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Jake Thomases has covered baseball, hockey, girls basketball, and girls
soccer for the Journal News since arriving in 2003. He previously interned
at The Poughkeepsie Journal while attending Vassar College. He is socking
money away under his mattress to buy the Knicks, at which time he will trade Jerome James to Cleveland for a ham sandwich.
E-mail Jake Thomases at jtthomas@lohud.com
Novak Djokovic’s four-set win over Andy Roddick was interesting enough before the postgame. Then Djokovic, the No. 3 player in the world, took swipes at Roddick after the match, earning a shower of boos from the crowd. Suddenly it became really interesting.
Unknown to everyone, Djokovic had been ticked off by comments made by Roddick two [...]
Forecasts are grim for Saturday. Hurricane Hanna may be sitting off the coast of the southern states but its effects will reach New York. We’re supposed to get heavy rain and wind starting in the wee hours and lasting all day.
This is no sprinkling the players can dance around. Unless the hurricane changes course drastically [...]
Well that was anticlimactic. One game into the third set and it’s all over at Ashe. Steve Darcis of Belgium waved the match to an end, handing James Blake a forfeit victory in their second round match. Darcis’s back locked up early in the day until he felt he couldn’t continue.
I asked him what he would have done [...]
There are plenty of big sporting events I’ve never been to. I’ve never been to the Masters. Never been to the Super Bowl. Never been to the World Jai Alai championships (if there is such a thing). But I have to say, the layout here at the Open is as impressive as I’ve seen anywhere.
The [...]
Harold Gutmann Harold Gutmann joined The Journal News in 2002 after graduating from Duke University. He currently focuses on high school sports — he has covered state championship games in 10 different sports. READ MORE
Jane McManus Jane McManus has covered sports at The Journal News for eight years, writing about everything from the Final Four and the U.S. Open to rock climbing. READ MORE
Josh Thomson Josh, who is 26 and a native of Carmel, graduated from Boston University in 2002 and began working for The Journal News the following March. READ MORE
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