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The Sweets  //  Living the Sweet life in Central Illinois.

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Oct 31 / 2:59pm

Andre Agassi's New Memoir

by Todd Sweet
As an Agassi fan and a tennis fan I found this book excerpt pretty interesting reading.

My name is Andre Agassi. My wife's name is Stefanie Graf. We have two children, a son and a daughter, five and three. We live in Las Vegas but currently reside in a suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City, because I'm playing in the 2006 U.S. Open. My last U.S. Open. In fact my last tournament ever. I play tennis for a living, even though I hate tennis, hate it with a dark and secret passion, and always have.
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Jul 14 / 2:10pm

The Freak

by Todd Sweet

Tim Lincecum, a former star pitcher with the Washington Huskies baseball team, will be the NL starter at this evening's All Star game in St. Louis.  Lincecum, who currently pitches for the San Francisco Giants, was the subject of a great profile in Sports Illustrated last year by Tom Verducci.

 

As if peering around a corner, the Freak tilts his head slightly to the left as he begins his explosive, homemade pitching delivery. What lurks around that corner is either greatness or danger, which makes tiny Tim Lincecum, all 172 pounds of him, the most fascinating pitcher in baseball. Not since Mark (the Bird) Fidrych spoke to baseballs, manicured mounds and baffled hitters more than 30 years ago has a pitcher been this consistent and this captivating from the start of his career. Lincecum does not throw a baseball as much as he launches it, 98-mph rockets somehow expelled, with finely tuned kinetic energy, from a batboy's body. He scares hitters and scouts alike.
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Jul 8 / 9:42am

Three Strikes For Nails

by Todd Sweet
Just over a year ago I read a great profile of former major league baseball player Lenny Dykstra in The New Yorker titled, "Nails Never Fails." The article described the unlikely financial empire built by the scrappy player.  Today I read on ESPN that "Nails" just filed for bankruptcy.

Dykstra's filing comes in the wake of some 20 lawsuits he faces tied to his activities as a financial entrepreneur, including The Players Club, a glossy magazine he had helped launch, according to published reports. [...]

Known as "Nails" and "The Dude," Dykstra played for 12 years with the Mets and the Phillies before retiring in 1996 with a lifetime .285 batting average and 81 home runs.

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