7) Will Peyton Manning retire? (He has come back from injuries and defeats before, and he has adjusted to new teammates and new coaches, but you wonder if Manning can ignore the thought that his best chance to win a second Super Bowl has disappeared. You also wonder if he can ignore the $38 million left on his contract.)8) How are Denver fans reacting to the departure of Broncos head coach John Fox? (As the cliche goes, Fox and the teams general manager werent on the same page. In Denver, fans will be on the GMs page as long as the GM is John Elway.)9) If the Super Bowl matchup is New England vs. Seattle, the meeting of two great coach-quarterback combinations would be fascinating, and Belichick-Brady would rate an edge over Carroll-Wilson. Does that mean the Patriots would be favoured? (Not unless defence doesnt matter, and it does. The Seahawks edge without the football would be greater than the Patriots advantage when Brady has it.)10) Is Rex Ryan a good fit in Buffalo? (I think Ryan is capable of being a bad fit almost anywhere. Tumultuous times follow him, or are caused by him, and the Bills organization is so new and unsettled under owners Terry and Kim Pegula that its hard to say how Ryan will fit. But Bills fans are sure to like a volatile coach who can inspire an aggressive defence. They might really like him if the Bills can find him a quarterback.)11) What is the difference between the Toronto Maple Leafs under Peter Horachek and the Toronto Maple Leafs under Randy Carlyle? (My simplest of answers is this: Fresh air has been added and stale air has been removed and the Leafs are now working harder. However, the change is hardly dramatic until there are more wins than losses under Horachek.)12) Isnt it true that mid-season coaching changes usually dont make much of a difference, if any? (But then there are the exceptions, and when Darryl Sutter replaced Terry Murray as LA Kings coach on December 20, 2011 and wound up lifting the Stanley Cup on June 11, 2012, there was another reminder that dramatic change can occur.)13) Randy Carlyle became the fourth NHL coach fired in the first half of this season. Is that a record? (Not even close. The record was set in 2011-12, when seven coaches were let go by early January. Carlyle was a victim then, as well - released by the Anaheim Ducks.)14) Is it important to discuss the players who are going to the NHL All-Star game, or those who arent going? (No, and no.)15) Is there any other twist to the all-star idea of a game between two teams drafted by the players themselves? (Now that the NFL is doing the same with its Pro Bowl, maybe the football players could draft the hockey teams, and vice versa.)16) Is there an easy way to explain Bill Belichicks "substitution trickery" employed by New England against Baltimore? 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Djokovic, playing his first grass-court tennis of the year, is the top seed at this fortnight, despite being ranked second in the world behind French Open champion and two-time Wimbledon winner Rafael Nadal. "It was a great start," Djokovic said after moving on Monday. Up next for the six-time Grand Slam titlist will be 35-year-old Czech veteran Radek Stepanek. Murray has won 14 straight matches at the AEC, where he captured an Olympic gold medal in 2012 before giving Great Britain its first male Wimbledon singles champion in 77 years last year. Murray entered and exited Centre Court to standing ovations on Day 1. "It was nice," Murray said. "I was nervous this morning, nervous yesterday. Walking through brings back a lot of good memories. I got a nice round of applause and once you sit down in a chair its time to get ready for this year and move on from last year." Among those in the Royal Box for Murrays match were his father and grandparents and former NBA superstar Shaquille ONeal. Murrays new coach, former womens Wimbledon champion Amelie Mauresmo, sat in the front row of the guest box. Up next for Murray will be 23-year-old Slovenian Blaz Rola, who was the 2013 NCAA singles champion while playing at The Ohio State University. Sixth-seeded former Wimbledon runner-up Tomas Berdych joined Djokovic and Murray in the round of 64 with a come-from-behind 6-7 (5-7), 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 victory over Romanian veteran Victor Hanescu, while seventh-seeded David Ferrer held off fellow Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta 6-0, 6-7 (3-7), 6-1, 6-1. 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In other action involving seeds, No. 17 Russian Mikhail Youzhny routed Brit James Ward 6-2, 6-2, 6-1; Aussie Marinko Matosevic served-and-volleyed his way past No. 18 Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2; No. 20 South African Kevin Anderson dismissed Slovenian Aljaz Bedene 6-3, 7-5, 6-2; No. 21 Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov beat Aussie Samuel Groth 7-5, 7-6 (7-2), 7-6 (7-5); Argentine Leonardo Mayer upended No. 25 Italian Andreas Seppi 6-3, 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; No. 26 Croat Marin Cilic got past Frances Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-4, 6-7 (2-7), 6-2, 6-1; No. 27 Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut topped American two-time NCAA singles champion Steve Johnson 6-3, 6-7 (3-7), 6-4, 7-5; and Dutchman Robin Haase doused No. 31 Canadian Vasek Pospisil 7-6 (8-6), 4-6, 7-5, 6-3. The surging Bautista Agut captured his first-ever ATP-level title, on grass, last week in The Netherlands. Several other men advanced, including Stepanek, Rola, Frenchmen Jeremy Chardy and Gilles Simon, Aussie Bernard Tomic, former Aussie Open runner-up Marcos Baghdatis, and German Benjamin Becker, who was the runner-up in The Netherlands last week. Some action was suspended because or rain, as 14th-seeded French star Jo- Wilfried Tsonga was leading Austrian lefty Jurgen Melzer 6-1, 3-6, 3-6, 6-2, 5-4 and Sam Querrey was ahead of fellow American Bradley Klahn 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 6-1, 6-5 when rain started to fall just after 8 p.m. local time. Opening-round matches will come Tuesday for the second-seeded Nadal and seven- time Wimbledon champ Roger Federer. The 14-time Grand Slam winner Nadal will take on Slovak Martin Klizan, while the fourth-seeded former No. 1 and 17-time major titlist Federer will encounter Italian Paolo Lorenzi. Also on the Day 2 schedule will be fifth-seeded Australian Open champ Stan Wawrinka, eighth-seeded Canadian slugger Milos Raonic, ninth-seeded American John Isner, and 10th seed Kei Nishikori of Japan. ' ' '