Shot in the arm for Vancouver tennis - Georgia Straight

Vancouver’s tennis scene got a big boost today with the announcement that Odlum Brown has committed to three more years as the title sponsor of the Odlum Brown Vancouver Open, the top professional annual tennis event in Western Canada. In its
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Tennis not necessarily the game of choice for Wimbledon's competitors - ESPN.com
WIMBLEDON, England -- The standing-room-only crowd at the Common Room is focused intently on the several flat screens scattered around the popular pub. As the ball moves back and forth, murmurs -- fueled by various amber nectars -- flow through the
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As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body.
- Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979