Tennis / French Open Quiz: 1) How many of the top ten men’s seeds can you name? 2) How many of the top five women’s seeds can you come up with? Answers below.
Floyd Landis…dirtball
“Nearly four years after he began waging a costly, draining and ultimately losing battle to discredit his positive test for synthetic testosterone at the 2006 Tour de France, Floyd Landis told ESPN.com on Wednesday that he used performance-enhancing drugs for most of his career as a professional road cyclist, including for the race whose title he briefly held.”
Not that this was a great surprise to anyone. We’ve known all along that Landis was lying after the examination into his superhuman leg of the 2006 Tour de France that led to his victory. But in his extensive interview with ESPN, he “confirmed he sent e-mails to cycling and anti-doping officials over the past few weeks, implicating dozens of other athletes, team management and owners and officials of the sport’s national and international governing bodies.”
His life in tatters, including the loss of his savings and his marriage, Landis told ESPN that “he knows his credibility is in tatters and that many people will choose not to believe him now. He added he has no documentation for many of the claims he is making about other riders or officials, and that it will be his word against theirs.”
But he decided to come forward, and bring everyone else down, because he is “suffering psychologically and emotionally” from all the years of deceit.
“I want to clear my conscience. I don’t want to be part of the problem anymore.”
This is just a bad, bad guy. He’s also incredibly stupid, seeing as how his losing legal battle cost him $2 million.
But as to the e-mails, the Wall Street Journal first gained access and verified that Landis accuses seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong of doping, which of course has long been alleged, and denied by Armstrong.
“The e-mails are particularly focused on American riders. Mr. Landis said in them that during his career, he and other American riders learned how to conduct blood transfusions, take the synthetic blood booster EPO, and use steroids. Mr. Landis said he started using testosterone patches, then progressed to blood transfusions, EPO, and a liquid steroid taken orally.”
Landis says Armstrong’s longtime coach, Johan Bruyneel, introduced Landis to the use of steroid patches, blood doping and HGH in 2002 and 2003. Landis alleges Armstrong “helped him understand the way the drugs worked,” as reported by the Journal.
Needless to say the World Anti-Doping Agency is interested in Landis’ claims.
“So here’s my question: do the unfortunate saps who shelled out $25 for Floyd Landis’ book a few years back, which was basically 300 pages of lies, qualify for an Amazon.com refund?”
As for Armstrong, he issued yet another denial before crashing at the Tour of California.
“There was a day in the Alps in 2004 when Lance Armstrong urged Floyd Landis to win that Tour de France stage as a reward for hard riding in the mountains.
“It was a nice gesture from a leader to a teammate – and, Armstrong knew Landis had financial trouble and could use the prize money.
“But Landis could not escape two German riders, so Armstrong took a deep breath and put all three of them away. His bold posture said, Jeez, I gotta do everything myself.
“This time Armstrong is going to have a hard time blasting away from his little buddy….
“Floyd Landis has sung, claiming Armstrong cheated during his regime as seven-time champion in the Tour de France from 1999 through 2005.
“Of course, Landis is already a certified cheat, who recently admitted that he did indeed use drugs in 2006. That was the year he won the Tour – for four days, until the lab reports came back. At the time he said he had no idea why such elevated tests were happening, but now Landis has admitted that he did cheat and that he also witnessed Armstrong and the United States Postal Service team cheating….
“This is one of those rare times that a prominent cyclist has openly incriminated an entire team and by consequence the culture of professional cycling. Past cyclists have died on their bikes, like Tom Simpson in 1967; or in sanitariums, like Jose Maria in 2003; or in hotel rooms, like Marco Pantani in 2004; or have confessed to individual sins, like David Millar and others. But Landis, who was an important support rider for Armstrong, is now saying the greatest team in modern cycling systematically doped….
“These accusations by Landis follow past charges by Greg LeMond, the three-time Tour champion, who said that he watched Armstrong barrel up Alpine hills and knew he was doping….
“No matter where it goes from here, I don’t think Lance Armstrong can break away from this one.”
Places to See
ESPN The Magazine has a story in the current issue on “33 shrines that every sports fan must visit” and guess what No. 1 is? Why I’ve been there twice in just the last two years…
Pre’s Rock! Yes, the spot where Steve Prefontaine crashed in Eugene, Oregon, back in 1975.
