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Williams Sisters Strike Twelve in Paris

PARIS, France - The Williams sisters shook off singles losses and won their fourth Grand Slam doubles title in a row, taking the French Open title with a 62 63 win over Kveta Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik.
The Williams sisters, seeded No.1, won the first four games of the match and barely looked back, a break against them early in the second set their only hitch. They were playing No.12 seeds Peschke and Srebotnik for the first time.
It was the Williams sisters' 12th Grand Slam doubles crown, adding to four previous Australian Opens (2001, 2003, 2009, 2010), one French Open (1999), four Wimbledons (2000, 2002, 2008, 2009) and two US Opens (1999, 2009). It was their fourth in a row - they haven't lost a Grand Slam match since the third round of last year's French (to Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Nadia Petrova).
"It's really tough when you play one Williams. When you play two, it's really not an easy win," Venus said. "Kveta and Katarina played really well this whole tournament. We just played the big points a little bit better today.
"Doubles for us isn't just for fun - we're playing for the title."
"It feels great. I mean, we have a Williams Slam," Serena said on the four straight majors. "When you're out there playing singles, it's a great feeling. But to play doubles with your sister, your flesh and blood, that's even better."
"We're the longest standing doubles team. We've been playing since the '80s," Venus said. "We've got quite a record. We don't even remember the first time."
"I remember a couple of things," Serena replied. "My dad told Venus to cross more, so I think she got upset and crossed when the person was serving. She ended up volleying the serve. It was so funny. My dad, he's so positive, he was like, 'Oh, no, no, Venus, not that. Just wait until after the serve.'
"I promise you, every tournament I think about that when we're in doubles."
"I remember that," Venus added.
Venus and Serena are the third-most successful partnership in the Open Era in terms of Grand Slam doubles titles won together, after Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver (20) and Gigi Fernandez and Natasha Zvereva (14).
Given their semifinal win over Liezel Huber and Anabel Medina Garrigues, the Williams sisters will be co-world No.1s on the doubles rankings starting next week, taking over from Huber. Serena Williams will be the sixth player ever to hold No.1 in both singles and doubles simultaneously, after Navratilova (who did it for 103 weeks), Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario (7 weeks), Martina Hingis (29 weeks), Lindsay Davenport (3 weeks) and Kim Clijsters (3 weeks).
Peschke and Srebotnik, who won Indian Wells together earlier this year, had beaten No.6 seeds Cara Black and Elena Vesnina and No.2 seeds Nuria Llagostera Vives and María José Martínez Sánchez to reach the final in their first Grand Slam tournament as a team.
A day earlier on Court Philippe Chatrier, Srebotnik captured her fourth Grand Slam mixed doubles title alongside Nenad Zimonjic.
TIW 6-4-10 DE Pick 4
Winning Numbers: 0362 & 4433
7195, 8716, 9438, 6541, 6028, 5872, 5692
0479, 0376, 0385, 0891, 4732, 1392, 2410
0381, 7039, 8257, 9123, 9647, 1704, 1984
6208, 6509, 6571, 6783, 2054, 3584, 4236
0370, 0371, 0372, 0373, 0374, 0375, 0376, 0377, 0378, 0379
5820, 5821, 5822, 5823, 5824, 5825, 5826, 5827, 5828, 5829
#'s showing up twice: 6028(6208) 5872(8257) 1392(9123)
TIW 6-4-10 NY Pick 4
Winning Numbers: 7261 & 6774
4605, 9463, 0129, 3516, 3879, 5947, 5307
8140, 8243, 8295, 8906, 1427, 6207, 7168
0729, 1073, 2851, 3987, 3461, 9106, 9326
4802, 4503, 4519, 4127, 8056, 7526, 6874
Any of these could fall, but the 3879(3987)
and the 1427(4127) are showing up twice,
worth watching very closely.
