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American tennis is on display next week at the mouthful 'Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and Cellular South Cup' in Memphis, where Andy Roddick, James Blake, and Sam Querrey are among the seeded players, with land mines galore within the draw.

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For decades, the issue of footwork patterns has been discussed and analyzed. Arguments surrounding the best "first step," whether it be a cross-over step, a jab-step, or a gravity or drop-step, have been discussed and studied by pros and players alike.

Andy Roddick put tour rookie Kei Nishikori in his place Thursday night at the SAP Open in San Jose with a snarling, glaring, obscenity-ridden 6-2, 6-4 victory.

Florida-via-Japan sensation Kei Nishikori, the 18-year-old winner of the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships last week, will face American No. 1 Andy Roddick on Thursday night at the SAP Open in San Jose. ADHEREL Roddick barely made the second-round meeting after a 6-3, 6-7(3), 7-6(5) win over big serving Aussie Chris “Penthouse” Guccione, who only made the [...]

Who’s Got the Funk… 1. Justine Henin Passes on Doha big money to give tribute to last-time WTA event in Antwerp — and takes the title.   2. Kei Nishikori Florida-based Japanese 18-year-old vaults to stardom after Delray Beach win. Too bad that with your ranking it’s back to the Challenger circuit. ADHEREL 3. Andy Murray Mop-headed Brit 1st player to win [...]

apan's Kei Nishikori, the 18-year-old training in Florida at the IMG/Bollettieri Academy, wasn't on anyone's radar at Delray Beach, even after he qualified into the main draw.

Pat Burrell Batting Count Summary - Baseball-Reference PI This is another tool that had been under wraps. This shows for batters and pitchers their various pitch summary data by count. For instance, in 149 3-2 counts in 2007, Pat Burrell saw 51 balls and 98 strikes. He took 5 strike 3’s looking. [...]

BOP Outcomes 2007 BOS 1 - Baseball-Reference PI Development on Baseball-Reference.com has been slow lately due to a lot of business stuff going on and a lot of work on our Football site, but now that pitchers and catchers have reported, so have I. This tool was some specialized development for a client, that I got to [...]

There is just something about college sports. Rooting for the underdog is very often rewarded. The big nationally ranked teams fall to lesser or unranked teams on a regular basis. The 2007 college football season was testimony to that.

The latest example comes from basketball: Wake Forest 86 - Duke (#2) 73. The Wake Forest Demon Deacons went into the game 16-8. They ended Duke’s 12 game winning streak giving them only their second loss of the season. Wake Forest also broke a 5 game losing streak in their series with Duke. But beating them by 13 points - priceless…