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Danville Advocate-Messenger sports editor Larry Vaught named Tom Hammond Sports Media Award winner by Bluegrass Sports Commission
gmoyers@schurz.comLong-time Advocate-Messenger sports editor Larry Vaught has been named the 2013 Tom Hammond Kentucky Sports Media Award winner by the Bluegrass Sports Commission. Vaught, sports editor at The Advocate since 1996 after working under his father, the...Tags: Entertainment Events, World War II (1939-1945), National Collegiate Athletic Association, Basketball, Wimbledon Championships
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Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams seeded No. 1 at Wimbledon
Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams will be the top men's and women's seeds at Wimbledon, which begins Monday. The main surprise in the seedings, which were announced Wednesday, was that 12-time Grand Slam title winner Rafael Nadal was No. 5, primarily...
Tags: Wimbledon Championships, Roger Federer, BBC, John Isner, Andy Murray
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Venus Williams, 5-time Wimbledon champ, is out with an injury
Venus Williams will not win her sixth Wimbledon singles title this year. The 33-year-old announced Tuesday via Facebook that a back injury will prevent her from taking part in this year's event, which is scheduled to start Monday. “...
Tags: Wimbledon Championships, Venus Williams, Tennis
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One-man rebellion: Sonny Vaccaro takes on the NCAA
Sonny Vaccaro can get lost in his words, the stories tumbling clumsily from one into the next, and if you aren't careful, the conversation can really end up in the desert. But when he's on point, when he knows exactly what needs to be explained, his...Tags: Laws, University of California, Los Angeles, National Basketball Association, Financial Aid, Justice System
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Roger Federer ends victory drought
Roger Federer found the perfect place to end his title drought — a small town in western Germany that has a big tennis stadium and a street named Roger-Federer-Allee leading to it. Federer left Halle a winner again Sunday, ending a 10-month run of...
Tags: Wimbledon Championships, Marin Cilic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Daniela Hantuchova
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PASSINGS: Gene Mako, Thomas Penfield Jackson
Gene Mako Champion tennis player in 1930s Gene Mako, 97, a champion tennis player who paired with the legendary Don Budge to win four doubles titles at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the 1930s, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los...Tags: Judges, Justice System, U.S. Open (tennis), Companies and Corporations, Forest Hills
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Gene Mako, doubles champion in tennis with Don Budge, dies at 97
Gene Mako, a champion tennis player who paired with the legendary Don Budge to win four doubles titles at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the 1930s, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his wife, Laura. He was 97 and had...
Tags: Wimbledon Championships, U.S. Open (tennis), Steffi Graf, Forest Hills, Rod Laver
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Alexander Ovechkin wins Hart Trophy
Alexander Ovechkin has won his third Hart Trophy, given to the NHL's most valuable player. The Washington Capitals right wing beat out Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby and John Tavares of the New York Islanders for the award on Saturday night. Ovechkin also...
Tags: Marin Cilic, Ice Hockey, John Tavares, Andy Murray, Richard Gasquet
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'The Daily Show' mocks gay marriage opponents around the globe
Given the rapidly evolving status of gay rights here in the U.S, where the Boy Scouts of America recently lifted a ban on gay youths and the Supreme Court prepares to rule on two same-sex marriage cases, John Oliver decided it was time to check up on the...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Vatican City, France, Benedict XVI, Lobbying
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Roger Federer gets a 6-0, 6-0 win in Germany
Roger Federer cruised past Mischa Zverev, 6-0, 6-0, to reach the Gerry Weber Open semifinals on Friday at Halle, Germany, recording his second career double bagel and teaching a painful lesson to a player trying to serve and volley on grass. Richard...Tags: Philipp Kohlschreiber, Marin Cilic, Belmont Stakes, Ice Hockey, Andrea Petkovic
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Serena Williams wins French Open, her 16th Grand Slam event title
— Sweet 16 for Serena Williams came courtesy of yet another ace, an exclamation point drilled into the red clay on the last point of the match. The sizzling serve sealed her 16th Grand Slam title and her place, at age 31, at the pinnacle of women'...Tags: Serena Williams, David Ferrer, Steffi Graf, Human Interest, Maria Sharapova
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Scoreboard -- June 8, 2013
|TV SPORTS| |SUNDAY| Tennis--French Open, men’s championship match, 8 a.m. (NBC) Auto Racing--NASCAR Sprint Cup, Party in the Poconos 400, Noon (TNT); Formula One, Canadian Grand Prix, 1 p.m. (NBC) College Baseball--NCAA Division I Playoffs,...Tags: Financial Aid, Kevin Harvick, John Carlson (ice hockey), Joey Coulter, ESPN2 (tv network)
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