TIW 6-4-10 SC Pick 4
Winning Numbers: 9991 & 4918
4062, 5403, 6185, 3210, 3795, 2549, 2369
7146, 7843, 7852, 7560, 1489, 0869, 9107
5043, 6502, 4186, 2310, 2796, 3659, 3249
7154, 7852, 7863, 7640, 1589, 0849, 9107
3210, 3211, 3212, 3213, 3214, 3215, 3216, 3217, 3218, 3219
0210, 1210, 2210, 3210, 4210, 5210, 6210, 7210, 8210, 9210
0310, 1310, 2310, 3310, 4310, 5310, 6310, 7310, 8310, 9310
9100, 9101, 9102, 9103, 9104, 9105, 9106, 9107, 9108, 9109
0107, 1107, 2107, 3107, 4107, 5107, 6107, 7107, 8107, 9107
#'s showing up twice: 5043(5403)
TIW 6-4-10 SC Midday
Winning Numbers: 503 & 9991
740, 854, 987, 946, 905, 068, 132, 576
4062, 5403, 6185, 3210, 3795, 2549, 2369
7146, 7843, 7852, 7560, 1489, 0869, 9107
740, 851, 962, 073, 184, 295, 306, 417, 528, 639
854, 965, 076, 187, 298, 309, 410, 521, 632, 743
987, 098, 109, 210, 321, 432, 543, 654, 765, 876
068, 179, 280, 391, 402, 513, 624, 735, 846, 957
132, 243, 354, 465, 576, 687, 798, 809, 910, 021
4060, 4061, 4062, 4063, 4064, 4065, 4066, 4067, 4068, 4069
0062, 1062, 2062, 3062, 4062, 5062, 6062, 7062, 8062, 9062
5400, 5401, 5402, 5403, 5404, 5405, 5406, 5407, 5408, 5409
0403, 1403, 2403, 3403, 4403, 5403, 6403, 7403, 8403, 9403
7850, 7851, 7852, 7853, 7854, 7855, 7856, 7857, 7858, 7859
0852, 1852, 2852, 3852, 4852, 5852, 6852, 7852, 8852, 9852
0860, 0861, 0862, 0863, 0864, 0865, 0866, 0867, 0868, 0869
0869, 1869, 2869, 3869, 4869, 5869, 6869, 7869, 8869, 9869
2360, 2361, 2362, 2363, 2364, 2365, 2366, 2367, 2368, 2369
0369, 1369, 2369, 3369, 4369, 5369, 6369, 7369, 8369, 9369
95, 09, 32, 51, 53, 13, 40, 54, 87, 06, 08 and/or 68 pairs
**** Note: This is one of the strangest [TIW Workouts] I've
seen, so it could be a triple indicator. Time will tell ****
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6-4-10 NC Midday 886 [ posted too late for this one ]
Midday 6-5-10 Evening
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Murder suspect arrives in Peru after expulsion from Chile
By the CNN Wire Staff
Santa Rosa, Peru (CNN) -- Dozens of jeering, angry Peruvians met murder suspect Joran van der Sloot Friday as Chilean authorities handed him over to their counterparts in Peru in the border town of Santa Rosa.
Van der Sloot, previously a suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, is the main suspect in this week's slaying of a 21-year-old Peruvian woman found Wednesday in a Lima hotel room registered to him. Chilean police told CNN that paperwork showed that van der Sloot entered Chile that same day.
The Dutch citizen was captured in Chile on Thursday and placed aboard a military aircraft in the custody of officers Friday morning. He was flown to the border to be expelled, said Macarena Lopez, a spokeswoman for Interpol.
The Chileans drove Van der Sloot across the border to a Peruvian police station, where dozens of people awaited his arrival. Police set up a perimeter to keep the crowd away from the suspect as he walked about 100 feet from the car to the station, but the protesters were angry and pushed forward.
Police kept them away from van der Sloot but could not stop the loud and steady rain of obscenities they shouted. He was taken inside the station for processing. From there, he is to be taken to the nearby town of Tanca and then flown to Lima.
Holloway was on a high school graduation trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba in 2005 when she disappeared. Van der Sloot was arrested twice in connection with the case but released both times. He denied any involvement and has not been charged.
The family of Stephany Flores Ramirez, the woman found dead in van der Sloot's hotel room, said Friday they had mixed emotions about the suspect's capture and return to face charges in Peru.
