Tag : Tom Squitieri
Washington Kastles Win 34th Straight Match, Establish New Unbeaten Pro-sports Record
By Tom Squitieri WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 9, 2013) Unbeaten. Untied. Unstoppable. And now, unmatched. The Mylan World TeamTennis’ champion Washington Kastles won their 34th straight match tonight, setting a new professional sports unbeaten record and launching them solidly toward another WTT title. Leander Paes and Bobby Reynolds (Photo credit: Camerawork USA) The Kastles dispatched conference rivalRead moreWashington Kastles Win 33rd Straight; Continue March into Sports History
By Tom Squitieri WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 8, 2013) They used new players, a new strategy and then closed with longtime heroes, the same First Lady Michelle Obama cheering in the stands and the same result: the Mylan World TeamTennis’ champion Washington Kastles won their 33rd straight match today, earning the team a share of professional sports’ much vauntedRead moreComing Back From Love 30
There is an extra amount of determination on the courts of the Junior Tennis Championship Center this day. As the tennis students battle hot sun, humidity and the dust of the red clay courts, their energy is connected to the grass of Wimbledon some 3,657 miles away — as the tennis ball flies. On thatRead moreKastles poised to make more tennis and sports history
They played arguably the most thrilling, important match of the 2012 World Team Tennis regular season, the one that harkened back to when the outcome would determine who was number one in the world of women’s tennis. It was championship tennis at its finest. And now Venus Williams and Martina Hingis are teammates – forRead moreBumper Car Highways
As published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Familial smash hit: Bumper cars drive father-daughter joy June 26, 2013 12:08 am By Tom Squitieri The good news finally came after weeks and weeks of waiting: Our favorite room, the Safari Room, was available the nights we had requested at our favorite bed-and-breakfast a mere stone’sRead moreThere’s trouble in River City, and it’s spelled D-A-M
There is a village in Afghanistan by the name of Kobakai, a few winding hours from Kabul, where the lives of the residents changed because of one thing: water. With help from outside groups such as CARE, one morning the residents of Kobakai (ko-BAH-ki) woke to find that beginning that day they would not haveRead moreWashington Kastles Fall to Andy Roddick-Led Springfield Lasers
By Tom Squitieri WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 11, 2013) The Mylan World TeamTennis champions Washington Kastles lost their first home match in more than two years Thursday, falling to the Springfield Lasers 22-15 in front of the third straight capacity crowd at Kastles Stadium at The Wharf. Washington entered Thursday’s match 16-0 all-time since moving to theirRead moreHow many times can the game change?
In January 1864, some strangely dressed men with odd accents arrived in the camp of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, whose troops had been reeling from shortages of arms and supplies. They demonstrate a new weapon – an amazingly high powered accurate “repeater” rifle – and offer it to Lee. He accepts. And the armingRead moreWell, what are we going to do with those cyber baddies
U.S. Congressman Mike Rogers chairs the House of Representatives’ panel on intelligence, which this week overwhelmingly approved a new cyber security bill designed to enhance data sharing between the government and private industry to protect computer networks and intellectual property from cyber attacks. Yet the day before it passed, Rogers had a more novel ideaRead moreBut those laces….
No debate. They are the best red high tops ever made. Raymond was very happy.Read moreGuns for the Guys
The idea of arming the Syrian rebels is being chatted up once again. The debate will wander and focus in many theoretical directions. Yet essentially the decision will focus on one key pivot: is the goal a short-term or long-term victory? The safe bet: short-term considerations will win out. The U.N. proclamation that the oneRead moreA “So-Mali” Solution?
With the French military intervention in Mali shifting to a more sustained action, the reality of the long, hard slog in the Mali region has triggered inevitable questions by diplomats, policy planners and many others as to what defines success – and what comes next? Most mouthed answer: “Somalia.” That’s correct. The place where humanitarianRead more