Philippoussis set for Open wildcard The West Australian
Tennis Australia has strongly hinted that Mark Philippoussis would again be given a wildcard into next month's Australian Open. Philippoussis, who has had a topsy-turvy year, is well outside the cut-off point for direct entry and has ignored TA's wildcard play-off tournament starting on Friday.
Sweeting on turning to US The Nassau Guardian
You can take the boy out of the island, but you can't take the island out of the boy. This seems to be the case with 2005 Junior US Open Singles Champion Ryan Swe-eting, who is participating in the 6th Annual Mark Knowl-es Celebrity Tennis Tourna-ment.
Hunt, pioneer in AFL and NFL, dies at 74 The Arizona Republic
DALLAS - His family name was synonymous with Texas oil, but Lamar Hunt, once a third-string football player at SMU, had other plans: He would start a professional football league at age 26.
Squash makes some racquet The Christian Science Monitor
The difficult game with prep-school roots is gaining a small bounce outside the East Coast.
Davenport set to retire Eurosport
Lindsay Davenport is set to retire after revealing she is pregnant.
The 2006 sporting year in quotes Independent Online
Do you remember who uttered the following during 2006? "He was a time bomb waiting to go off and it went off."
Australian tennis: on life support The Age
If no local player qualifies for the Australian Open in future, there will have been no lack of warning.
UPI NewsTrack Sports UPI
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 13 (UPI) -- St. Louis Rams linebacker Pisa Tinoisamoa likely is headed for injured reserve after his second broken hand this season. He broke his right hand in Monday night's 42-27 loss to Chicago. He broke his left hand in practice Oct. 25.
Lamar Hunt: 1932-2006 KCChiefs.com
The National Football League and the American sports community lost a true treasure at approximately 10:00 PM on December 13, 2006 when Chiefs Founder Lamar Hunt peacefully passed away at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas at the age of 74.
YEAREND-Sports quotes of 2006 Reuters via Yahoo!7 Sports
LONDON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - The 2006 sporting year in quotes:
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