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The NCAA Division I Softball Women’s College World Series will take place starting tomorrow (5/29/2008) and running through June 4. Virginia Tech. will face Texas A&M for the Division I softball crown. Games will be held at the ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.

Only 13 of 72 scheduled men's and women's matches were completed on Tuesday at the rain-soaked French Open, where Nikolay Davydenko and Stan Wawrinka were the only two Top 10 seeds on and off the court.

"I was lacking practice and matches," said Baghdatis, who says he hasn't been playing of late for personal reasons. "I was not making the appropriate choices at the right time. I wanted to play, but the problem is I didn't know what to do."

ASHLEY HARKLEROAD: Yeah. Like, I don't know, I was just laying there for three weeks, and, you know, an offer came to me. I thought, Well, I'm not really doing anything right now. So I thought about it, and, you know, it was something that I did. I'm proud of my body. I was representing a female athlete's body, you know. Like Amanda Beard would have done, so, yeah.

The weather remains unpredictably rainy the next few days in Paris.

"Sometimes they put athletes in [Playboy]," said the Bible-studying Georgian Harkleroad. "Like [swimmer] Amanda Beard, or [volleyball player] Gabriella Reece. So I'll be the first tennis player ever. That's kind of cool. I really didn't think it was that big of a deal. I'm proud of my body. I stay in shape and try to stay fit. I'm just trying to represent a female athlete and her body. That can be sexy too."

Now another former No. 1 and French Open champ, Carlos Moya, has to wonder how much time he has left after a first-round exit in five sets to unheralded Eduardo Schwank.

A few days ago the Celtics did something that they had not done in the playoffs - they lost at home. Last night they continued their walk on the wild side by again doing something they had not done in these playoffs - they won on the road defeating the Detroit Pistons 94-80.

The Celtics road win puts them back in control and in a good position for the rest of the playoffs. The worst they can do is come back from Detroit tied 2-all, a decidedly better fate then if they had lost last night…

Rafael Nadal has never, ever lost a best-of-five set match on clay. Never. The Spaniard has a perfect 34-0 mark in his career in best of five matches on the dirt, but that fact is not the only reason I’m making him my pick to win a fourth straight French Open.

The answer is most probably yes. Detroit managed to do something that no other team has done to the Celtics during the playoffs. They beat them at the TD Banknorth Garden. Now for the Celtics to take the Eastern Conference Finals they need to do something they have yet to do in these playoffs - win on the road. It is starting to look like Detroit in 6 or 7.

A lesson that the Celtics should take from the New England Patriots. The regular season accomplishments become meaningless if you do not win in the playoffs…