Bud's 2006 Davis Cup Diary - Day 3 - September 24 , 2006
MONSTER SET SCUTTLES RODDICK, YANKS IN TURSUNOV'S SURPRISE

When a couple of guys hammer away at each with clubs through 70 rounds - make that games - and are still dead even, what can they do? Call it a draw?

Not in tennis. They play two more games, and hope somebody will give way. But they'd been doing that for the last 75 minutes, and neither Andy Roddick or - who he? - Dmitry Tursunov could knock out the other.

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Bud's 2006 Davis Cup Diary - Day 2 - September 23 , 2006
Day 2

Still breathing. Raspy and irregularly. But the tennis coroner hasn't signed off on the US Davis Cup team. Yet.

Hook up those rambunctious respirators - twins Bob and Mike Bryan - in the sick room, and you can detect a dim spark of life.

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Bud's 2006 Davis Cup Diary - Day 1 - September 22 , 2006
DAY 1

You didn't need Boris Sobkin, a distinguished Russian mathematician, to explain that Safin plus Youzhny equals 2-0 in Russia. But Sobkin was justifiably pleased nonetheless to have had a hand in the formula that spread gloom through a band of American tourists known as the US Davis Cup team.

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Bud's 2006 Davis Cup Diary - Preview - September 21 , 2006
PREVIEW

The man from nowhere appears to be of no help to his side, which may be a huge break for the invading Americans as they try to cope with a no-fun trap within an aged barn called Olympiisky Sports Complex.

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Bud's 2006 Davis Cup Diary - Introduction - September 20 , 2006
IT’S DAVIS CUP TIME AGAIN: U.S.- RUSSIA, ARGENTINA-AUSTRALIA, BUT IS ANYBODY PAYING ATTENTION?

Much as I’m intrigued by Davis Cup, which originated in my town, Boston, in the year 1900, I have to recognize that the competition needs fixing.

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