1. Roger’s hypothetical faux-slam. Seriously people, he hasn’t won three in a row yet, but you’re already hyping him up for Australia and four in a row, which is being called the completion of a Grand Slam? Some nerve. Martina Navratilova completed the faux-slam but didn’t get credit for it… because it isn’t a grand […]
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 […]
September 7, 2009
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