Nobody asks a first-grade kid to run around an adult-sized soccer field. Budding basketball players often learn on miniature courts with 8-foot baskets. Little Leaguers play on fields where, on just the right day, they can put one over the fence. So John.Why don’t kids start with small court? (San Francisco Chronicle)

Baltimore Sun – A British online gambling company voided all bets on Davydenko’s match against 87th-ranked Martin Vassallo Arguello in Poland . His theory: Someone had inside information that he’d been hurting, and thought, “Sell all your houses and everything, you .U.S. Open: Venus advances to semis

Daily Telegraph – Goethe, in the theory of colour he published in 1810, celebrates an invisible creator who is a painter – or who at least . with a baffling scene: an unknown man watches an unknown woman jesting with the unknowable future at a gambling table .And God created the artist . . . or was it the other way around?