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The saga of match-fixing in professional tennis took a fresh twist today when India's former grand slam champion Mahesh Bhupathi said he was approached to fix a result as far back at the mid 1990s.
SENSATIONAL! I haven't been approached in the context of an ATP (tournament). I was approached maybe 10, 12 years ago, in the context of Davis Cup in India. Mahesh Bhupathi Venus strolls through, Federer sweats again
Melbourne, January 21
Venus Williams and Ana Ivanovic thundered into the Australian Open quarterfinals and Roger Federer overcame his second stern test of the tournament to reach the last eight today.
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Weekend Preview
The Ducks are now just 15-11 overall, and tied for next-to-last in the conference at 6-8. UCLA is fighting for a number one seed, but a fairly rough final stretch could present a problem. Prediction: UCLA 73, Oregon 61Arizona State at Washington (Saturday, 6:00 PM, FSN): An interesting game out West. Arizona State has lost two in a row and seven of its last nine, and also has three of its last five games on the road, where the Sun Devils are just 2-5 this season. On the other side, look at the Huskies' play of late. They knocked off UCLA at home last week, and then defeated Arizona last night at home as well. They are now 6-8 in conference play – just 1.5 games out of fourth place. Prediction: Washington 67, Arizona State 62Saint Joseph's at Rhode Island (Sunday, 4:00 PM, Regional TV): Two teams whose at-large hopes took a major hit this past week in the Atlantic-10.
Deeplinks Blogs related to NSA Spying
This warrantless wiretapping program was the single largest invasion of privacy in the history of the country and we just sanctioned it by granting retroactive immunity. He also vowed to continue the fight when the House returns its version of the bill, using "whatever vehicles we can" to oppose immunity. Glenn Greenwald's blog at Salon provides the appropriate level of outrage, but also points out that the FAA is really a rollback of reforms (login may be required) made in the 1970s after revelations of surveillance abuse at that time: How far we've come -- really: disgracefully tumbled -- from the days of the Church Committee, which aggressively uncovered surveillance abuses and then drafted legislation to outlaw them and prevent them from ever occurring again.
A Look Back: The 2007 Reality TV Year In Review
Twice-spurned Flavor of Love suitor Tiffany Pollard begins her search for love via I Love New York, which delivers VH1's best series debut ratings ever. NBC's The Apprentice: Los Angeles premieres to lackluster ratings. The Donald' with s spills onto The View set. American Idol and Carrie Underwood are victorious at People's Choice Awards. CBS' new Armed & Famous celebrity cop reality show premieres. January 11-20: Trump continues his verbal assault against Rose and Barbara Walters. Four months after denying it, Bravo confirms Queer Eye is coming to an end. Bravo announces it's giving American Idol judge Paula Abdul and Project Runway fashion guru Tim Gunn their own separate reality shows. American Idol's producers start teasing a Beatle-themed week could be on the season's agenda. Jennifer Hudson wins the best supporting actress Golden Globe for Dreamgirls.
Fresh charges filed against Pataudi in hunting case
A city court in Faridabad on Monday framed additional charges against former Indian cricket team captain Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and his accomplice Shashi Singh in a Black Buck hunting case. Pataudi was arrested with seven others in June 2005 for hunting endangered Black Buck deer and was released on bail after three days in prison. Pataudi was booked under sections 9, 39 and 51 of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972. Carcasses of a Black Buck and two hares were seized from his Gypsy vehicle at the time of his arrest. At the last hearing, public prosecutor BL Soni moved an application to add two more charges against Pataudi and Shashi Singh under the Arms Act, 1959. Judge Rajendra Singh Dhanda, after hearing both sides, decided the prosecutors' arguments were valid and charged both the accused under sections 25 and 27 of the Arms Act, 1959.
Win will bring more cooperation: Iemma
THE election of a Rudd Labor government offers an opportunity for better cooperation between the NSW and federal governments, Premier Morris Iemma said today. Labor Leader Kevin Rudd last night became Australia's 26th prime minister as voters across the nation swept John Howard from power and likely dumped him from his Sydney seat. The Labor Party achieved a 5.8 per cent national swing, sealing an ALP hold on every government across Australia. Labor needed 16 seats to claim an election victory for the first time since 1993, but it picked up 10 in Mr Rudd's home state of Queensland and another seven in NSW. Mr Iemma said Mr Rudd's emphatic win in NSW set the scene for greater cooperation between Canberra and the state government. The NSW government and Howard government were often at loggerheads, particularly over contentious GST funding that favoured states like Queensland and Western Australia over NSW and Victoria.
New McAfee Study Highlights Dangerous Internet Sites That Prey on ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) today released a research report that spotlights a dangerous cyber practice known as typo-squatting. "What's In A Name: The State of Typo-Squatting 2007," exposes how typo-squatters register domains using common misspellings of popular brands, products and people in order to redirect consumers to alternative Web sites. These squatter-run sites generate click-through advertising revenues, lure unsuspecting consumers into scams and harvest email addresses to flood users with unwanted email. To quantify the scope of the study, McAfee reviewed 1.9 million variations of 2,771 of the most popular domain names. "Typo-squatting illustrates the Wild West mentality that remains dominant in major portions of the Internet," said Jeff Green, senior vice president of McAfee(R) Avert(R) Labs and Product Development.
Alycia Lane goes free
NEW YORK - Former CBS3 anchor Alycia Lane moved a step toward vindication in a five-minute hearing this morning in criminal court here. Lane, 35, no longer faces a felony assault charge, filed Dec. 16 after a middle-of-the-night encounter with police on a Manhattan street. Lane, out of work since Jan. 1, now faces less serious counts of obstruction of governmental administration and harassment. Both will be dismissed in six months if Lane stays out of trouble, Judge Dina Douglas said. Lane will carry neither a guilty plea nor a conviction on her record. Prosecutor Mike Greenman said the felony charge was dropped because the scratches to the plainclothes police officer were not serious enough to support the charge. Lane also agreed to one day's community service, which she has already performed.
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