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utorak, 12.07.2011.

Murray homes in on precious win

GLASGOW: Andy Murray bounced back from his Wimbledon disappointment to help Great Britain grab a share of the spoils in the opening singles of their Davis Cup clash with Luxembourg.
World No.4 Murray, beaten in the semi-finals at Wimbledon by Rafael Nadal a week ago, barely broke sweat as he crushed lowly ranked Laurent Bram 6-0, 6-0, 6-0 to level the match at 1-1.
Bram, a 27-year-old club professional, does not have a current world ranking, weighing in at 996th in his most recent appearance in 2006.
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But Murray showed no mercy to his hopelessly outclassed opponent, wrapping up a rare triple bagel win in only 52 minutes to square the tie after James Ward had lost to Gilles Muller in the opening rubber.
''It was good fun, it's nice to be back in Scotland. I've not been back for about 18 months and I need to make more of a habit of it. The support I've had here has been so nice,'' Murray said.
O In Buenos Aires, Argentina reached the Davis Cup semi-finals after Juan Ignacio Chela and Eduardo Schwank won their doubles rubber to establish a winning 3-0 lead over Kazakhstan.
Chela and Schwank raced past Yuriy Schukin and Evgeny Korolev 6-3 6-2 7-5 to put the encounter to bed and set up a September meeting with either holders Serbia or Sweden, who were facing off in Halmstad.
After racing though the opening two sets the Argentinians, clad in the sky blue and white of their football team, who are hosting the Copa America, broke for a decisive 6-5 lead in the third before Schwank finished the job on his fourth match point.
Former US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro and Juan Monaco had set up the win on Thursday in easily winning their opening singles against Mikhail Kukushkin and Andrey Golubev.
The Kazakhs, made up of naturalised Russian players, had caused a shock by dumping out the Czech Republic in the previous round but at the Parque Roca they were blown away by an Argentine side who looked determined to break their tournament duck.
O In Bern, Roger Federer overcame early problems to beat Portugal's Rui Machado and guide Switzerland to a 2-0 lead on Friday.
Federer's service was broken twice in the opening set by the 93rd-ranked Machado before he recovered to win 5-7 6-3 6-4 6-2 in the Group I second-round match.
It was Federer's first match since losing in the Wimbledon quarter-finals to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga last week.
Earlier on Friday, Federer's Olympics gold medal-winning doubles partner Stanislas Wawrinka beat Frederico Gil 7-5 6-3 6-4.
Federer and Wawrinka are scheduled to face Gil and Leonardo Tavares in Saturday's doubles rubber. The contest is being played on indoor hard courts.
The winning nation advances to a play-off in September to join the 16-nation world group.
O In Sweden, holders Serbia shrugged off the injury-enforced absence of Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic to take a 2-0 lead over Sweden in their Davis Cup quarter-final on Friday.
Viktor Troicki beat Michael Ryderstedt 6-3 6-1 6-7 (6-8) 7-5 in the first singles rubber, just hours after new world No.1 Djokovic pulled out of his rubber against Ervin Eleskovic citing a knee injury.
World No.29 Janko Tipsarevic stepped in and enjoyed a comfortable match when debutant Eleskovic, the world 355, retired with a knee injury after the Serb had established a 6-2 1-0 lead in just 44 minutes.
''I want to say at the start that it's a terrible way to win. I am really sorry for Ervin,'' Tipsarevic said. ''I am happy to give my country a point but I didn't want to win like this.''

utorak, 05.07.2011.

Bucs’ Rookie Bowers Says His Knee is Ready to Go

One of the biggest stories during NFL Draft weekend was Da’Quan Bowers and how a once top-5 prospect fell into the second round of the NFL draft to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Owners and teams stayed away from the nation’s leading sack leader due to a knee injury. Since draft day, Bowers has been fairly quiet but he recently spoke with “The Commish” Justin Pawlowski about his knee.

“My knee is great,” Bowers started with. “It’s back to where I needed it to be. It’s back to playing shape. I’ve been rehabbing and working out all throughout the whole summer. The knee is fine. I’m running, jumping, and cutting. Everything’s a full go.”
Some worried that Bowers’ knee would cause problems for him throughout his NFL career. Bowers denied those rumors and said that he expects to have a long NFL career.

“Dr. Andrews has seen much worse knees than mine go on to have great NFL careers.”
Bowers was absent from both the Josh Freeman-lead mini-camp and the rookie symposium this past week. He was asked about his absence and responded with this.

“I didn’t want to miss any rehab time or anything that would slow me down from being where I needed to be come camp time.”
So everything sounds positive for the Bucs second round draft pick from Clemson. If it works out, then it looks like the Bucs have a steal in the second round.

petak, 01.07.2011.

Senate to scrap July 4 recess to work on debt-limit deal

After being taken to task by the president for keeping a low-key schedule, the Senate has canceled its planned Fourth of July break next week in order to attempt to make progress on deficit reduction talks.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the announcement Thursday morning, saying senators would be expected back in Washington for an afternoon vote on Tuesday.

“We’ll do that because we have work to do,” Reid said in floor remarks. “There's still much to do to put Americans back to work, to cut our deficit and get our economy back to work. It is really important that we do this.”

The Senate was scheduled to be out of session next week. The House is off this week and due to return for votes on Wednesday.

President Obama unloaded on Congress at a press conference Wednesday, specifically citing the frequent breaks for what used to be called recess. Leaders now call the time out of Washington “constituent work periods.”

“They’re in one week. They’re out one week. And then they’re saying Obama’s got to step in-- you need to be here, I’ve been here, I’ve been doing Afghanistan, Bin Laden, and the Greek crisis. You stay here. Let’s get it done,” Obama said.

The administration has said lawmakers need to vote to raise the debt ceiling before Aug. 2 to avoid default on the country’s financial obligations. Talks to craft a deficit reduction plan before the date appear to have stalled.

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