Clijsters to play Henin at 40,000-capacity stadium

BRUSSELS: Belgian rivals Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin will try to assemble the biggest tennis crowd ever when then play an exhibition match in Brussels at the 40,000-capacity King Baudouin Stadium on July 8.

If the 34,000 tickets are sold and all 6,000 invitees show up for the evening match, it will easily beat the 30,492 fans who attended the 1973 “Battle of the Sexes”” between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs at the Houston Astrodome.

“We can do this together, so why not break this record,”” Henin said Tuesday.

Clijsters, who has won two U.S. Open titles, and Henin, a seven-time Grand Slam champion, both came back from retirement over the past year and have shot back into prominence. Clijsters won at Flushing Meadows last fall and Henin reached the final of the Australian Open this year.

“It is extraordinary. It is almost surreal,”” said Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme, whose government backs the match as a quintessential Belgian statement. “When I talk to world leaders, whether it is in China or the United States, they talk about Kim and Justine.””

The scene of their match at the stadium used for Belgium”s national football team and the Van Damme track meet as a tennis court will only add to that.

Usually a 50,000-seat stadium, 10,000 seats will be sacrificed for a huge television screen to be set up to make sure all fans can see every detail of Henin”s famed backhand or Clijsters” power drive.

The players, too, will revel in the extraordinary conditions.

“It will be very emotional,”” Clijsters said. “It is so much bigger than what we are used to. And, on top, we can break the record.””

Beating the “Battle of the Sexes”” record will not have the social connotations of King”s 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 win over Riggs, when she made a bold statement for a whole generation of women in the United States.

Organizer Bob Verbeeck said King would be invited as an honorary umpire.

This time, the match marks the opening of Belgium”s six-month presidency of the European Union.

Belgium is no stranger to big tennis events. For years, the14,000-capacity Sports Palace in Antwerp drew more than 100,000 people in one week to the Diamond Games tournament.

Tickets to the “Best of Belgium”” match will go for euro20 ($27) oreuro 25 ($34), with profits going to humanitarian causes backed by the two players.

It was still uncertain what surface the two players would have to perform on. Henin excels on clay and Clijsters on hard courts, and a split of the two surfaces might still be picked, Verbeeck said.

Clijsters already has some experience playing special matches. Last year, she was among a handful of stars inaugurating the retractable roof on Centre Court at Wimbledon.

Inter-Milan beat defending champions Barcelona

SAN SIRO: Inter Milan came from behind to beat holders Barcelona 3-1 in Italy and take control of their European Champions League football semi-final.

Barca went ahead after 19 minutes through a Pedro goal, before Wesley Sneijders levelled on 30 minutes.

Maicon put the homeside ahead just after the break before Diego Milito sealed the tie on the hour.

The result gives Barca a mountain to climb in the second leg in Catalonia next week as they seek to become the first team since AC Milan in 1990 to defend their European Cup trophy.

Bayern Munich and Lyon meet in their semi-final first leg match tomorrow.

Sesame Street Google Images

Sesame Street Google images and Sesame Street Google logos .

Sesame Street Google images and Sesame Street Google logos. Sesame Street is turning forty and no one is celebrating it better than the best and biggest search engine of the world Google. For last several days Google has been putting Sesame Street doodle on its website.Sesame Street is an American educational children’s television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. Sesame Street is well known for its Muppets characters created by Jim Henson.

It premiered on November 10, 1969, and is the longest running children’s program on US television.

The show is produced in the United States by the non-profit organization Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW), founded by Joan Ganz Cooney and Ralph Rogers. The show has been running for 40 years.

Keeping up its habit of baffling users with playfully odd doodles and design-quirks to remind them about historical events, the ‘Googlle’ logo succeeded in drawing everyone’s attention to its eleventh birthday.

Given that the very name Google had originated for a misspelling of the word ‘googol’ meaning 10100, there’s no reason to be wonderstruck at the doodles. It’s another matter that the word later found place in English dictionaries as a verb.

Founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two research scholars at Stanford University in California, the search engine in no time grew from search tool on the university website into an undisputed giant in the web search and advertising. The world’s most visited website today amasses billions of dollars from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services and interestingly, from selling ad-free versions of the same technologies as well.

Quinn Gray Audio Tape

Quinn Gray Audio Tape: Attorneys for 37-year-old Quinn Gray, who claims she was abducted and held for four days in captivity, are taking to the media trail to defend their client against allegations that her abductor, a 25-year-old Bosnian immigrant, was actually her lover, and that she invented the scheme to extort $50,000.00 from her husband, Reid. Quinn Gray and Jasmin Osmanovic have both been charged with extortion. But two of her lawyers appeared on TODAY Tuesday to share with us all the facts: more info: Examiner

Quinn Gray Audio Tape:Attorneys for 37-year-old Quinn Gray, who claims she was abducted and held for four days in captivity, are taking to the media trail to defend their client against allegations that her abductor, a 25-year-old Bosnian immigrant, was actually her lover, and that she invented the scheme to extort $50,000.00 from her husband, Reid.

Quinn Gray and Jasmin Osmanovic have both been charged with extortion. But two of her lawyers appeared on TODAY Tuesday to share with us all the facts:

more info:Examiner

World Series Schedule 2009Series

World Series Schedule 2009Series, The World Series is just around the corner, so find the World Series Schedule 2009 now, so you remember when it comes to full power on you. I mean, it seems her to the Yankees against the defending champion Phillies. One team is the richest and most famous in the world and the other is a young team defend their title.

Anyways, I just do not want anything Jinx (even though I have already), but unless something drastic happens, I think both going to make it.

But the World Series Schedule 2009 starts next week and it is as follows:

Game 1 – NL @ AL – Wednesday Oct. 28th
Game 2 – NL @ AL – Thursday Oct. 29th
Game 3 – AL @ NL – Saturday Oct. 31st
Game 4 – AL @ NL – Sunday Nov. 1st
Game 5 (if necessary) – AL @ NL – Monday Nov. 2nd
Game 6 (if necessary) – NL @ AL – Wednesday Nov. 4th
Game 7 (if necessary) – NL @ AL – Thursday Nov. 5th

That about wraps on the entire World Series Schedule and Dates 2009.

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World Series Schedule 2009Series was first posted on October 22, 2009 at 11:57 am.