Serena Williams goes for another Grand Slam starting this week.
She looks primed and ready.
Check out her practice video.
One of the greatest modern American athletes is gunning for a 14th Major tennis tournament.
She has been everything possible in American sports.

The Kop aren't singing as their 'Sweet Carroll-nine' stays out of tune

The Kop wastes little time composing songs for new heroes. The moment a player starts to quicken the pulse with thrilling performances, or a new signing arrives amid a blaze of publicity, the wordsmiths get to work.

It was a story that started almost a year and a half ago in a blaze of publicity which involved a major newspaper, allegations of corruption in another sport, a non-league football club and suicide. Now, with the half-way point in the following season fast approaching, it seems almost certain that the final chapter to play out in the life of Croydon Athletic Football Club will end in the collapse of a club which found itself thrust into the front page of newspapers around the world and, as the authorities pick over the carcass of this club over the next few weeks and months, a question well worth asking will be that of how nobody came to recognise the signs that there was something terribly, horribly wrong at this club earlier than it was.

Alyssa Blahnik, playing for the Burnsville Blaze, scored one of the more fantastic goals I've witnesses in a Minnesota State High School Soccer Tournament. Blahnik's team was matching up against the Wayzata Trojans in Thursday Girls 2A Final. Blahnik receives a clearance ball from Maddie Eklin. The junior forward who had made a number of [.

Mall of America Field (Metrodome) Girls 2A Final Wayzata 2-1 Burnsville (4-3 in PK's) The last Minnesota State High School Soccer Tournament final of the night saw the unseeded Burnsville Blaze (17-5-0) take on the #4 seeded Wayzata Trojans (18-2-2). The game stated brightly for Burnsville. Just five minutes in junior midfielder Tiana Khamvongsa laid down [.

I've heard there was a special chord

That Ray Hudson sang when Messi scored

But you don't really care for pundits, do you?

It goes like this

The fourth, the fifth

The Xavi pass, the Andres split

The baffled d decomposing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was low you needed a lift

You saw him darting on the pitch

His beauty in the floodlights overthrew you

He glued you to a Nou Camp chair

He climbed your throne, he showed you flair

And from your lips he drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Halleluja, Hallelujah

There was a time when you tread below

Dinho was fat & Marquez slow

But now you look down upon me, do you?

Opportunities like this will continue to be wasted as long as teams insist on their players wearing dark shorts. Don't say we didn't warn you. Image: REUTERS/Andrew Winning.

Think of this as a snapshot of European football, rather than any kind of coherent, informative 'results' round-up.

Don't get your hands burnt like Mario Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli has predictably been signed up to front a firework safety campaign ahead of Bonfire Night. The 21-year-old made the headlines at the weekend when the fire service had to attend his Cheshire mansion to put out a serious blaze started by a firework [.

21 year old Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli escaped un-hurt after a firework set his bathroom alight at midnight last night. Four firefighters contained the blaze which is not being treated as suspicious, leaving us thinking did Balotelli set the firework alight himself?

It really does crazier each time Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli has escaped without injury following a fire at his home. The blaze was started by fireworks being let off in the bathroom in the early hours of this morning. Two fire crews had to enter his Cheshire mansion to tackle the "substantial fire".

By Chris Wright

Apologies as we're a little late on this one but, after bringing you news that Breno's house had been gutted by fire last week, news is filtering through that the Bayern Munich defender has been arrested by German police on suspicion of having started the blaze himself.

Same Old England...Always Losing - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Before the European Championships, Stuart Pearce was given the assignment to prepare England's under 21′s for what life would be like as part of the full national side. By crashing out at the group stage in a blaze of glorious failure, Pearce has managed to pass the test in flying colours.

"To be simple is to be great." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ronaldo was (yes, I'm still getting used to talking about him in the past tense too) a great player, of that there is no doubt. The finest striker of his generation, the Brazilian had in abundance the supernatural technique those abilities that even fellow professionals struggle to fathom that marks out the game's true masters.

Another nice day on the pitch ahead of us as temps started out in the low 70′s and aren't supposed to exceed 79 later this afternoon. Slight cloud cover, it's pretty sweet compared to what we've experienced in the past.

Springfield SC
Four teams competing today, with Boys 13-16 games.

... but can Arsenal? Well, that should've been the last line of this post really but what the heck. I figured I'd just come out and say it anyway. Today is the day all of North London will pretend that it is the center of the universe (what a terribly annoying habit), and Arsenal will pretend that they've finally grown a big pair of cojones, and Spurs will pretend they are consistent Champions League material.

... but can Arsenal? Well, that should've been the last line of this post really but what the heck. I figured I'd just come out and say it anyway. Today is the day all of North London will pretend that it is the center of the universe (what a terribly annoying habit), and Arsenal will pretend that they've finally grown a big pair of cojones, and Spurs will pretend they are consistent Champions League material.

Kenny Dalglish waited 9,394 days to get the chance to manage Liverpool in Europe but after a turgid Europa League goalless draw against Sparta Prague he must have wondered why he looked forward to it so much.
The 59-year-old missed out on continental competition in his first spell as Reds boss because of the ban on English clubs after the Heysel disaster.

Excuse my piss poor French!
But the SLeague champions, with less than two weeks to their Charity Shield game against Tampines Rovers, have done little on the PR front. Their website, for example, has been untouched for yonks.
If they can't be bothered to keep fans up to date with what's going on, and I'm sorry but Facebook and Twitter don't count, then they shouldn't be surprised if fans, and potential fans, lose interest.