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Jay DiMartino at About.com has written scores of articles for beginning to advanced surfers that teach maneuvers, surfboard care, and wave forecasting. Here you will find a surf instruction article focusing on how to correctly bash, hit, and whack the lip of a wave.

Kevin Youkilis lined a run-scoring single to center field in the ninth, ending a brilliant pitching duel between Roy Halladay and Jon Lester and giving the Boston Red Sox a 1-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night.Halladay (2-4) retired the first two batters in the inning before walking David Ortiz. Manny Ramirez looped a single to center, sending Ortiz to second. Youkilis then hit the ball in front of center fielder Vernon Wells and Ortiz chugged around third.But instead of a close play at the plate, he scored easily as Wells dropped the ball.

Hit for average and for the fences? Even the sweet- swinging Joe Mauer will have trouble pulling that off.

Kevin Youkilis lined a run-scoring single to center field in the ninth, ending a brilliant pitching duel between Roy Halladay and Jon Lester and giving the Boston Red Sox a 1-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays Tuesday night.

Kevin Youkilis lined a run-scoring single to center field in the ninth, ending a brilliant pitching duel between Roy Halladay and Jon Lester and giving the Boston Red Sox a 1-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night.

This is the third in a 3-part series, by Bernard Lunn, on the new Web. Part 1 was The Whatchamacallit, Post Recession Phase Transition, Part 2 was The Emerging Main Street Web.The new Web era is about the mainstream. This is when millions of small businesses and digital free agents make a good living by providing better products to a much more savvy market. This is the point in the Crossing the Chasm model when all the innovation stops, start-ups get consolidated into a few mega players and it all gets a bit boring until the next wave of innovation hits us.The Chasm model applies to the discrete waves of innovation and consolidation in specific technology markets that Moore was describing. It is less applicable today when the market is the Internet and the Internet touches the lives of billions of people every day; and is the primary communications, work and media tool for hundreds of millions of people. That market cannot consolidate down to a few players.Nobody controls the

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The Suns' playoff run is over -- and so is Mike D'Antoni's tenure in Phoenix, reports Jack McCallum.

'This is a confidence builder. It indicates and proves to you that we can play with these guys' Tampa Bay Rays' Jason Bartlett is hit in the helmet by a pitch by a Manny Delcarmen pitch in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox. via Slam Sports

Rockies SP Aaron Cook allowed two unearned runs and 10 hits in seven innings during Tuesday's 3-2 win against the Giants. Cook walked two and struck out three for his fourth consecutive win. He has now allowed more than three earned runs in his last five starts and dropped his ERA to 2.41.