Sports

Dear Doug, I’d heard there were people like you out there, people making the argument that Wimbledon should do away with the “play until it’s settled”, no-tiebreaker 5th set (just like the French Open, and the Australian Open), so I Googled around a bit and found your article, “Wimbledon: John Isner, Nicolas Mahut and...
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You guys remember the “Aggressive Margin“,  yes?  Well  like you, I was curious to apply it to the Isner/Mahut match, to see what it looked like.  Here it is: Longest Match Ever Played Mahut (FRA) Isner (USA) 1st Serve % 328 of 489 = 67 % 361 of 491 = 74 % Aces 103...
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“Quite Remarkable”.  That’s what one of the commentators said during the 3rd and final phase of the EPIC match between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut. “Quite Remarkable”, eh?  OK, fair enough.  I don’t have any better words to describe it, and neither do you.  Because words – language – is limited, and there...
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The most incredible tennis match in the history of tennis is probably going to come to an anti-climactic end tomorrow (Thurs, 6/24) on Court #18 at Wimbledon, but that’s no reason not to watch it. The broadcasters and sports-writers covering it ran out of superlatives long before they suspended play (again) today, and eventually...
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Editor’s note:  this was supposed to run on Thursday, but we had to upgrade our database, so my apologies for our delay. Hey, kids, it’s March! Time to start the madness! Yeah, that’s about as enthusiastic as you’re going to see me get about March Madness…unless, of course, my team makes it to the...
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Madness indeed. Dear ESPN, I have two words for you: F*#&  you, f*#@ “March Madness”, and f#@$  basketball in general.  And f#$% the horse you rode in on for good measure.  And Peter Cetera too.  Just because. Hi, I’m a fan of college wrestling, and if I seem somewhat bitter about ESPN, as well...
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Here it comes. March Madness.  The Big Dance.  The NCAA basketball tournament.  Doesn’t matter what you call it, for a lot of us it is an unwelcome intrusion into our March television watching schedule.  Those sportscaster types always like to allude to “the agony of defeat.”  Agony?  I’ll show you agony.  Who amongst us...
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This Sunday, Feb 14th, 2010, NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing) fans will tune in to watch the 52nd running of “The Great American Race”; 500 miles of white-knuckle, high-octane, edge-of-your-seat advertisements & commercials ad nauseum racing.  To put that in context, 500 miles is the distance (“as the crow flies”) from...
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Well, it’s over, and I miss it already. Seems like only yesterday the first grand-slam of 2010 was getting underway, and now here we are, two weeks later with a new women’s champion (congratulations Serena, even if I wasn’t rooting for you.  You dug yourself a deep hole with your deplorable conduct at the...
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The top tennis players in the world are in Melbourne Australia right now preparing for the first “Grand Slam” tournament of the year.  There are only four of these “mega tournaments” per year, and though in some aspects it’s “just another tournament” in others, it’s not, and the stakes are high.  To wit, the...
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