August 2007 - BUD JOINS ESPN
August, 2007
A member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame since 1994, Collins, known for his colorful wardrobe and unique nicknames for players, will contribute to ESPN2's coverage of Grand Slam events -- the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon -- beginning in 2008.>>>
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LAMAR HUNT 1932-2006
December, 2006
Tournament tennis had been around a long time - 90 years - before Lamar Hunt looked in on the game, and started writing checks.>>>
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NED WELD 1937-2006
November, 2006
Jam-packed with about 200 uproarious witnesses, Longwood Cricket Club's veranda shook with partisan fervor as a couple of local youths on the court below - Harvardians Ned Weld of Weston and Paul Sullivan of Belmont - battled a pair of Mexican Davis Cuppers in the US Doubles Championships.>>>
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FEMALE TOUCHDOWN - VISSER IN HALL OF FAME
2006
A dame in the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
Never happened before. >>>
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THROUGH THE YEARS -- COMBATANTS, PALS, THE RARE RIVALRY OF ROD AND KEN
2006
Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall >>>
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ROSCOE TANNER
January 23,
2006
Roscoe Tanner in Jail... >>>
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FEDERATION CUP 2005
December 15,
2005
Notes from the Federation Cup 2005 >>>
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DAVIS CUP 2005
December 12,
2005
Notes from the Davis Cup 2005 >>>
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AUSTRALIAN
TALES
February,
2004
A few of Bud's tales from his adventures at the Australian
Open >>>
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DECLINE
AND FALL – BUT MAGNIFICENTLY
Monday,
November 8, 2004
They have no choice. They’re on the way out. But
before they fall, the leaves of fall resist nature and
gravity brilliantly, putting on a show to make even Boston’s
Museum of Fine Arts jealous. >>>
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HELLO
AGAIN – WE JUST MET A GIRL NAMED MARIA
Thursday,
August 12, 2004
Where was I? Oh yes, somewhere around Wimbledon when we
last communicated.
My roommate, the fair Aurelio, gently, but firmly, says
it’s time to get back in web-step. Like a duck?
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LIFE
AND TIMES OF THE TIE-BREAKER
Friday,
March 19 2004
Hell hath no fury like a guy whose cocktail hour is scorned.
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SERENA SIGHTING – OR AT LEAST A HEARING
Tuesday,
March 17, 2004
Where has she gone and when’s she coming back? It
was supposed to be eight weeks, but the absence of Serena
Williams from the world that she ruled has stretched to
eight months. >>>
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Ed
Hickey, Who Helped Rescue Pro Tennis
Sunday,
February 15, 2004
What wouldn’t you do for your child?
That was the motivation for Ed Hickey, a benefactor not
only for his daughter, Julie, but, as it turned out, for
innumerable sports followers in this province and the
athletes in a game that was almost out of business: professional
tennis. >>>
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Bud
Collins on Billie Jean King
Friday, November 14, 2003
Rosie Casals used to call her "Old Lady." That
was 35 years ago. Billie Jean King was 25, and seemed
ancient to her doubles partner, 18-year-old Rosie. >>>
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Bud
Collins on the 50th Anniversary of the Tennis Hall of
Fame
Monday, November 3, 2003
An English scribbler named Shakespeare put some famous
last words on the tongue of King Richard III, down on
his luck and without transportation in 1485 at the Battle
of Bosworth Field: "A horse! A horse!
My kingdom for a horse!" >>>
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History
of New England Tennis
Wednesday, October 8, 2003
Was there a father of American tennis -- or a mother?
Sporting paternity or maternity? Does anybody care?
The man whose own Bostonian father had the best claim
to paternity certainly didn't.
"Whether my father or Mary Outerbridge introduced
tennis to the United States in 1874 doesn't matter,"
Dr. Richard Dwight mused before his death at 95 five years
ago. "Nobody knows for sure. But the
main thing is that somebody did -- in several locations
-- and this wonderful game caught on almost immediately."
Amen. >>>
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Bud
Collins on Althea Gibson
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
She was thunder and lightning.
In style, historic impact - and even meteorogically speaking
on the day Althea Gibson began to blaze her way to recognition
in a big league that she would, in time, dominate.
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Bud Collins on Gladys Heldman
Wednesday, June 25, 2003
Her zest for tennis, and life, was boundless. But after
serving as a major international factor, first as an influential
voice, then as orchestrator of the revolution in the women's
game, Gladys Medalie Heldman felt it was time to tend
to her own strokes, with a racket and gardening trowel.
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