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Robert “Bob” Falkenburg, who saved three championship points en route to winning the 1948 Wimbledon men’s singles final at age 22 and brought fast food to Brazil during his post-tennis entrepreneurial career, has died. He was 95.

Amateur v Pro, hardest journey and Mills arrives

Amateur v Pro, hardest journey and Mills arrives

Amateur v Pro, hardest journey and Mills arrives

Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire announced Tuesday the completion of his offensive staff with the hiring of Stephen Hamby as offensive line coach, Josh...

CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. Has there ever been a more memorable and commendable depiction of a United States president than Bill Pullman as Thomas J. Whitmore? His performance in Independence Day as a former Gulf War pilot with a penchant for giving damn good speeches made the 1996 sci-fi blockbuster the most iconic film of the actor’s career th...

WIMBLEDON, England — The Big Three now have 20 apiece. It is a development that would have seemed unlikely to Novak Djokovic as he made his way onto the tour in the aughts with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal racking up Grand Slam singles titles. Federer was entrenched at No. 1 and had found his groove after an up-and-down start. Nadal, a genuine prodigy, was already all but unbeatable on clay courts in his teens and would soon challenge Federer on every surface. They were a duopoly, the domin...

Baker: Extraordinary people with extraordinary curiosity Ken Baker, Ph.D. Once upon a time, a long time ago, far, far away in a kingdom by the sea…there lived a boy who spent all his free time exploring the fields and forests around his house. Somehow, there never seemed to be enough time for hunting, fishing and just knocking about in nature. His father was one of the most renowned physicians in the land and expected his two sons to follow in his footsteps. So one day he packaged the lad off...

The tennis world mourns one of its greatest supporters Tony Trabert, who saw the sport from all angles as a major champion and ambassador both on and off the court, has passed away aged 90. His record of 106 match wins and 18 singles titles in the 1955 season remains one of the greatest years in tennis history. The universally popular American enriched tennis for more than 70 years as the world’s top amateur player, a contract pro, a manager of Jack Kramer’s troupe and executive director of...