The Green Clay of Wimbledon

Congratulations to Wimbledon. I hope the tournament officials of the All-English Club are happy. Sunday they got a nearly five hour tennis match that, for the television viewer who began watching at eight a.m. promptly, took up their entire morning and most of their afternoon. It was sad, though, that International Tennis Hall of Famer Bud Collins was not on hand [read more...]

Rafael Nadal, Big Brown, Memes and Us

Phillippe Chartrier. The name must make all male players not named Rafael Nadal break out in hives, at least when their names are matched up against him. As he dispatched of first Novak Djokovic (and from watching the match it was obvious that Nadal thought Novak was "going away at 6-2, 6-4, 3-0) and then Roger Federer, 6-1, 6-3, 6-0, [read more...]