Agassi: "I hated tennis,"

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        Las Vegas --
It is as if he had meant to shock us anew each week: Andre Agassi was regarded for years as a clean man of tennis. And then this: First, he confesses that he took hard drugs - and now comes the next hammer.
Der Spiegel told the husband of Steffi Graf that he hated tennis.
His father had forced him as a child to the daily training: "I did not want to play and had to. It was the wrong life, it was not mine." And there's more: Tennis, he hated so much that he really missed it even after his retirement. "No victory felt so good as painful defeat." Only his great love Steffi has shown him how he brought balance into his life.
They should have helped him on the contempt of time. Contempt for its major competitors: Boris Becker.
He should in fact be really mean toward him. According to Becker's victory over Agassi in 1995 in the semifinals of Wimbledon, Boris should have said that Agassi is elitist, unpopular among his colleagues and get special treatment from tournament directors. This criticism still hurts Andre: "It was very personal, it left a deep wound."
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The horns are there!

Leverkusen - Do you still have the deafening hum during the Confederations Cup broadcasts in the ear?
This sound as if countless swarms of hornets would have invaded into the stadium? On Saturday, there are in Leverkusen, the sound in a slimmed-Vuvuzela form.
Germany vs. South Africa - in the evening there's a concert horns - and thus a beautifully weird taste of World Cup atmosphere in the next few years. From 10 clock today are the last 1200 tickets available.
For the music on the square will moderate under performance in recent internationals, however, the German team to be responsible.
Against the second-class World Cup host is therefore only a clear victory. Team manager Oliver Bierhoff also trumpeted by the weak game in Azerbaijan (2-0), the goal: "The team has with the fans once again raise the euphoria. We need to re-radiate dominance against smaller opponents, and reloading once, if we start early lead. "From early on because of steam: The fans want to see compelling 90 minutes.
Captain Michael Ballack knows: "We have to improve considerably if we want to play 2010 at the World Cup title. We must show with two good games against South Africa and Azerbaijan that we are in the group right ahead of Russia in the first place. "
In Moscow, stands on 10 October is expected the final to win the group in World Cup qualification on. For the Germans want to be prepared - and after all managed to blow through deep qualification to next year then zudröhnen by the horns to let. The entrainment of the Vuvuzelas, the deafening Tröte the South African fans will be on Saturday, moreover, only an exceptional basis.
The DFB is granted "for reasons of folklore" means a special permit for the 62-centimeter-long noisy - even if coach Jogi Löw did not do so: "I would abolish the Vuvuzelas if it somehow be possible. Over time, the extremely annoying. "
The trumpets will be heard, but definitely in 2010, which made it clear FIFA boss Sepp Blatter. Rather, yogis boys could blow the South Africans today, the march! Whether it will work? DFB official head of the delegation is now the way forward legend Uwe Seeler. And sounds like Vuvuzela times already ...
So the fan song from South Africa - watch the clip sounds HERE!

"Take it off"

That's the point: "Order is half the battle - the other half is me, but better!" He who lives by this motto, and which itself is already irritated, sooner or later stumble over the classic "Take it off!" Rita Pohle. At nearly 200 pages, there are ideas for ways out of the chaos and disorder. In principle, the advice is simple: throw away much as possible, we do not need as much as we think!
So is it: The book is really useful tips and also goes into detail. The content is not particularly surprising, but something about "decluttering" believes we do not always so clearly. So is "Take it off!" a useful guide for all who want to have more room and time to feel in your own four walls had almost crushed. Morbid Messies it helps but does not - that also says Rita Pohle clear in the book. Only the esoteric themed chapter on "smoking out of space" I've skipped - to sowas I do not think so right that is lifted off me. The rest reads well, easy and helps! And now the book is gone ...
"Take it off"
Heyne Verlag, EUR 7.95, 208 pages, ISBN: 978-3453650107
(by Florian Meyer)

Amok fish suggests young people unconscious

Arkansas - There should be a beautiful day at the lake. But for Seth R. (15) it ended in the hospital.
The boy could be drawn into a floating tire behind a boat on the Lake Chicot in Arkansas.
Suddenly, an Asian silver carp leaped from the water, broke the 15-year-old pine. He collapsed unconscious in his tires.
Seth immediately went into a hospital and underwent surgery. Since the defection, he suffers from back pain - a consequence of the collision.
The carp were introduced in the 70s in the United States to rid the water of algae. But they are increasingly developing into a problem. Increasingly, clashes are reported with the leaping shadows.
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Rheinblick blame for accidents?

Cologne - Three times in recent weeks, it crashed hard on the Zoobrücke.
Times overturned a car driver, sometimes crashing into a lamppost. Curious here: The cars are always so after the accident, as if the victim parked her in the direction of the Rhine promenade. Thus the motto: If even the box is junk, then it must at least look towards the cathedral.
But what actually is, said an official of the Commissariat Transport: "The cars slam sideways against the building and turn it. They usually stand out and "fly" with one axle on the increase, then remain standing perpendicular to the roadway. Seldom has a car is really in the same direction after a collision. "