Running from the tailback position for the Cowboys this year will be (left to right) Andre Anderson, Champlain Babin, Javaris Murray and Marcus Wiltz.
Andre Anderson returns as an all-SLC performer
(this is another in a series of articles on McNeese State 2011 football prospects.
The numbers don’t lie.
Serena Williams is 29 years old and ranked No. 172 in the world. The No. 1 ranking, which she lost to Caroline Wozniacki last October, is a fading memory and it would appear she is on the downside of her tennis career.
But Williams, her legacy assured thanks to 13 Grand Slam titles, doesn’t seem interested in talking about retirement.
She flashed a little of the defiant attitude that helped her ascend to the top of the tennis world when she was asked Wednesday if she was nearing the end of the road.
Either that or, well, she really is getting old and is having trouble remembering things like her age.
“I’m actually 26,” Williams said during a Rogers Cup media conference call Wednesday.
McDonnell: Title fight
Jamie McDonnell and Stuey Hall will clash at the Doncaster Dome on September 3 in what will be British boxing’s biggest bantamweight fight for years.
Defending champion Mardy Fish will meet fellow American John Isner in the final of the Atlanta Tennis Championships for the second consecutive year.
World number nine Fish ensured he would defend his crown after he cast aside 19-year-old compatriot Ryan Harrison 6-2 6-4.
That set up a re-match of last year’s final after Isner edged a big-serving duel with Luxembourg’s Gilles Muller 7-5 6-7 (7/3) 6-1 in two hours and 29 minutes.
Third seed Isner fired down 28 aces, and while Muller weight in with 16 of his own, it was not enough to prevent another all-American final.
Nick Zeien (Hastings, MN, Hastings) set a school record and ran a NCAA Meet provisional qualifying time in the 400 competing at the Augustana NCAA Qualifying Meet on Friday in Rock Island, Ill.
Zeien ran a time of 48.43 to set the school record. He broke his own record set earlier this year of 48.87. The time was his best of the year in the race.
Lucas Mueller (Watertown, MN, Lutheran) ran the 400 hurdles and had a time of 53.76. His time was a NCAA Meet provisional qualifying time.
Jim Walrath (Big Bend, Mukwonago) and Benjamin Tykwinski (Inver Grove Heights, MN, Simley) competed in the hammer throw. Walrath’s throw of 179-11 is a NCAA Meet provisional qualifying effort. Read full article…