for more than a0 years, tom hicks has been coming to this tennis club near wakefield.ow aged 99 he still plays three times a week all year round. for me it is the fresh air, the friendship and it is good for you. it is good for my figure, as you. it is good for my figure, as you call it. how hard is it on the body at 99? i never noticed, ijust kept going. the final of the men's singles. there are not many people left who remember this. tom was 15 when fred perry won his first wimbledon in 193a. ten years later during world war ii, he was part of the assault on an. it was only after returning home that he took up a sport that he has loved ever since. in those days it was all wooden rackets and the court was all rough and we had coloured balls instead of yellow and grey. playing three times a week at 99 is pretty impressive, but tom has still got some way to go if he is going to get into the record books. according to guinness world records the world's oldest tennis player was a mexican man who reached the tender age of 101. what a shock! if you are getting older, it isa

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dodgeball will come up is taking place at madison square garden here in new york earlier we spoke to tom hicks and the president of the will dodgeball association he said the school's ambitions were stretching as far as the i'm limping game it's. obviously we are growing a sport that he's becoming much more serious in the sense that we have sixty two national federations nova sixty seven point five million people. us they don't fall in weekly competition on a local grassroots level all national or international competition at a high performance level but what we saw will come in body we embrace the movie as if they've got us how to significant really raise the profile of this bolt it's grown significantly we when we started the world dodgeball association back in october two thousand and thirteen we brought together thirty five countries across three continents and since then in a very short period of time in just over four hot years we've grown to sixty two national federations across six continents are already embedded within the olympic movement program one of our objectives within not just

the world now earlier i had a chance to speak to the president of the world dodgeball association tom hicks and he told me how not only the movie but social media has helped to grow the game he also talked about dodgeball is long term ambitions. obviously we are growing a small studies becoming much more serious in the sense that we have sixty two national federations nova sixty seven point five million people. they don't fall in weekly competition on a local grassroots level all national or international competition at a high performance level well we say welcome in body we embrace the moves yes obviously that is how it suits a sickness come through it raise the profile of this bolt and also obviously games that we played in in school or in various different educational departments they help also to develop the skills and necessary parts with an dodgeball it's grown significantly we when we start to the well don't quote so say sure back in october two thousand and thirteen we brought together thirty five countries across three continents which was the americas the asia pacific the europe e

tom hicks is on the board, well known investor, former head of dallas reserve.was a good company to be in. we talk so much about corporate governance. we criticize it a lot. i have thought the next step maybe should be corporate governance because boards need help. i think they need help with messaging. and how does whatever they are going to do play in the media and how it will be received. >> this board will get a -- the conversation is not going to air. what was your favorite story or the one you are most proud of? >> the greek financial crisis was an incredible challenge to try to explain. economists will always come on and say greece will have to go through a fiscal deficit and fiscal adjustment. it means cutting budgets. there are massive recessions. to try to translate economic speak into what it means for people on the ground was super important to me. the most important interview to me was milton freedman. it was fantastic. >> i will say for all of us, we are teary eyed because we are going to miss you. >> i'm going to miss you, too, so much. it has bee

. >> and when do you start >> september 1, i join the board of benificent out of texas tom hicks, famoush. >> good man. >> i would have had tears, but i have no tears left, because tomorrow, you know, it goes off to college which i can't believe people do this for a living, where everybody does that? not to change subjects, but i have no tears left because that's -- >> your daughter's going off to college tomorrow >> yeah. >> oh, my god. >> i don't know how that works >> i remember when he was born >> it's what we've been working for, but now i'm thinking, i don't know >> never mind! >> yeah, a gap year. what about -- i don't know >> all right >> mwah. >> michelle, thank you, you've made us all verklempt. >> you didn't cry. why didn't you cry >> i am crying you interrupted my crying. i was about to get into a whole crying thing >> you don't want to thank -- i mean, you don't want to thank me for keeping you from crying on tv >> thank you i was prepared to cry. >> you want to conjure up -- >> i'm not trying to conjure anything it's natural >> i think that peta story, i saw some tears earl

myself, hope hicks, donald trump, and paul manafort. by monday, story leaked. tom from the dallas morning news? vice president tense, his pack is donated money to pete sessions it will hurt campaign. republicanhe three districts in texas that hillary clinton one. how much does the focus on those districts create concerned of those trends could hold? what are the chances the vice president could expand his map in texas? >> we are focused squarely on those districts. they're probably the most critical force. at the race, you look at his opponent, and you look at where former chairman of the in rcc, he understands how difficult this is. ands out campaigning hard you're going to see the vice president in that district. i think he's got an unexpectedly good challenger to ted cruz on the statewide level. someone who has raised a lot of money and has support. i think ted will rate -- when that race. but it's going to require us to put more effort into texas. it's the place where we don't want to be as republicans because we are playing defense and not offense. ist of the