"I cannot say that I was happy," brother Enrique Flores told CNN's Rafael Romo. "I feel a little relief in this pain that I have and that my family has. This pain that won't go away ... We want this action not to happen again."
Stephany's sister-in-law Carolina Jorge was more outspoken.
"We need justice for our family, for Natalee's family," she said.
Stephany's father, Ricardo, was more wistful and philosophical.
"My daughter had everything in life," the businessman and race car driver said. "Perhaps my error was to show her the pretty side of the world. I didn't show her that there was the other side to the world -- the evilness."
The family said they thought Stephany had been abducted until authorities found her body. Her burial was Thursday.
Van der Sloot's former attorney, Joseph Tacopina, told CNN it was too early to reach any conclusions.
"I just think we need to take a step back before we get to the 'I told you so' stage, and let's see what the evidence is here," Tacopina said Thursday.
Tacopina said he is not representing van der Sloot and no longer has a good relationship with the family.
Van der Sloot also faces an arrest warrant on charges of extortion and wire fraud in Alabama, U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance said Thursday. The charges are unrelated to the killing of the Peruvian woman and deal with an attempt to sell details about Holloway for $250,000, Vance said.
Van der Sloot, 23, was traveling alone in a taxi near the Chilean central coastal city of Vina del Mar Thursday when he was detained, said Douglas Rodriguez, spokesman for the Chilean Investigative Police.
TV images showed him emerging from a black police SUV at the police station. His hair, which had been dark in previous images, was red and worn in a close-cropped crew cut.
There is "incriminating evidence" linking van der Sloot to the killing of Flores, said Peruvian criminal investigator Cesar Guardia Vasquez.
The woman's bludgeoned body was found in Room 309 of the Hotel Tac in the Miraflores section of Lima, police said. She suffered blunt trauma to the head, breaking her neck, and to her torso and back, Peruvian police said Thursday.
Van der Sloot had been staying at the hotel since arriving from Colombia on May 14, police said. Room 309 was booked in his name, authorities said.
A hotel guest and an employee witnessed the pair entering the hotel room together at 5 a.m. Sunday, Guardia said. Police have video of van der Sloot and Flores together the previous night at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima, he said.
Two Peruvian cab drivers said in an interview on CNN affiliate America TV that they drove a man matching van der Sloot's description to a city on the other side of the Chilean border.
"He paid me and I took him to Arica, to the border," cab driver Oswaldo Aparcana said.
The man sat in the front seat and smoked many cigarettes, Aparcana said. The passenger told the cabbies he used to live in Aruba, said the other driver, Carlos Alberto Uribe.
Holloway, the Alabama teenager, disappeared May 30, 2005, five years to the day since the hotel videotape that officials say showed van der Sloot and Flores going into his hotel room. Both women are reported to have met van der Sloot at a night spot.
Ricardo Flores said police found his daughter's car about 50 blocks from the hotel. Inside the car, he said, authorities found pills like those used in date rapes.
Ricardo Flores said he did not believe his daughter knew the Dutch citizen beforehand.
Both of them speak English and they struck up conversation at the casino, he said.
Interpol had alerted its office in Chile and other bordering countries of the case and placed them on alert in case van der Sloot tried to leave that country, Peruvian Interpol Interim Director Gerson Ortiz told CNN.
Van der Sloot was arrested in Aruba in 2005 along with two other men, brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe, in connection with Holloway's disappearance. They were later released.
In 2007, they were arrested a second time after Aruba's then-chief prosecutor, Hans Mos, said he had received new evidence in the case.
Van der Sloot, who was attending college in the Netherlands, was brought back to Aruba. But judges ruled the new evidence -- which included an Internet chat the same day Holloway disappeared in which one of the three youths said she was dead -- was not enough to keep them jailed.
In 2008, prosecutors sought unsuccessfully to arrest van der Sloot a third time after a videotape surfaced on Dutch television. In it, van der Sloot tells a man he considered to be his friend that he had sex with Holloway on the beach after leaving the nightclub, then she "started shaking" and lost consciousness. He said he panicked when he could not resuscitate her and called a friend who had a boat. The two put Holloway's body in the boat, he said, and then he went home. The friend told him the next day that he had carried the body out and dumped it in the ocean.
