deadly than a tennis racket. Those who came of age after the Nixon administration may not grasp why King strikes such a...Tags: Cher, Tennis
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Featured players
Times Staff WriterIN the big inning, there was Koufax. Baseball cradled in his left hand, his flinty eyes staring down another strikeout victim, he was the quintessential Los Angeles sports superstar of the mid-20th century, a larger-than-life mythic figure to a city...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, Anaheim Angels, Super Bowl, Portland Trail Blazers, O.J. Simpson
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Open Houses: The Best Are Welcome
Staff WriterTENNIS WAS INVENTED in England and its first American tournaments were played in Newport, Rhode Island, now home to the sport's hall of fame. But the tennis event that has rivaled Wimbledon as the world's largest and most important for almost a century...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, Althea Gibson, Long Island, Louis Armstrong, Babe Ruth
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'Anchorman'
Times Staff WriterWill FERRELL is the best thing to hit mainstream American movie comedy since the Farrellys thwacked it with spit and giggles. In his brief, ever-brightening film career, the funnyman has staked a claim on comedy with a screen persona that embodies the...Tags: DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Charlie Kaufman, Norman Mailer, Movies, Christopher Guest
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