All-Russian US Open Final a Tough Sell for US Television
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So it will be that hottie Maria Sharapova grunting her way to a second...no? Got beat? Then it&#39;s that tempestuous nude-posing Marilyn Manson-look-alike Anastasia Myskina gunning for a second...no? Elena Dementieva?
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ATHENS, Greece - Sheryl Swoopes made three big plays at the end - two baskets and another on defense - to help the United States squeeze out a 66-62 semifinal victory over Russia on Friday. Now, only one game stands between the U.S...
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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - When the United States meets Belarus in their Davis Cup semifinal later this month, former world No.
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Picking the men&#39;s winner of the US Open, which will begin today in Flushing Meadows, NY, is no sure thing, based on what happened at the year&#39;s two previous Grand Slam events.
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Venus Williams of the US returns a shot during a match against Elena Bovina of Russia at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow&#39;s Olympic Indoor stadium on Friday, Oct. 15, 2004.
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Roger Federer&#39;s dominant win over Lleyton Hewitt was the lowest-rated US Open men&#39;s final ever. Federer&#39;s 6-0, 7-6 (3), 6-0 win over Hewitt on Sunday drew a preliminary national rating of 2.5 for CBS.
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The total prize money for this year's US Open is nearly Â£10m while the men's and women's champions will win almost Â£700,000 each.
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With five of the top eight players in this week&#39;s $3 million WTA Championships hailing from the land of Lenin and Kournikova, Tour organizers should consider renaming this season-ending tournament the Russian Open.
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Golf analysts and fans will be discussing - and dissing - the US team&#39;s flop for some time. Europe handed the US its worst defeat ever, 18 1/2 to 9 1/2, at Oakland Hills Country Club.
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Russian Davis Cup player Dmitry   Tursunov says he is dismayed that politics still seem to have a   role when his country faces the United States.
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NEW YORK -- Whom do we blame for what happened last night -- a Russian woman Svetlana Kuznetsova taking home the US Open tennis championship?
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The US Open is really all that&#39;s left for defending champion Andy Roddick this year. He&#39;s coming in ranked No. 2 without a big title run since he won Miami in March and although he&#39;s been in the mix at nearly
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Moscow, Russia (Sports Network) - Two seeded Russians, including US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, advanced on Wednesday, but No.
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For once, when the US Open kicks off in New York tomorrow it won&#39;t be the biggest show in town. The Republican convention, with its threatened attendant demonstrations
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French Open runner-up Yelena Dementyeva recovered from a terrible start to beat an emotional Vera Zvonareva 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 in a bizarre fourth-round match at the US Open on Sunday.
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Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Russian compatriot Elena Dementieva 6-3, 7-5 on Saturday to capture the US Open title, in her first Grand Slam finals appearance.
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Tomorrow, he faces a far more demanding task. Tomorrow, with one more increasingly precious chance at US Open glory on the line in a marquee quarterfinal, the last American legend standing