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    Serena Williams Serena Williams was born September 26, 1981, in Saginaw Michigan. At the age of four she started playing tennis, and quickly was found by the tennis academy of Rick Macci, who polished their natural skills and talent. By 1991 she was ranked 1st in the 10 and under division, at the tennis association junior tour. Serena started playing professional in 1995, one year after her sister started playing professional. Four years later she completed her career grand slam in 1999.…

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    “The Battle of the Sexes” between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King was an iconic re-enactment of one of the world’s oldest conflicts in history: the battle of man verses woman, played out on a simple green and white painted concrete court. Yet the spectacle surrounding the match was anything but simple; hosted in the futuristic Astrodome with a crowd of 30,492 present, this match became the most watched tennis match in the US. This landmark match was televised to over 90 million people around…

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    Cameron Kittle, an Executive Editor from the University of New Hampshire describes his love for golf and for Tiger Woods in his article “ I am Tiger Woods”. The author recalls as a five year old boy receiving his very first gold club; a rusty old sawed off five-iron. He went out to his backyard in Canton, Michigan to hit his very first golf balls. He says “The second those Top Flite dimples whisked into the high grass behind our house, I was hooked for life” Cameron would practice putting into a…

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    Proficient Tennis Player

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    Proficient tennis players merit their salaries lower,because there is no reason the reason Doctors aggravate under tennis players. Doctors would truly sparing people lives,and tennis players are not finishing nothing Anyway running crosswise over those court. The Normal tennis players that wins their competition gets payed 1. 5 million dollars similar to Novak Dgokorie Also Serena Williams. Dgokorie What's more Williams need aid those two The greater part referred to and payed tennis players in…

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    Michelle Williams got paid less than 1% of her male co-star just because she was a woman. In the reshoot of the movie “All the money in the world”, Michelle Williams got paid less than $1,000 while Mark Wahlberg got paid about $1.5 million. Williams even admits to missing thanksgiving to work on the reshoot of the movie. “I had to break the news to my family and tell them I wasn’t going be home [for the holidays] and make alternate arrangements for them,” she told Vulture. “But everyone was so…

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    Tiger Woods's Life

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    Tiger Woods , was an incredible golfer and has possibly the best record in golfing history which could arguably make if one of the best golfers in history. He was a huge influence to golfing in general , which has had an impact on gold even to this day. His childhood , his teenage years and his adulthood all had an impact on his life which got him to where he is now. Tiger Woods was born with the name Eldrick Woods on December 30, 1975 , In Cypress , California. Tiger Woods was the only child…

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    It took years of hard work and dedication for Serena Williams to end up at the top of the tennis world. She proudly says that she came from nothing in a sport that expects you have a little something. While she’s currently No. 2, she ranked No. 1 in the world six times and held that position for a total of 309 weeks; the culmination of her achievements has led her to be regarded as one of the greatest female tennis players of all time. Serena, along with her sisters, found herself moving…

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    strokes in the 1960 U.S. Open and as a fourth-place finisher in the 1961 U.S. Open. In 1962, at the Oakmont Country Club outside of Pittsburgh, Nicklaus beat Arnold Palmer in a play-off to win the U.S. Open (Baughman, 1998), Jack’s first PGA Major Championship. It went down as both one of the most popular and unpopular win in history, as Arnie’s army, Palmer’s gallery of fans, were distraught at their hero’s first major loss. These battles would continue, and there is no compelling evidence at…

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    It was the big day. It was our flag football championship. Now, you may be thinking "who cares about flag football, it's not even a real sport. Yes it is. In fact, flag football games get just as intense as any other football game. It's still a contact sport too. Not to mention the fact that we are playing Olweiler in this championship game. They are huge. Their smallest guys is about 6'1 and they are actually all players from the same real school football team. Their goal: win with no…

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    In my sophomore year my baseball team qualified to the state championship game. In high school sports that is the highest stage you can reach. It was the dream of a lifetime to play the championship game at Volcano Stadium. I was so nervous, but I was able to keep my cool during warm ups. The game did not start the way we wanted it, we played terrible the first four innings, making many errors and mental mistakes that cost runs. The game was starting to favor the other team by a staggering…

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