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August 31, 2009
Can something be half-baked and overblown? Yes. Tonight’s matches featuring Andy Roddick and Serena Williams will be preceded by a gala honoring David Robinson, Mia Hamm and Andre Agassi for their philanthropy. Music will be provided by the O’Jays and Rob Thomas (Why? Insert rolling eyes here) One definition of half-baked is “íll-conceived.” That nicely […]
February 3, 2009
At the end of 2008 I thought Roger was ok with his status as world #2. I thought the fall had been jarring to him, but that he ultimately was embracing the less-pressure inherent in the second spot. But from the moment he showed up in Australia I knew he was still in deep denial. […]
July 17, 2008
That video of Pete Sampras on the Charlie Rose show is not available yet, so let’s look back in the time capsule to December 19, 1996. The number 1 ranked player is Pete Sampras. He is 25 and has eight majors. You can tell it’s the 1990s because he’s wearing a flannel shirt. His coach […]
July 13, 2008
Above: The Reebok pump shoe. Chang’s Reebok ad slams Nike and “those rock and roll” tennis guys. Hmm wonder who that referred to? Chang was inducted into the Hall of Fame today. It made at least one blogger scratch his head and wonder why. Sean Randall wants to know why Thomas Muster and Sergi Brugera […]
May 28, 2008
While I was watching and not writing, Justine Henin abruptly retired, just one week after waxing poetic about how much she was looking forward to the French Open. This one was a shocker, but somehow also not. Justine was always the type of player you couldn’t read, she was famously closed off from the world […]
January 22, 2008
Nike made a fairly big deal out of Serena’s new thigh-covering spandex bike pants, yet no one noted that we’ve seen this before, with Agassi. You can attribute that to Aggasi dumping Nike for Adidas a few years ago, after Nike refused to give Agassi money for his charity. Nike. Still dumb after all these […]
Passing Shots 
First Night at the Open: ESPN Gets an A-
September 1, 2009
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The Four-Letter has come a long way over the last three years. So far, in fact, that I was quite pleased to see the network take the US Open away from USA Network, which had grown complacent. The multiplicity of voices on ESPN works for me. The jury is still out on host Hannah Storm, […]