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Moving on to face caroline wozniacki saturday. nick defended number 16 after taking the first set 6-4, he was narrowly ousted but came back strong to take the third, 6-3. faceding roger federer who advanced to semis yesterday afternoon by fighting off two match points in a third set tiebreaker to tweet tomas berdych. the ncaa tournament. the gamecocks best player has fallen in, thornwell missing the teams workout after arriving in phoenix yesterday because what head coach called a little body ...

Navratilova. thats what we want to turn in over and over. >> three match points to martina navratilova. >> this man has a smile that lights up a television screen from here to bangor, maine. >> and that there is magic johnson, this urban kid from michigan and larry bird, this guy who worked carrying trash. one plays for the lakers. the other plays for the boston celtics. its a great story. >> lakers had several chances. heres larry bird. >> magic johnson leads the attack. >> look at that pass. o...

>> what tennis really wants is to get its two best players playing over and over again in the fina whether they are john mcenroe and bjorn borg or chrissy and navratilova. thats what we want to turn in over and over. >> three match points to martina navratilova. >> this man has a smile that lights up a television screen from here to bangor, maine. >> and that there is magic johnson, this urban kid from michigan and larry bird, this guy who worked carrying trash. one plays for the lakers. the oth...

Emotion away. >> what tennis really wants is to get its two best players playing over and over again in the final. whether they are john mcenroe and bjorn borg or chrissy and navratilova. thats what we want to turn in over and over. >> three match points to martina navratilova. >> this man has a smile that lights up a television screen from here to bangor, maine. >> and that there is magic johnson, this urban kid from michigan and larry bird, this guy who worked carrying trash. one plays for the...

Emotion away. >> what tennis really wants is to get its two best players playing over and over again in the final. whether they are john mcenroe and bjorn borg or chrissy and navratilova. thats what we want to turn in over and over. >> three match points to martina navratilova. >> this man has a smile that lights up a television screen from here to bangor, maine. >> and that there is magic johnson, this urban kid from michigan and larry bird, this guy who worked carrying trash. one plays for the...

>> what tennis really wants is to get its two best players playing over and over again in the final. whether they are john mcenroe and bjorn borg or chrissy and navratilova. thats what we want to turn in over and over. >> three match points to martina navratilova. >> this man has a smile that lights up a television screen from here to bangor, maine. >> and that there is magic johnson, this urban kid from michigan and larry bird, this guy who worked carrying trash. one plays for the lakers. the o...

We wanted over and over again. >> three match points to martina nvratilova. >> this man has a smile that lights up the television screen from here to maine. >> there is "magic" johnson, this urban kid from michigan, and larry byrd, this guy who worked carrying trash. one plays for los angeles laker, the others for the boston celtics. it is a great story. >> "magic" johnson leads the attack. >> oh, what a show. >> when those championship games are in prime time and people are paying attention to ...

Before, back in 2007. had really struggled to make an impact against venus williams. she certainly wasnt going to let this opportunity slip. this time around. and she burst into action on center court. taking the first set six games to one. really even before lisicki had managed to realize that she was here in her first grand slam final at just 23 years of age. you have to give her a little bit of credit, though, she was 6-1, 5-1 down facing match points and through her tears on court she manage...

Match. theyre one of the best teams in the world. it was a really tough start, _ in the world. it was a really tough start, but— in the world. it was a really tough start, but we felt ready for it, we felt confident. weve been practising well together before, and ust practising well together before, and just realty— practising well together before, and just really happy how we played. yeah, _ just really happy how we played. yeah, extremely tough match. i was a bit nervous _ yeah, extremely ...

Your local newscast. there just hadnt been enough. give us a whole network of sports. >> theres just one place you need to go for all the names and games making sports news. espn "sportscenter." >> what happened in the 1980s is sports becomes a tv show. and what are tv shows built around? characters. >> you cant be serious, man. you cannot be serious! you got the absolute -- >> mcenroe, the perfect villain. the new yorker that people loved to hate. the cool swede never giving any emotion away. >...