Maria Sharapova wins Third Grand Slam Title

26 Jan 2008: Maria Sharapova claimed her third tennis Grand Slam victory at the Australian Open today after defeating Ana Inavonic in the final. She has previously won the Wimbledon Open in 2004 and the U.S. Open in 2006. The only Grand Slam title still eluding her is the French Open.




Source: wikipedia.org, yahoo.com
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Jaguh Kampung

20 Jan 2008: Lee Chong Wei won the 2008 Malaysia Open Badminton championship for the fourth time in his career surpassing his "Jaguh Kampung" predecessor Rashid Sidek's three-time win from 1990 to 1992. Lee Chong Wei's previous wins here were in 2004 (where he beat South Korean Park Sung Hwan in the final), 2005 and 2006 (where he beat Chinese Lin Dan in the final on both ocassions).

The only record he has yet to overcome is the one held by Wong Peng Soon who won this championship for a record total of 8 times from 1940 to 1953.

His results en-route to victory are as follows:

1st Round: bt Muhd Hafiz B Hashim (Malaysia) 21-17, 21-16
2nd Round: bt Przemyslaw Wacha (Poland) 21-5, 15-21, 21-8
Q Finals: bt Simon Santoso (Indonesia) 21-13, 21-13
S Finals: bt Chen Yu (China) 25-23, 21-11
Final: bt Lee Hyun Il (S Korea) 21-15, 11-21, 21-17

Source: tournamentsoftware.com, wikipedia.org
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Top Pangrams

A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet at least once. The shorter the sentence, the better it is. Among the popular pangrams are as follows:

“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”

35 letters, 9 repeated: o (4 times), e (3 times), h (2 times), r (2 times), t (2 times), u (2 times)

By changing the second "the" to "a", the above sentence has reduced the number of letters from 35 to 33:

“The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.”

33 letters, 7 repeated: o (4 times), a (2 times), e (2 times), r (2 times), u (2 times)

This version is further modified to reduce one more letter:

“Quick brown dogs jump over the lazy fox.”

32 letters, 6 repeated: o (4 times), e (2 times), r (2 times), u (2 times)

“Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.”

32 letters, 6 repeated: i (3 times), o (3 times), e (2 times), u (2 times)

“The five boxing wizards jump quickly.”

31 letters, 5 repeated: i (4 times), e (2 times), u (2 times)

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Top Anagrams

DORMITORY
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

PRESBYTERIAN
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER

DESPERATION
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT

MOTHER-IN-LAW
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER

SNOOZE ALARMS
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z'S

A DECIMAL POINT
When you rearrange the letters:
I'M A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

And for the grand finale

PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA
When you rearrange the letters
(With no letters left over and using each letter only once):
TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Source: wikipedia.org
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Happy New Year 2008