'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
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For more than a century, some of the best men's tennis players in the world have come to the Bay Area almost every year.

Suppose the Mayans were right. Suppose we do interrupt this program Friday to bring you the End of the World. A grim thought, I know. But then, so is the idea of another "rebuilding" season for the Wizards.

When LeBron James learned he was Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year, the Miami Heat star was surprised. Not because he thought his achievements in 2012 weren't worthy, but because he figured what happened in 2010 was still holding him back. Apparently, that's no longer the case.
The Farmers Classic men's tennis tournament at UCLA has been discontinued, and its ATP sanction has been sold to a group in Bogota, Colombia.
In the midst of the Williams sisters' first bustling visit to Africa, Serena wasn't quite sure which country she was in Saturday.
Novak Djokovic would be the first to say there's no such thing as an easy road to a Grand Slam title.
Somehow, it seemed so easy for so many people to write off Roger Federer.

Somehow, it seemed so easy for so many people to write off Roger Federer.
The Brits know how to stage a coronation, and they'll do so Sunday for either regal Roger Federer or one of their own, Andy Murray.
Gil Noble, the longtime host of WABC-TV's groundbreaking public affairs program "Like It Is," on which he interviewed such notables as Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali and Jesse Jackson, died Thursday at age 80.

Andy Roddick, understandably, is rather tired of hearing the question, in one form or another: What's wrong with U.S. tennis?
Andy Roddick, understandably, is rather tired of hearing the question, in one form or another: What's wrong with U.S. tennis?
"With the help of the Worldwide Leader, [Jalen] Rose took baggy shorts, black socks, bald heads and trash talk and created the illusion the [Michigan basketball] Fab Five were some sort of transcendent, revolutionary freedom fighters cut from the same cloth as Jackie Robinson, Jim Brown, Arthur Ashe and Muhammad Ali," writes Jason Whitlock at Fox Sports.

Andy Roddick won the 30th title of his career in his 50th final Sunday, finishing off a thrilling 7-6 (7), 6-7 (11), 7-5 victory over Canadian Milos Raonic in the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships.
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