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Roger Federer and Andy Roddick will fight for the Wimbledon crown for the third time in six years. This is also the first time since the abolition of the challenge round in 1922 that a player has reached five consecutive finals. Federer is also on the verge of creating a record if he wins the title. This will be a record fifteenth title. Roddick had a cake walk in the semifinals beating Tom Haas in straight sets. He has now won 18 consecutive matches on grass courts and his seventh final in a row. On the other hand Federer is now tied with Pete Sampras both having registered 14 grand slam titles and if he wins this year’s Wimbledon final will become the highest grand slam winner. This also becomes the 20 grand slam finals for Federer. If Federer gains the title he would also regain the number one spot in the ranking which is currently held by Nadal. Rafael Nadal who was the champion last year missed this year tournament due to a knee problem. Federer feels that he is under lesser pressure this time that his arch rival is not playing the tournament and his fans are awaiting to see his new record

The public memorial service of the king of pop Michael Jackson is expected to be highly watched by the people all over the world. The funeral service will be telecasted through the web services and also through the television channels. The media coverage for this service is expected to be very large. The Los Angeles public memorial service will be held on Tuesday to mourn the death of the pop king. The estimate about the number of the people watching the webcast to follow the Michael Jackson’s memorial service is unclear. The total number of the people watching the web cast is very difficult to be predicted. Some people estimate that this could attract more than ten million people will be watching the telecast in different regions of the world. The number of the people watching the service can be inline with the total television audience for the funeral service of Kennedy. Though the people interest towards the legendary pop singer has always been on the higher side, there is also a strong possibility that the telecast viewing audience can come down due to the summer season factor. Normally in the summer months there is a strong decline in the number of the telecast viewers.

A powerful sedative named diprivan has been found in the residence of Michael Jackson. Meanwhile the law enforcement agency has been preparing for the funeral of Mr. Jackson who dies last week due to Heart attack. The police are expecting more than 70000 people to attend the funeral but there are only about 17000 free tickets available for the ceremony. There will not be a procession through the city and people have been advised to stay back home and watch the funeral on television. Since a powerful drug has been found in Jacksons residence there is likely to be a investigation. The drug which is normally used in operation theatres as a sedative is always given intravenously during surgeries. Moreover the drug is not found in public residences. Jackson had been using painkillers and sedatives. The investigation would be done to see if he had been overly dosed and action would be taken depending upon the results. There are also doubts of whether he had been deliberately overdosed. Murray who is the singer’s physician has said he has not done anything wrong and said that he did not prescribe any painkillers for Jackson which was considered to cause the singers death.

The Manchester United has signed a pay as you play deal with the forward Michael Owen. This deal came as a surprise even as Owen has his share of injury troubles. He was not able to play much of the last year’s season for which he had signed a deal as a forward for Newcastle. After finishing his medical examination of his troublesome knee Qwen returned to the Carrington training ground of Manchester United. Owen who scored only ten goals for the Newcastle team last season said he himself was surprised on the deal. He missed the pre season training last year and he wants to make sure he joins his new club right from day one. He also hopes that old Trafford could make May for his return to goal scoring and he will be playing alongside his English team mate Wayne Rooney. He has scored 40 goals in 89 games he has appeared for England. People said he has surpassed his peak period of play but he hopes to prove otherwise. According the coach he is strong player who comes back after tough periods. The Manchester united hopes that is true and that he will be at his best this season

The eight time major champion Andre Agassi has decided to join the world team tennis league. Billie Jean King who is the co founder of the league traveled to his Las Vegas residence and gave him a offer to join his league. Agassi will be laying for the Philadelphia freedoms. His first match will be against Boston at home on July 10. He said he wanted to engage himself into sport and this league gave him an opportunity to do so. He will make his debut along with Michael Chang and Kim Clijsters. Chang will be playing for the capitals while Clijsters will be playing for the St Louis. They all will be joining star players like Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Maria Sharapova, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe. The WTT is a support league to WTA and US tennis Association and is aiming to provide the necessary support for small kids and youth tennis players to become the best tennis players. They want to find out the best talents at a very young age and want to see six year old starting to play tennis. The current commissioner of WTT is Ilana Ross.

The scientists have found that the ocean country of Australia was once home to the dinosaurs. They have named the dinosaurs that were present there as autralovenators. They are thought to be carnivorous with three huge claws in each forelimbs used to catch prey. They are said to have weighed around 1100 pounds stalking the Australian outback. Two more species have also been found which herbivores are. All these three types have thought to have been present in the world some 145 million years ago. The meat eating dinosaur was named banjo and is important because it is the first of carnivorous dinosaurs which has been found with full skeleton. The previous ones which were found before were all found using single bone or tooth. The winton area is where the remains of dinosaur have been found for the last 100 years. The banjo was so light and agile and was also able to run fast so that it can be compared to a cheetah of his time. Earlier in order to find the fossils more than three feet of sand had to be bulldozed in order to unearth the fossils of these dinosaurs.

North Korea has successfully test fired the missile on the east coast of the country. The missile was test fired on Thursday. This missile is the third type of the scud missile that is being test fired by the country. The missile is capable of reaching a distance of up to 300 km to 500 km. Prior to the test fire of various kinds of missiles; they issued a warning to all the marine travelers in that region and asked them to stay away from the warning area. The South Korean security and also the intelligence department had predicted that the North Korea has about seven hundred or more number of the missile for its defense operations. Experts predicts that the various kinds of the missiles could be for the defense operations is the future time and might also be the part of the routine and the normal military activity of the north Korean country. There were about four numbers of the kind of the missiles that was test fired on Thursday. The nuclear tension between the North Korean and the South Korean country increased as a result of this test fire. The North Korean officials did not offer any comments regarding this issue.