September 5, 2012
On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for Vanity Fair, he suddenly found himself being deported “from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady.” Over the next eighteen months, until his death in Houston on December 15, 2011, he wrote constantly and brilliantly on politics and culture, astonishing readers with his capacity for superior work even in extremis.
U.S. Open Match Balls
When sports fans think of game-used memorabilia, baseball bats, hockey sticks and jerseys come to mind. In tennis, players, not teams or leagues, control many of the rights to their gear, and they have not been selling much of it.
When sports fans think of game-used memorabilia, baseball bats, hockey sticks and jerseys come to mind. In tennis, players, not teams or leagues, control many of the rights to their gear, and they have not been selling much of it.
The United States Tennis Association is trying to change that. For the first time, fans at the United States Open can buy tennis balls used in specific matches that have been authenticated and sealed for their protection.
If you saw Novak Djokovic beat Julien Benneteau on Sunday and want a souvenir, you can visit a booth at the Open and, for $59.99, buy one of 11 balls from their third-round match. You can also bid for a 12th ball — the one used for match point — at an online auction on the United States Open Web site.
Macklemore - Thrift Shop
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Cahoon Classic
Cahoon Classic
Play was slow, but we kept our focus and played well as a unit.
Ok, THEY played great as a unit.
I sucked.
Ok, THEY played great as a unit.
I sucked.
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