But an Aruba court ruled there was not enough evidence to re-arrest him. Aruban prosecutors said authorities had met with van der Sloot in the Netherlands, but in a two-hour interview he denied any role in Holloway's disappearance.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Ferry, Cavs agree to mutual parting
Associated Press
CLEVELAND -- Danny Ferry resigned as general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers, a surprise decision that complicates the most important offseason in team history.
Ferry's departure Friday after five seasons occurred two weeks after the club fired coach Mike Brown following the team's second-round loss to the Boston Celtics in the NBA playoffs. It also comes as the team is making plans to try to re-sign two-time MVP LeBron James, who will be a free agent next month.
Ferry was in the final month of his contract. He said the decision not to renew his contract was a mutual one with owner Dan Gilbert.
"I thought it was important that there was as much clarity as possible in the organization at this time, so things could start moving forward," Ferry told The Associated Press. "I appreciate all that Dan has done to build a world-class organization."
The team said assistant GM Chris Grant will take over for Ferry, who played in Cleveland for 10 years and became the club's GM in 2005.
During Ferry's tenure, Cleveland made it to the NBA Finals for the first time.
The team said Gilbert would address Ferry's situation in a conference call.
Cleveland's decision to fire Brown, with whom Ferry worked in San Antonio, may have created a divide between the GM and Gilbert. Ferry, though, said there were no hard feelings with Gilbert, who hired him as Cleveland's eighth GM on June 27, 2005.
"It is the right time to move on," Ferry said. "Chris is prepared to do a great job."
Ferry led the Cavs through the most successful period in their history. But despite winning 127 regular-season games and having the league's best record the past two seasons, the Cavaliers failed to make the finals. And now, they're on the verge of possibly losing James.
The club went 272-138 during Ferry's five seasons.
"For five years, Danny Ferry was instrumental in leading the establishment of a culture, process and professionalism that has become part of the fabric of the definition of 'who' are the Cleveland Cavaliers. Danny worked extremely hard to create this strong foundation that we will continue to build upon going forward with much gratitude and appreciation," Gilbert said in a statement.
"This solid foundation is evident by the natural and clear choice to choose his close associate, Chris Grant, whom Danny worked in partnership with for his entire five years leading the Cavaliers front office, to succeed Danny as the Cleveland Cavaliers new general manager."
Friday, June 4, 2010
Nadal to face Soderling in final
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ESPN.com news services
PARIS -- All that stands between Rafael Nadal and a fifth French Open title is the only player ever to beat him at Roland Garros.
Nadal and Robin Soderling won their semifinals Friday to set up a tantalizing rematch. Soderling pulled off a stunner when they met in the fourth round last year, and the upset remains Nadal's lone loss in 38 French Open matches.
"It's always good to have beaten a player before," Soderling said. "I know that I can beat him. I showed it. But every match is a new match, and every match is different."
Soderling, runner-up to Roger Federer in 2009, returned to the final by sweeping the last four games to overtake No. 15-seeded Tomas Berdych 6-3, 3-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-3.
Nadal then beat No. 22 Jurgen Melzer 6-2, 6-3, 7-6 (6).
Soderling has a knack for upsets in Paris -- he beat Federer in the quarterfinals this week -- and he'll be an underdog again Sunday.
The No. 2-seeded Nadal has won all 18 sets in this year's tournament, and he's 21-0 on clay in 2010. He seeks to become the second man to win at least five French Open titles. Bjorn Borg won six.
Should Nadal win, he'll reclaim the No. 1 ranking from Federer next week.
"Believe me, if I win on Sunday, it's going to be the last thing I think," Nadal said. "The important thing is the tournament."
Nadal is bidding for his seventh Grand Slam title. But Soderling's big serve and forehand make him dangerous, as he showed against Berdych.
"He's playing at an amazing level, very aggressive," Nadal said. "He's a very, very dangerous player. He's one of the best of the world. It will be a difficult match."
