WIMBLEDON SEEMS OVERDONEGRIM IMAGE OF COLORLESS CLONES IS DRAGGING TENNIS DOWN
WIMBLEDON, England — It is not for me, as a slow, middle- class person with no backhand, to suggest to speedy foreign tennis millionaires that they need to improve their image. But I am going to do it anyhow.There is trouble here at Wimbledon. Beneath the...
Lisa In London
This is Lisa Bonder’s fourth trip to Wimbledon. By now, she knows the ups and downs. The ups, for example, are winning a first-round match and having the next day off. On Wednesday, such a day off; the 20-year-old player from Saline went shopping for a coat along fashionable Kings Road in London. She has been traveling 10 weeks. This was her way of rewarding herself.
“I haven’t bought anything in months,” she said, smiling.
Thursday, however, was not such a happy day. Bonder lost her second-round match, 6-3, 2-6, 2-6, to Anne Minter of Australia.
BIAS’ DEATH AFFECTS ALL BECAUSE HE WAS PART OF US
WIMBLEDON, England — Forget the dateline; this column is not about tennis. Sometimes you can’t help writing about home — even when you’re far away — and the moment the phone call came to my London hotel room, I knew this was one of those...
NO CONNORS? FORGET RED, WHITE — COLOR US BLUE
WIMBLEDON, England — Well, I got here and Jimmy Connors immediately lost. Was it something I said?Nah. Couldn’t be. The plane had just landed, the cab had just dashed me out to the courts, I had just dipped into my first cup of strawberries and cream, I...
MILWAUKEE FINDS THE WAY TO MAKE SCOTT SKILES’ DAY
The car pulled up and the young man stepped out and the kids from the basketball camp ran over and wrapped around him as if he were a cartoon character come to life. To them there was no past, no trouble, no jail sentence — there was only this guy in shorts and...
THE NBA TREND IS CLEAR: LOOK SKYWARD FOR TALENT
Chuck Daly poked nervously at his cottage cheese. There was an hour to go before the NBA draft, and already he had a vision of the future.”Did you see what Philly did?” he said. “Oh, man. They’re going after Boston. What a front line! What a...
IS IT OVER?MORRIS: TIGERS NOT REALLY CARING
TORONTO — Jack Morris objects.To all of it. The losing, the last-place standing, the ballooning ERAs, the stranded base-runners, this talk about Kirk Gibson being the Tigers’ only leader, this talk about Alan Trammell being a culprit, the no-movement...
Dan Petry’S Bone Chips Treated Tic-Tacky By Tigers
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GIANTS’ STEPS FORWARD SHOULD GIVE TIGERS PAUSE
“Hello? Roger Craig, please.””Sparky? . . . Is that you?””Yeah, Roger. It’s me. Your old boss.””You don’t sound so good, old boss.””I ain’t so good.””What’s the...Stay Connected
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