2. Santa Anita Park…home to Seabiscuit and horseracing heaven
3. Calaveras County Fair Grounds for the frog jumping competition
4. The Pinball Hall of Fame, Las Vegas
5. The Bobsled Track at Utah Olympic Park…where you can take a ride down at 70 mph
6. Mountain View Cemetery, Butte, Montana…final resting place of Evel Knievel. Now this one I have to get to.
8. ProRodeo Hall of Fame & Museum of the American Cowboy, Colorado Springs…been to this one
9. International Bowling Museum and HOF, Arlington, Texas…huh, wonder if Ray Bluth is there?
[Some of the sites are stupid and purposefully being left out by your editor]
14. Field of Dreams, Dyersville, Iowa…get there quick now that the property is for sale
15. Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Kansas City, Mo. …been here but never actually went through all the exhibits…my bad.
18. The Walter Payton Museum, Aurora, Ill. …didn’t know this existed
20. Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum, Indianapolis…this one is outstanding, and take the ride around the track for a true sense of its scope
21. Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory…gotta get to this one.
22. Paul W. Bryant Museum, Tuscaloosa, Ala. ….ditto
23. Pro Football Hall of Fame, Canton, Ohio…believe it or not, haven’t been here
25. Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum, Greenville, S.C….another must see for your editor
26. Arlington National Cemetery…to see where Joe Louis is buried…done this many times.
27. Yogi Berra Museum, Little Falls, N.J. …folks, I’m tellin’ ya…this one is outstanding. Have to get back though it’s undergoing a big renovation.
28. Jim Thorpe, Pa. …Yes, an entire town devoted to him, even though he had few actual ties to Eastern Pennsylvania. Johnny Mac, we’ll definitely do it this fall.
29. National Baseball HOF, Cooperstown, N.Y. …should be No. 1
30. Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, N.Y. …Babe Ruth buried here. Can’t believe I’ve missed this one.
31. Herb Brooks Arena, Lake Placid, N.Y. “Bring your skates (or rent some) and reenact the Miracle on Ice. Or simply sit in the stands and ponder how the 100,000 people who claim to have been at the U.S. team’s 1980 Olympic hockey upset could’ve fit into this 7,700-seat arena.”
32. Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield, Mass. …haven’t been here either
–In the NBA playoffs, surprising Boston is whipping Orlando like a rented mule, 3-0, while the Lakers are up 2-1 on Phoenix, the Suns having defeated L.A. Sunday night.
–In the NHL, the Flyers have a 3-1 advantage over the Canadiens, with the winner advancing to play the Blackhawks, who swept San Jose, 4-0. For Chicago it’s their first Stanley Cup Finals appearance since 1992.
Ball Bits:
–Sporting News’ annual ranking of baseball’s best players, as determined by 125 experts, including 18 Hall of Famers.
1. Albert Pujols…second straight year
2. Joe Mauer
3. A-Rod…choked Sunday night…heh heh
4. Derek Jeter
5. Tim Lincecum
6. Roy Halladay
7. Hanley Ramirez
8. Ichiro
9. Chase Utley
10. Ryan Howard
Well, I’m not going to bitch about this list. I mean Jeter isn’t really No. 4, but on the other hand, he’s a winner…period…and that’s the bottom line in sports, isn’t it?
11. Mariano Rivera
12. Felix Hernandez…not yet
13. CC Sabathia…no way…sucked Sunday, too
14. Evan Longoria
15. Zack Greinke…enlightened pick given the hard-luck he normally pitches in (except Sun.)
16. Mark Teixeira
17. Miguel Cabrera…should’ve been suspended for a year after his disgraceful performance the final weekend of the season last year for the Tigers.
18. Dustin Pedroia
19. Justin Verlander
20. Chris Carpenter
23. Justin Morneau…off to a phenomenal start (.383). Harmon Killebrew said, “The sky’s the limit for Justin if he stays healthy and continues to produce. He’s one of those guys that’s not only a great player, he’s a great individual as well.” How lucky is Minnesota to have both Morneau and Mauer?!
35. Josh Johnson…should be much higher
49. Jayson Werth…ditto
“Hall of Famers Andre Dawson and Tony Perez took (Ramirez) aside on Tuesday and let him know he needed to apologize and atone for failing to hustle and showing up his manager, according to the Palm Beach Post.
“Dawson and Perez, who are both special assistants to Marlins team president David Samson, talked to Ramirez for 15 minutes…before Tuesday’s game.”
