As the sky darkened near the end of the fourth day at Wimbledon, the temperature, which had once been a pleasant 75, plunged into the 50s and sent a particularly onerous chill into U.S. men's tennis.

Ah the serve, the serve. Maria Sharapova's has forsaken her and Andy Roddick's did not come up to scratch, whereas Andy Murray's is suddenly like the stone from David's sling, whose aim and impact strikes right ...

Former champion Maria Sharapova, out. Two-time runner-up Andy Roddick, gone. Wimbledon ended in stunning second-round upsets Thursday for two of the top title contenders and biggest names in the game.

WIMBLEDON, England, June 26 -- Five years removed from winning the 2003 U.S. Open, Andy Roddick is acutely aware of the blank on his rA sumA where subsequent Grand Slam titles were projected to ...

West Coast college basketball fans already knew what the NBA draft confirmed: This was a one-of-a-kind season in the Pacific 10 Conference.

Maria Sharapova was floored at Wimbledon on Thursday by the daughter of a Greco-Roman wrestler.

Golden girl Maria Sharapova and Andy Roddick, the all-American poster boy of men's tennis, suffered their worst Wimbledon defeats yesterday.

Moments after Maria Sharapova walked off the court in defeat, her father stomped away from the stadium down a Wimbledon walkway, spitting out words in Russian as he gestured to a companion.

Maria Sharapova suffered a humiliating second round exit at Wimbledon today as the former champion was beaten 6-2, 6-4 by fellow Russian and world number 154 Alla Kudryavtseva.

London: It would have been perfectly understandable if Alla Kudryavtseva had offered to carry her opponent's kitbag from the dressing room to the court in the All England Lawn Tennis Club on Thursday.

fredr1k writes " A test carried out by Pegasus Lab on account for Swedish magazine PC För alla showed that a normal PC keyboard was infected by more bacteria than a normal toilet seat. More specific it contained 33000 bacteria per square centimeter, compared to 130 on a ordinary toilet seat. The tests also showed occurrence of up to 3100 fungi per square centimeter." Also note that unless you read Swedish, you still have plausible deniability when asked to windex yours.

Last Saturday night I had the pleasure of enjoying the "Dear Friends" concert of Final Fantasy music in Rosemont, Illinois. Composer Nobuo Uematsu is well known among game players for the intricate melodies that create the backdrop for most of the Final Fantasy titles. Even the older titles, 8-bit compositions though they were, made for evocative soundscapes. When taken into the hands of a skilled orchestra Uematsu's works are incredibly stirring pieces of music. Read on for my impressions from the start of the first U.S. concert series composed entirely of video game music. Update: 02/25 21:08 GMT by Z : Coincidentally, GamesIndustry.biz has an interview with Nobuo Uematsu available for perusal today.

zeb writes "MSWL is one of the most popular PBEM football (soccer for North Americans) game, which is itself a variation of a game of postal soccer invented by Alan Parr in England around 1970. In this game, each manager has to organise his team, manage fatigue, train his players and trade them. Olmec is a game engine written by Alla Sellers. It helps the commissioner (game master) to simulate the games and publish the results. Allan has decided to release the source code of Olmec under the GPL, so that everyone can enhance the program. The actual version of Olmec is written in Visual Basic and uses MS Access as a database. The author suggests Olmec could be rewritten in a multiplatform language, for example Java, using MySQL as the database. This task is made easy because of the rich documentation about the game engine (PDF format)."

Rayban writes: "Just noticed on news.gnome.org that the Linux framebuffer support for Gtk+ is now in CVS. This means that you can now write a quick Gnome app that doesn't require X at all! Imagine a Gtk+-based distro installation that can run solely off the framebuffer! No more VESA hack and a significant disk space savings - maybe even a Gtk+-based bootloader? The screenshots are here, here and here." Obviously the screenshots aren't very special, but I'm having no problem thinking of interesting, useful tasks for this.

AT writes "The new Mozilla Gecko display engine has been embedded into a GTK widget. This means that you can embed webpages into your application, just like you might with an ActiveX control under Windows. " Can I embed mozilla in mozilla yet?

alexl writes "The winner of the best of COMDEX award in the "Best Internet Software" class is... Roxen Platform. A less known fact is that the core part of the platform, the Roxen Challenger webserver, is free software, licenced under the GPL. There is even a pointer to it in the official Gnu archive. "