What’s a Summer Without the US Open Series?

We are now officially in the midst of the US Open Tennis Series where 200 tennis players from around the world will treat us to sand in-the-eye fashion choices of the companies that endorse them. Unless, of course, you are Bethanie Mattek and have your own special brand of this is what a tennis dress looks like after an evening [read more...]

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...]

Race and Sports: Maybe If the Cards are Laid Out on the Table…?

Racism, the 21st century version, is as insidious as it has been at any point in U.S. history. Gone are the days of knowing which side of the tracks to live to distinguish white and black. Gone are the days of knowing that for a black person, to cross those tracks is to cross at one's own peril. Though those [read more...]