This goes back to Ramirez being benched for failing to hustle after a kicked ball, allowing two runs to score, for which manager Fredi Gonzalez removed him. Ramirez then ripped his manager, in one of the more idiotic moves of recent memory.
Dawson told the Post he started his lesson with Ramirez this way, with Perez at his side: “ ‘I’m not going to say a lot, because if you say the wrong the thing to me, then you might wind up on the floor on your rear end.’”
“ ‘You really have stepped across the line,’ Dawson said he told Hanley. ‘You owe that manager a sincere apology. And if you think your teammates have your back with this, you’ve got another thing coming because the mind-set, and this is from me to you, the mind-set is these guys are laughing at you.’”
Ramirez apologized the next day. Understand, the penny-pinching Marlins had just extended his contract for six years and $70 million.
–Meanwhile, Washington Nationals hurler Stephen Strasburg continues to shine in AAA, going another 6+ scoreless on Wednesday night, so the 21-year-old phenom hasn’t allowed a run in 18 1/3 innings of AAA action. Two more starts and he’ll be promoted to the big show.
–Funny bit in the New York Post on Alex Rodriguez and his women…as in with whom did he perform the best, err, in terms of home run ratio? The winner? Stripper Joslyn Morse, who A-Rod poked around with from March 1, 2007 – May 29, 2007. One homer every 11.7 at-bats. With Madonna, A-Rod’s ratio was just 16.5, Kate Hudson, 17.8, and now Cameron Diaz, only one homer in every 32 ABs.
So Yankees fans should be clamoring for A-Rod to dump Cameron and get back to the stripper.
–We note the passing of former major league pitcher Jose Lima, who died of an apparent heart attack at the age of 37. Lima had an 89-102 lifetime mark, including a 21-10 season in 1999 with Houston. He also had a reputation for being the life of a party and was a popular teammate.
–There is a chance that interest in NBA basketball may return to New York next season, assuming the New York Knicks are able to nab LeBron James, a huge assumption, I grant you, but also because of the Nets’ new owner, Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who took the New York media by storm this week in his first trip since being confirmed by his fellow owners. While he wasn’t able to nail down the first pick in the upcoming draft, losing the John Wall lottery to Washington and getting No. 3 instead (DeMarcus Cousins?), asked if he had a message in his first days as owner, Prokhorov said: “America, I come in peace.” His other goal? “We are going to turn Knicks fans into Nets fans.”
Having seen some of his assistants back in Moscow, one can also expect that the Nets dancers will be top shelf.
[Speaking of LeBron, the Cavs fired coach Mike Brown.]
–The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Tiger Woods is in deep trouble when it comes to the divorce proceedings between himself and Elin; as in she is demanding $750 million…and there is a chance he could say yes, as long as she in turn agrees to total silence about their marriage. But Elin is balking at a lifetime “confidentiality clause” that would bar her from writing a book, doing interviews, etc. She is also reportedly asking for full custody of their kids. The two no longer talk to each other.
–A13-year-old American boy, Jordan Romero (no relation to Cesar) became the youngest climber to reach the top of Mount Everest on Saturday. The former record was held by a 16-year-old Nepal lad. Jordan hails from Big Bear, California.
Jordan’s mother told the AP she was “very proud of him” as she watched his progress on a live GPS tracker online.
Yet Jordan was climbing “with his father, his father’s girlfriend and three Sherpa guides.”
Hmmm. Seems a little complicated to me.
–Speaking of kids, 16-year-old Jordan Spieth became the sixth-youngest golfer to ever make a PGA Tour cut at the Byron Nelson this weekend, the record being held by Bob Panasik, 15 years, 8 months, at the 1957 Canadian Open. Tadd Fujikawa is next at 16 years, 4 days, in the 2007 Sony Open. Spieth, a junior in high school, did great, finishing in a tie for 16th, as 22-year-old Aussie, Jason Day, won his first Tour event.
–Yikes. Denmark’s Soren Hansen, a European Ryder Cup player, was found guilty of tax evasion and fined $11 million. He claimed to have been living in Monaco from 2002 to 2006, but the court ruled against him.
—Chi Chi Rodriguez and his wife were robbed at gunpoint last week by four men who broke into their Puerto Rico home, bound the couple and fled with an estimated $500,000 in cash and jewelry. The men were in the home for 45 minutes, having bound a security guard as well. Chi Chi said the robbers were gentle with his wife but still took the wedding ring from her finger.
