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Connors's first album followed three years later, featuring one of his hit songs, Bud the Spud.
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There was plenty of beautiful tennis today, but a wild and maddening and triumphant career like Jimmy Connors's will never happen again.
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The prosecution has appealed against all sentences except Brida Connors's.
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That means if you're playing tennis, he's going to be dressed like Jimmy Connors, or maybe even Rod Laver.
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Federer shares the Open-era record for most U.S. Open victories with Sampras and Connors, having clinched his fifth crown in 2008 when he beat young pretender Andy Murray in the final.
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Connors had already taken a public scolding for a personal detail in his book about his youthful relationship with the great women's champion Chris Evert, and there was something very Connors-ian about this episode, the barreling forward, and to heck with the blowback.
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Federer's victory was his 52nd career title and he joins Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe and Pete Sampras among players to have been world number one four times in as many years.
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They are as formidable and as entangled a trio as tennis has ever witnessed as silly as it is to get into generational comparisons, it's fair to say that the great three of Borg, McEnroe and Connors (26 combined Slams) are on the run, in their flowing hair and short-shorts.
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That's more than Nadal has played Federer and only four fewer times than John McEnroe played Jimmy Connors (Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras also met 34 times).
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In a simultaneous raid, Miley's father-in-law William, aged 52, and mother-in-law Mary Connors, 48, known as Brida, were arrested at The Willows site in Staverton, Gloucestershire.
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