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Jimmy Connors Beat Gambling Addiction

Source: TheFix.com

Former US tennis champ Jimmy Connors has come clean about the gambling addiction that nearly "broke" him during the height of his career. Connors, who won eight Grand Slam singles titles in his career and was onc ...
Full article at: TheFix.com  More like this  2 days ago, 10:11am CDT

Nadal Growing Tiresome as Clay-Court Savant

Source: Real Clear Sports

Okay, allow me to invite an avalanche of criticism by saying something heretical, but also something many people are thinking: I’m getting tired of Rafael Nadal and his whole clay-court shtick. It’s all becoming a little bit ...
Full article at: Real Clear Sports  More like this  2 days ago, 12:03am CDT

Inside Story

Source: Tennis.com

It’s been hard to miss Jimmy Connors over the past week in New York City. He’s made pit stops at The Today Show, Mike and Mike, CenterStage, Hannity, and Charlie Rose, among, I assume, many others. He’s been wr ...
Full article at: Tennis.com  More like this  3 days ago, 5:57pm CDT

The Stigma of Abortion, and How It Connects Chris Evert and Kermit Gosnell

Source: BlogHer

We’ve had two major stories this week around abortion. As wildly different as they are, they both share an important thread. The first, of course, is the guilty verdict in the highly politicized trial of Kermit Gosnell. On Monday, the Pennsylvania abo ...
Full article at: BlogHer  More like this  3 days ago, 12:36pm CDT

The Stigma of Abortion, and How It Connects Chris Evert and Kermit Gosnell

Source: BlogHer

We’ve had two major stories this week around abortion. As wildly different as they are, they both share an important thread. The first, of course, is the guilty verdict in the highly politicized trial of Kermit Gosnell. ...
Full article at: BlogHer  More like this  3 days ago, 12:00pm CDT

The Jensen Zone: Your Spring Cleaning Approach to Tennis This Season

Source: Long Island Tennis

For many players in the north, our tennis is just starting to come out of our indoor hibernation to dealing with all of Mother Nature’s elements outside. This is one of the most frustrating aspects of the game. Indoor tennis is eas ...
Full article at: Long Island Tennis  More like this  3 days ago, 11:40am CDT

Tennis legend: We were playing in a real wild west show

Source: MSNBC

>>> all right. 48 past the hour. here with us now a man with a record 109 men's tennis singles titles tennis legends jimmy connors . "the outsider" is his new memoir. brian shactman just showed up and walked here talking to his i ...
Full article at: MSNBC  More like this  3 days ago, 9:59am CDT

Why did the DOJ seek Associated Press phone records?

Source: MSNBC

>>> department seizure of phone records . u.s. attorney general eric holder is defending the use of secret subpoenas saying the department's actions are critical to national security . nbc justice correspondent pete williams re ...
Full article at: MSNBC  More like this  3 days ago, 8:05am CDT

Why Rafael Nadal is the man to beat -- and not just at the French Open

Source: Oregon Live

Remember Bo Jackson? The 1980s and '90s superstar was an expert at every sport under the sun -- at least in Nike's popular, rose-colored-glasses TV campaign. "Bo knows tennis," John McEnroe told us, after Bo crushed an overhead into powder. No o ...
Full article at: Oregon Live  More like this  3 days ago, 7:08am CDT

Connors admits to million-dollar bet in match vs. Navratilova

Source: Tennis.com

In his new book, “The Outsider,” Jimmy Connors reveals that he had a serious gambling problem that led him to once bet $1 million that he would beat Martina Navratilova in their 1993 Battle of the Sexes match in Las Vegas. Connors bet that he would ...
Full article at: Tennis.com  More like this  3 days ago, 12:00am CDT


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