2008 U.S. Open: Thoughts on the Second Round (Women’s Draw)
The biggest upset yet to hit the 2008 U.S. Open came right at the top of the women’s draw. Yesterday at Flushing Meadows, number-one seed and world number-one Ana Ivanovic […]
The biggest upset yet to hit the 2008 U.S. Open came right at the top of the women’s draw. Yesterday at Flushing Meadows, number-one seed and world number-one Ana Ivanovic […]
I have drifted toward introspective thought processes recently. I have been reading a lot of my old articles, trying to figure out just where I am trying to go with […]
A day after the women finished the first round at Flushing Meadows, the men completed the remainder of their first-round matchups with Andy Roddick’s straight-sets victory (6-2, 6-2, 6-2) over […]
Yesterday saw the opening of the 2008 U.S. Open, the final Grand Slam of the tennis season, for the thirty-first time at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center […]
One of my favorite books was written by Joe McGinniss. A journalist who started at the Philadelphia Bulletin and then the Philadelphia Enquirer before his first book, The Selling of […]
Finally… a day off work. The Roots come out of the Cambridge SoundWorks speakers buried on the cluttered desk, Illadelph Halflife spinning through my brain. “It Just Don’t Stop”… and […]
When you are pedaling along through the rollers and the sagebrush, a high-plains drifter with nothing to depend upon but yourself, the gear on the bicycle and the guy riding […]
Interesting note: In all Olympic events where the winner is determined by judges: China has 21 Gold medals, 3 Silver, 8 Bronze (32 total) US has 5 Gold medals, 7 […]
For all those fair-weather fans who watched Usain Bolt let up in the 100 meters and left track for dead until his return in the 200 meter races, there was […]
It is amazing how short a span of time is really represented by one-hundredth of one second. For some, that hundredth signals a sigh of relief on the road to […]