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Associated Press UPDATE BELOW Everyone except for the humorless Roger Federer enjoyed Joker’s player impersonations, that’s why I thought it was a shame when he stopped doing them. Stopped until Monday night, that is. After his surprisingly easy win over Radek Stepanek, a mischievous Nolle tried to lure coach and NY fan favorite Todd Martin onto […]
September 1, 2009
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, […]
August 31, 2009
Brad Gilbert has always been a good commentator, but as he proved once again today, he is much better when he sticks to Xs & Os and forgets the hype. At the end of James Blake‘s uninspired win against Rueben Ramirez-Hidalgo, Gilbert stunned this watcher (and Cliff Drysdale) by proclaiming that Blake has to like […]
May 28, 2009
ESPN’s tennis coverage is generally excellent. (Though as yet unrated for the 09 French) ESPN’s tennis writers are mediocre to good. (That they all write for tennis magazine isn’t a great sign, is it?) ESPN’s headline writers have always been pretty bad. Wednesday’s bad headlines on Sharapova deserve comment because they don’t give her […]
July 5, 2008
Ever notice how many “sportswriters” are busy clogging up the airwaves at ESPN? Of course you did, to watch that channel is to see sportswriters trying to make themselves famous by yelling like blowhards about things they know nothing about. At least when it comes to other sports, they may have a passing idea of […]
June 23, 2008
I’m many days late with my French Open wrap-up, so let’s skip it for now and maybe I’ll get back to it. What you need to know now is where to follow Wimbledon on tv, from the computer and on the radio. Let’s categorize them by good, better and best. GOOD: ESPN, Year 1 Monday […]
June 2, 2008
Not to be outdone, some random ESPN-anchor bonehead wearing too much makeup over his fake tan came up with this gem yesterday: The French Open has never been kind to the Americans. Actually, that’s a flat-out lie and it only reinforces the whiny-baby attitude that our current US players adopt every time they’re forced to […]
Passing Shots 
September 8, 2009
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