Venus and Serena Williams won their fourth consecutive Grand Slam doubles title and 12th overall by beating Katarina Srebotnik and Kveta Peschke 6-2, 6-3.
First-time Grand Slam finalists Samantha Stosur and Francesca Schiavone play for the title in women's singles Saturday.
Temperatures in the low 80s made for fast court conditions in the men's semifinals, and the first match quickly developed into a slugfest between two of the hardest hitters in tennis, Soderling and Berdych. Most points were short, and rallies were usually restricted to big swings from the backcourt, with few slices, drop shots, lobs or volleys.
The No. 5-seeded Soderling hit 18 aces, 62 winners and 63 unforced errors. Berdych hit 21 aces, 42 winners and 41 unforced errors.
"It was really tough to play my game," Soderling said, "because he was hitting so hard."
Soderling's only other Grand Slam final was at Roland Garros last year.
"I was only thinking about getting through the first round. Now two weeks later, I'm in the final again," Soderling told the crowd after his win. "It's better than the best dream."
Like Berdych, Melzer was a first-time Grand Slam semifinalist, and the Austrian was overmatched from the baseline. His double-fault gave Nadal the first service break at love in the sixth game, and the Spaniard seized control of the match.
"I played my best match today here at Roland Garros 2010," Nadal said. "With my serve I played all the time well, and with the forehand, too."
There were few long rallies, and Nadal won almost all of them, forcing Melzer to play high-risk tennis. But the Austrian dug in late in the final set, and a rare lapse by Nadal briefly extended the match.
Nadal served for the victory at 5-4 but was broken at love. When he double-faulted to lose the game, he smiled ruefully, bit his lip and shook his head.
"I was a little bit nervous," Nadal said. "I had one double-fault -- that's the only point I'm unhappy with."
The crowd roared at Nadal's stumble, wanting more tennis, and Melzer pushed the set to a tiebreaker, where he erased two match points before smacking his final shot into the net. A grinning Nadal celebrated with a running leap across his favorite stage, bound for another final.
In the Soderling-Berdych marathon, five sets of swinging from the heels came down to the last three games. Serving at 3-all in the final set, Berdych fell behind love-30 and tried a rare drop shot, but Soderling dashed forward and scooped out a backhand winner. Two points later, Berdych dumped a backhand in the net to lose serve.
Soderling rallied from love-30 to hold for 5-3. Then, on the second point of the next game, he dashed from one sideline to the other to whack his running forehand past Berdych.
"Greatest shot of the match," said fellow Swede and three-time French Open champion Mats Wilander.
Match point came moments later, and when Berdych pushed a weary backhand wide, Soderling covered his face with his hands as his accomplishment sunk in.
It was only the fifth five-set win in the Swede's career.
The first service break of the match came in the fourth game, when Berdych clipped the net with a second serve. He soon had lost a set for the first time in the tournament.
But Soderling wobbled, missing with his forehand and losing serve twice in the third set. The second break made it 6-5, and the usually impassive Swede slammed his racket to the court. In the next game Berdych served out the set with four aces, the last at 139 mph.
It was Soderling's turn to rally. He managed the lone break in the fourth set and evened the match after nearly three hours in the sun.
Berdych faded at the finish, but found consolation in reaching his first Grand Slam semifinal.
"It was a great two weeks for me," the big Czech said. "Every round I won here, it's a great moment."
"We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect."
- Harry Lloyd Hopkins -
TIW 6-2-10 GA Midday
Winning Numbers: 656 & 2311
063, 156, 910, 962, 935, 321, 874, 502
6189, 7615, 8037, 5901, 5427, 9762, 9582
4068, 4365, 4379, 4781, 0632, 1382, 2014
156, 267, 378, 489, 590, 601, 712, 823, 934, 045
0615, 1615, 2615, 3615, 4615, 5615, 6615, 7615, 8615, 9615
7610, 7611, 7612, 7613, 7614, 7615, 7616, 7617, 7618, 7619
60, 61, 01, 15, 16 and/or 56 pairs
John & John are crazy!!!