Here’s a few things from my summer thus far…
Worked a lot
Work has continued to take up a lot of time this summer. That started before I took the break, and was actually part of the reason for the break. I’ve had slower weeks this summer, but only a couple. Most of them [...]

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4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (2)

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It’s been a long week. More on that another time. For now…
From the land down under
In my US Open recap a few months ago, I wrote that Djokovic’s time is coming, and coming soon. The gap between Federer and everyone else was closing fast. Nadal already owns him at the French, [...]

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I did a lot of work around the house the past two days, so I was able to keep my eye close on the sports world (well, at least, the NFL, tennis and college basketball.) It was a great weekend in my opinion.
NFL
The Super Bowl is now set.

A year after Peyton reached his first [...]

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I’ve been too busy to get this done since Sunday evening, so here it is a couple of days late…
Justine Henin was never really challenged in the women’s final Saturday night. She won her second grand slam this year without losing a set (she also did so at the French.) She’s the best [...]

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The U.S. Open is down to the final four’s. There’s been a lot of great matches this year, and I hope even more to come in the final few days.
The Roger Federer-Andy Roddick match was a great match, despite only being three sets. Roddick played probably as well as he [...]

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College football kicked off this week and started with a bang. It’s hard to imagine a better opening weekend. Arkansas won - which was certainly nice, and Michigan and Notre Dame were embarrassed at home. It was nice to see Tennessee lose, and would’ve been a near perfect weekend had K-State held [...]

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I’m excited, as usual, about the college football season kicking off this week. I don’t know what games are scheduled this first week, but I do know Tennessee-California are playing Saturday so I look forward to kicking off the season with a good game (hopefully better than their game last year, which was over [...]

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Regardless of who won today’s men’s singles final at Wimbledon, history would be made.
For #2 seed Raphael Nadal, he was looking to become the first man in 27 years to win both the French and Wimbledon in the same year. The last time was in 1980 when Bjorn Borg did it.
For #1 [...]

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On The Sports Reporters yesterday morning, Mitch Albom mentioned Raphael Nadal’s win at the French a couple of weeks ago over Roger Federer, and Nadal’s dominance of Federer, and everyone else, on clay. Nadal has now won three consecutive French titles. He then spoke of Wimbledon, where, of course, Federer has dominated in [...]

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