–Update since my last chat. The Washington Redskins’ Santana Moss was identified as one of the NFL players that Toronto doctor Anthony Galea treated.
—Helio Castroneves tied a record with his 4th Indy 500 pole, tying A.J. Foyt and Rex Mays, as he topped 228 mph on two of his four laps during Saturday’s qualifying.
But the bigger story was Danica Patrick, who qualified way back in 23rd and will start behind two other women, Brazil’s Ana Beatriz and Switzerland’s Simona de Silvestro.
What made it an even worse day for Patrick, though, was that she criticized her team for the qualifying setup during an interview on the public address system and then was booed by the crowd.
“Shoot, I say one confident thing out there and everybody boos me. I’m blown away,” she said, Patrick never having started worse than 10th in her previous Indy starts. “These people, I mean, I don’t know, maybe they all booed me before. I would think that some of them cheered for me before, and I’m not a different driver than I was five years ago.”
Ah, Danica? A little advice. Try a simple apology next time. Never get on race fans like that. They don’t forget.
–In the NCAA Men’s lacrosse tournament, the final four is:
[Virginia’s women’s team, which went through that recent tragedy, lost in their quarterfinals to North Carolina.]
Speaking of lacrosse, my high school alma mater, Summit (N.J.) is two wins shy of tying the state record for consecutive wins, now 42, as it guns for its second straight overall state championship. And my high school was undefeated in football last fall, in winning a sectional title. And our baseball team is having a resurgence and working its way through the states. And the boys track team on Saturday won its first sectional title ever as our superstar junior, Mark Jones, captured four events…high jump, long jump, triple jump (only the second time he tried the event) and the 110 hurdles. Jones is the fellow who has the second-best high jump in the country this year, 6’10”. Pretty cool. I’m thinking if he doesn’t just focus on the high jump for the 2016 Olympics, he’s gearing up to be a helluva decathlete.
—Parade featured Homer Simpson’s “6 Best Grilling Tips” as the season gets underway.
1) To make grilled food taste terrific, my secret ingredient is beer: Add 72 ounces to stomach, then cook. I also find that a half pound of meat really wakes up a veggie burger. [Ed. the economic environment still calls for ‘domestic’ over ‘premium.’]
2) To keep the bugs from biting, I move everything indoors and barbecue in the house. It also makes the kids nice and sleepy. [Ed. now that I’m in a place without a patio or balcony, I’ve had to revert to barbecuing indoors as well. Strangely, the entire building has gone eerily quiet since I started doing so.]
3) I keep kabob skewers handy for unwanted guests, like my annoying neighbor Ned Flanders.
4) Grill up some vegetables for the vegetarians in your life, like my daughter, Lisa. It’s easy. But remember, no matter how you do it, veggies taste bad.
5) Give your backyard get-together a theme. The guests will love it. My favorites have been the “Quadruple Bypass Anniversary Party” and “The Great Flanders Smoke-Out.”
–Speaking of Parade, they had a little blurb with baseball great Tom Seaver.
Seaver: In 1970, the year after we won the World Series, my wife and I rented a motor home, and the first place we went was Cooperstown. I wanted to show her pitching great Walter Johnson’s plaque, from the Hall of Fame’s first class.
Ah, those were simpler times, weren’t they? One of the top players in the game back then, having just won a ring and Cy Young Award, the toast of New York, and he’s renting a motor home.
–Cool story out of Frombork, Poland, via Vanessa Gera of the AP.
“Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose findings were condemned by the Roman Catholic Church as heretical, was reburied by Polish priests as a hero yesterday (Saturday), nearly 500 years after he was laid to rest in an unmarked grave….
“Copernicus, who lived from 1473 to 1543, died as a little known astronomer working in what is now Poland, far from Europe’s centers of learning.”
Copernicus of course was the man who came up with the theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun, which to say the least went against Church doctrine back in the day.
But after his death, because of his ties to the cathedral where he served as a church canon, his remains were buried there but in an unmarked grave.
So Saturday his remains were blessed by some of the highest-ranking clerics “before an honor guard ceremoniously carried the coffin through the imposing red brick cathedral and lowered it back into the same spot where part of his skull and other bones were found in 2005 [verified through DNA testing…which matched hairs of his found in one of his books].
