SF Examiner: Roddick’s path a lesson for rising star Harrison

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

Buster Posey, for one, seemed composed from the first time he picked up a baseball, or no less significantly picked up a team.

Same thing as the good people in San Francisco will verify, for Joe Montana, or in the vernacular of success, “Joe Cool.”

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RealClearSports.com: Leinart, Roddick ... What Might Have Been

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

NEW YORK - Andy Roddick has departed, and apropos of nothing but pertinent to everything, Matt Leinart could be arriving, although the belief is he'll end up in another town.

Two young athletes, two different sports, two levels of frustration.

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CBSSports.com: Lu -- who? -- loss looks like Roddick's last Wimbledon stand

By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange/CBSSports.com

WIMBLEDON, England -- The plot invariably differs, but every ending is the same. Andy Roddick doesn't win Wimbledon.

It doesn't matter if he loses gallantly to Roger Federer in the final, as he did last year and twice before that, or stunningly to someone named Yen-Hsun Lu, as he did Monday in the fourth round.

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CBSSports.com: Roddick seems destined to face familiar foe in semis

By Art Spander
Special to CBSSports.com

WIMBLEDON, England -- They call them Nearly Men over here, athletes who get so close but can't reach the top. At Wimbledon, where he has lifted hopes but never the champion's trophy, that description might be appropriate for Andy Roddick.

Or it might not.

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RealClearSports: Tennis's Version of March Madness

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- The first game of the tournament, and the favorite, Notre Dame is upset, delighting maybe everyone who didn't have the Irish winning in their pool.

Which is why basketball, any team sport, is so different from the tournament now going on here, the BNP Paribas tennis open. 

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