Aussie legends back Hewitt return

Lleyton Hewitt's intense tune-up that day with coach Tony Roche as he plots his return to tennis five months after hip surgery has drawn praise from senior Australian icon John Newcombe.

Mallorca to pay the outlay for Nadal
Rafael Nadal © Gallo carveds figure The tourism authority of Majorca will pay 6 million euros (8.4 million dollars) to have heavenly body integer one Rafael Nadal endorse his manor island as a holiday destination for the next one second childhood.

Black Cats stick with Sbragia:
Sunderland have confirmed the appointment of Ricky Sbragia as the club's new permanent manager on an 18-week contract. Sbragia has superseded in caretaker charge at the Stadium of Light since the resignation of Roy Keane at the activate of December.

National Clay Court Tennis Championship: Sara Mahboob faces Ushna in women's final
Staff opinion ISLAMABAD: Top seed Sara Mahboob defeated Saba Aziz in a one-sided women's semi-final of the National Clay Court Tennis Championship at the PTF Complex here on Friday.

Tennis: inferior ASB Classic wildcard named
ASB Classic The organisers of the ASB Classic tennis tournament have announced their extra main draw wildcard for next year's event. Former teenager prodigy Mirjana Lucic has joined Japan's Kimiko antecedent Krumm in receiving main draw wildcards.


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