“A black granite tombstone now identifies him as the founder of the heliocentric theory…The tombstone is decorated with a model of the solar system, a golden sun encircled by six of the planets.”
Kind of makes you want to go to Frombork, Poland, doesn’t it?
–The Bronx Zoo had a contest for Daily News readers to pick the names of three new lion cubs and they came up with Adamma, “beautiful girl” in Swahili; Nala, “gift” in Igbo; and Shani, “wonderful” in Swahili.
Good gawd…these are awful. Now when I was a kid, my dog was named Ralph, after baseball great and Mets broadcaster Ralph Kiner, and once I had two of those green turtles we later learned carried disease and I named them Ron and Bud, after Mets ballplayers Bud Harrelson and Ron Swoboda.
Talk about simpler times, I remember pedaling my Stingray bike downtown to Woolworth’s, buying the two turtles, which were placed in a box, and then I rode home with the box in one hand while controlling the handlebar with the other. I then placed them in the aquarium and the next morning discovered that somehow Ron had eaten Bud, or was it Bud had taken out Ron… Anyway, pretty horrifying scene, frankly, but I digress….
–The Star-Ledger had a front page article on the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, a species native to Asia that has settled in New Jersey. I kind of got a kick out of it because in my old home, in the spring and fall, in particular, I would catch about one a day. Yup, one a day. It’s not like my place was a dump, you understand, but these nickel-sized grotesque looking things settled in the eaves in the fall, lay largely dormant in the winter, and then in the spring really made themselves at home.
First discovered in Allentown, Pa., in 1996 (no one seems to know how they made it there), the stink bugs have invaded New Jersey, crossing the Delaware a la George Washington, though less dramatically, and in the other direction. At least they are easy to pick off as they mope around. And in case you’re wondering, no, I was never woken up in the middle of the night with one crawling on my face…but it was coming to that! Alas, thus far in my new joint, no stink bugs.
–So I subscribe to the High Plains Journal, a publication for farmers, as my way of sort of staying in touch with the sector and I present the following only as a reminder that while you can’t live your life walking on pins and needles, somehow in the back of your mind you have to think about risks and what can go wrong. Other times it’s just a matter of bad luck and fate.
“A rural Goddard (Ks.) man died when a tractor he was using pinned him against a tree.”
The 63-year-old died “when he was using the tractor to pull a large tree from its rots. The sheriff’s office says (the man) got off the tractor to fix a chain when the tractor reversed on its own, pinning him against the tree and killing him.”
Sadly, I see something like this in virtually every issue of HPJ.
“An East Texas man is in a West Texas jail after he was charged with stealing 420 head of cattle.
“Carl Wade Curry is charged with multiple counts in the thefts…near the Oklahoma border. A statement from the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association says the 43-year-old Athens man created a fraudulent identity for the alleged thefts.”
Now what struck me here is the size of the crime. You hear of cattle rustlers all the time, but 420?!
But here’s why I really brought it up. Do you have any idea what the punishment is for the scope of this act? I sure as heck didn’t. “Bond is set at $1.7 million. If convicted, he could face up to life in prison.”
Wow. Might as well hang him.
–Speaking of livestock, Andrew Jacobs of the New York Times reported:
“Mongolia and its 800,000 herders are reeling from the worst winter that anyone can remember. According to United Nations relief officials, nearly eight million cows, yaks, camels, horses, goats and sheep died, about 17% of the country’s livestock. Even if the spring rains arrive soon, 500,000 more animals are expected to succumb in the coming weeks.”
It’s a catastrophe for the economy, and we note with sadness the deaths of Bar Chat’s favorite animal, the mangy, yet highly nutritious and noble, yak.
“Roxana Shirazi engaged in some risky sex while hanging with rock’s raunchiest hair bands. But the unrepentant groupie is courting bigger danger with her memoir, “The Last Living Slut: born in Iran, Bred Backstage.”
“Shirazi says several editors and agents passed on her manuscript for fear of a fatwa…[though a HarperCollins imprint picked it up].
“ ‘I haven’t attacked Islam itself,’ she tells us. ‘But they probably don’t think I should be writing about doing sex during my Koran classes.’”
–Meanwhile, there is a new controversy surrounding Miss USA, Rima Fakih. It seems her family supposedly has ties to Hizbullah. And some of the outrage started when Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum and former neoconservative adviser to Rudy Giuliani, listed examples of Muslim women who had won western beauty contests. Pipes concluded:
“They are all attractive, but this surprising frequency of Muslims winning beauty pageants makes me suspect an odd form of affirmative action.”
