The Spanish Armada arrived in Mar del Plata, Argentina as underdogs, but as of today they are leading the host country 2-1. Yesterday, David Nalbandian defeated David Ferrer in the first singles match, followed by an impressive performance by Feliciano Lopez, who beat Juan Martin del Potro. But I think the most exciting match so far was today's doubles between Lopez/Verdasco and Nalbandian/Calleri, won by the Spanish team. Wherever Rafa is, I'm sure he's jumping with joy, tendonitis and all. According to the Herald Tribune , yesterday Rafa called members of the Spanish team from a hotel room in an undisclosed location. He called ...
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Guess what David Nalbandian's doing? No, he's not picking his nose. Instead he's picking up the pieces after a terrible loss at home in the Davis Cup final last weekend. A sullen-looking Nalbandian said he was devastated by the loss. “Understand the pain of a player not being able to score a point in an important series,” Nalbandian said. “Understand the anguish and unease right now. “Things went badly, but the terrible weekend is over,” he said. Nalbandian gave Argentina its only point in the best-of-five series, beating David Ferrer 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 in the first singles match Friday. Nalbandian and Agustin Calleri lost ...
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Another tournament rolls around, and another episode in the long running series entitled "Scotland Are Looking Better This Year" is aired as usual. Like every other installment in this series, I expect this one to end with the rugby equivalent of the denouement of Se7en ; except it will be Scotland's hopes in Brad Pitt's box, rather than Gwyneth Paltrow's head. Plenty of opinion is focusing on the errant view that Wales do not like this fixture and that their record is poor at Murrayfield. Fact is, the last four meetings in Edinburgh have yielded two Scottish wins, one for Wales and a draw ...
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The Disney Channel's "Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie" has become cable's No. 2 scripted telecast on records. The tween movie scored over 13.5 million total viewers. The movie, number 77 for the channel, became cable's No. 2 scripted telecast of all time in Total Viewers at 13.5 million, and cable's No. 2 telecast ever in Kids 6-11 (5.3 million/21.8 rating) and Tweens 9-14 (4.6 million/19.0 rating), behind August 2007's mega-hit, Disney's "High School Musical 2." In Kids 6-11, "Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie" now ranks as TV's No. 1 telecast of 2009, surpassing NBC's "Super Bowl" by scoring 5.3 million viewers vs. ...
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How much is travel destined to change over the next few years? Quite a lot if the following are anything to go by... I for one, really would've loved to check out the new 'Hotelicopter'!! (if it wasn't just an April Fools Day joke)... The Future Of Travel (the real McCoy - no April Fools jokes here) (Thanks to News.com.au - click thumbnails to enlarge) 1. Hotels in space ... the Galactic Suite, the first hotel currently being built in space, is expected to open for business in 2012 and will allow guests to travel around the world in 80 minutes. Its Barcelona-based architects ...
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