The big-serving Croatian beat ninth seed Richard Krajicek in a marathon match, eventually taking the final set 15-13.
His next opponent with be American Tim Smyczek, who beat big-serving Croat Ivo Karlovic 6-4 7-6 (7-5) 7-5.
The Huskies will face Louisville in the title game Tuesday night, and it will be an all-Big East affair after the Cardinals rallied to beat California 64-57 in the other semifinal.
Kastine Evans, who hit the big 3-pointer to help beat Delaware in the regional semifinals had just two points on 1 of 9 shooting.
Despite taking a four-week break from the game, Federer looked sharp as he secured breaks in the fourth game of the first set and the seventh of the second to beat the big-serving Isner.
We always believe we can beat the big guns - there's no point in playing if you don't.
Hewitt is likely to be tested yet further in the third round where he faces big-serving Taylor Dent, who beat Nicolas Almagro 6-3 6-2 4-6 7-5.
Pat Connaughton scored 18 points on six 3-pointers and Jack Cooley had two big offensive rebounds in Notre Dame's game-changing run as the 24th-ranked Fighting Irish beat No. 12 Marquette 73-65 on Thursday night to reach the Big East tournament semifinals for the fourth straight year.
EMC's ten-year shareholder returns are pretty lousy (-13% annualized), but in the past five years Tucci beat all but four of his big-cap tech peers with 10% annual earnings growth.
Syracuse (30-9) made the Big East tournament final, losing to Louisville, then beat Montana, California, top-seeded Indiana, and third-seeded Marquette in NCAA regional play.
Spanish big-spenders Real Madrid, incredibly, then beat that English figure on their own in the off-season.
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Moreover, today's big mergers may give birth to hard-to-beat Internet learning partnerships, according to Clark Aldridge, an education analyst at Gartner Group (IT) .
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North Carolina squandered a big lead before holding on to beat Villanova 78-71, and then the Jayhawks watched Western Kentucky do everything it could to spring one more upset.
Pat Connaughton scored a season-high 21 points and led Notre Dame's impressive show from 3-point range as the 24th-ranked Fighting Irish beat Rutgers 69-61 on Wednesday night in the second round of the Big East tournament.
Three cheers for e-book beat writer Marion Maneker over at The Big Money for pointing out what the media is missing and what should be obvious to anyone in the publishing business.
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"Definitely a big confidence booster, " Buchholz said after Boston beat New York 7-4 on a cold Wednesday night.
One time in 1970, Purdue's Rick Mount poured in 61 points against Iowa and the Hawkeyes still beat the Boilermakers, 108-107, to clinch the Big Ten title.
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The Huskies, determined not to lose at home, beat Syracuse 66-58 two weeks ago in the last Big East game between those heated rivals and took the Hoyas to double overtime Wednesday night before losing 79-78.
He will play big-serving Kevin Anderson in the Sydney semifinals after the 36th-ranked South African beat Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin 6-4 6-3.
The eclectic mix of blues-rock and psychedelic-funk tracks includes "Mojo Man" which opens with a big Ronettes beat before lurching into a Memphis horn grind.
Which is one big reason why risk-averse Wells Fargo ( WFC) and US Bancorp ( USB) beat the stuffing out of bigger banks loaded down with investment banking operations.
The Big Ten also lost the first bowl game of 2011, when Texas Tech beat Northwestern 45-38 in the TicketCity Bowl, and dropped its most meaningful when TCU beat Wisconsin 21-19 in the Rose Bowl.
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Playing with a big cushion after a 4-0 win in the first leg at home last week, Bayern beat Barcelona 3-0 in the second leg Wednesday night on goals by Arjen Robben in the 48th minute and Thomas Mueller in the 76th around Gerard Pique's own goal in the 72nd.
Consider that Mr Obama, who ran a pretty good campaign in 2008, beat John McCain, who didn't, by 192 electoral-college votes, a big number but not a landslide.
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From a technology perspective, I'm curious about how this struck you because a lot of stores - big box stores, for example - encourage customers to price compare and they say, we'll match or beat whatever price you see elsewhere.
Murray will play Radek Stepanek after the Czech beat American John Isner 6-4 6-7 6-3 in a showdown of the big servers.
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