Oh, pipe down, Pipes. As I stated before the Miss USA pageant, Lebanese women are the most beautiful in the world. Period. Get over it.
Then you had some right-wing blogger, Debbie Schlussel, brand Fakih “Miss Hizbullah,” suggesting she was a kind of Trojan horse aimed at improving the image of militant Shiites, according to Tony Allen-Mills in the London Times.
But now it’s on to the Miss Universe pageant in Vegas this summer, sports fans! You go, Rima!
–So the Today Show’s Matt Lauer is once again in the tabloids for supposedly straying. He is vigorously denying the latest allegation, a story that had him shacking up at the Vancouver Olympics with a young woman while his wife was home caring for the kids. The woman in question, however, is 26-year-old Alexis Houston, who hired Gloria Allred to throw a press conference to deny the rumor from her end as well. I just saw a picture of Ms. Houston, though. Kind of a hottie, guys.
–What a bummer if you were holding tickets to U2’s world tour. Bono underwent emergency surgery on his back after an accident during “tour preparation training” in Germany and was rushed to the hospital in Munich. It’s not known just how serious the situation is at this point. The band was due to tour the United States, Europe and Russia through the summer, but for now the group is saying canceled dates will be rescheduled.
Of course U2’s tour is no simple event. They were due to start rehearsals in Salt Lake City, the start of the U.S. segment, on Tuesday and they had 400 people converging there to set up the complicated, outrageous claw stage. We wish Bono the best.
—Megan Fox was dropped from the third Transformers’ film. I told you a few weeks ago she’s an alien and it would appear Paramount Pictures reached the same conclusion. Just too many issues when you deal with one of ‘em. Plus for an alien, you’d think she’d learn to keep a low-profile, but she has quite a reputation of being difficult on set.
–Lastly, Monday marks the end of 24. The Daily News had this preview of the final episode (which I may have to watch on tape).
“Monday night’s two-hour finale is a bloody mess. It’s that good, and yes, we expected no less….
“It’s vintage Jack, an equalizer whose raw fury we understand.
“ ‘I would have accepted justice by law,’ Jack says, in what could serve as a mission statement for the whole eight-season run of 24. ‘But that was taken from me. [So] I am judge and jury.’”
David Hinckley, the News’ great media critic, concludes:
“Jack never stops trying to make his corner a little better, however, and in the process, he closes out 24 the same way he ushered it in: as a fast-paced, first-rate action-adventure that pauses just long enough to show us a heart.”
One other observation, from the Daily News’ Mike Lupica.
“I guess all 24 junkies have now learned a valuable life lesson:
“If Jack asks you for the SIM card from your cellphone, just hand the sucker over.”
Top 3 songs for the week 5/21/66: #1 “Monday, Monday” (The Mama’s and The Papa’s) #2 “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” (Bob Dylan) #3 “Good Lovin’” (The Young Rascals)…and…#4 “When A Man Loves A Woman” (Percy Sledge) #5 “A Groovy Kind Of Love” (The Mindbenders) #6 “Kicks” (Paul Revere and The Raiders Featuring Mark Lindsay…that was their formal title then…and a great tune) #7 “How Does That Grab You, Darlin’?” (Nancy Sinatra) #8 “Message To Michael” (Dionne Warwick) #9 “Sloop John B” (The Beach Boys) #10 “Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart” (The Supremes)
French Open Quiz Answers: 1) Men’s seeds: 1. Roger Federer 2. Rafael Nadal 3. Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 4. Andy Murray 5. Robin Soderling (Sweden) 6. Andy Roddick 7. Fernando Verdasco (Spain) 8. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) 9. David Ferrer (Spain) 10. Marin Cilic (Croatia)…after a fair amount of time I would have gotten six of them, maybe just 5. 2) Women’s seeds: 1. Serena Williams 2. Venus Williams 3. Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) 4. Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) 5. Elena Dementieva (Russia)…and…6. Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia…I’m a sucker for the name Svetlana) 7. Sam Stosur (Australia…never heard of him, err, her) 8. Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland…I’m a sucker for the name Agnieska) 9. Dinara Safina (Russia) 10. Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)…and…12. Maria Sharapova (Russia) 22. Justine Henin (Belgium)….and what was up with Venus’ outfit on Sunday?
