Once college basketball season ends, the sports world is nearly non-existent for me until college football begins in the fall. Basically, I could not care less about professional baseball, so my summer sports viewing is pretty limited while I await the return of college football and the weekly blather of Fowler, Herbstreit and Corso.
I [...]

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Roger Federer, quite simply, is the man. Federer won his third grand slam in a row today at the Australian and his 10th overall. He won all 7 matches in the tournament without losing a set. The last player to do that was Bjorn Borg. Pete Sampras’ record of 14 grand [...]

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I intended to watch more of the Australian Open than I have, and I really wanted to see the Roger Federer/Andy Roddick match. However, with Federer hammering Roddick 6-4, 6-0, 6-2, it doesn’t appear to have been that great of a match. Well, it was for Federer, I guess. Apparently he played [...]

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Last year, the Australian Open snuck up on me. There’s a number of reasons for that, which I wrote about last year. One of those is that it’s often lost here in America amid the many sporting events taking place during January (NFL playoffs, college basketball, NBA, NHL, etc.) Last year [...]

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Once again, this year did not contain the one sports story I look forward to the most each year - Duke wins the national championship in college basketball. However, there were a few bright spots here and there. Here are a few of the things that were of interest to me in 2006:

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I’m looking forward to “Super Saturday” at the U.S. Open. It’s mildly surprising that the two Russians, Nikolay Davydenko amd Mikhail Youzhny are in the semifinals. I say that because Youzhny beat Raphael Nadal, who most expected to be playing Roddick for a shot at Federer in the final. Then Davydenko was [...]

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Well, I can only think of one way to say it: this weekend’s sports have sucked.
First, of course, was the USA basketball team’s debacle at the world championships which I’ve already mentioned. Sorry, but we just shouldn’t be losing to Greece. I’ve already heard (and not surprisingly) people wanting to blame it on Krzyzewski. We [...]

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I was privileged to watch another great Andre Agassi match at the U.S. Open last night.  This is his farewell to the Open and to tennis, so I’m trying to make certain I watch every one.   I wrote last year about Agassi’s match with James Blake, which is one [...]

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Here’s several sports items I thought I’d mention.
U.S. Open
The U.S. Open started today, and having the day off I managed to watch a little of it. Not much excitement on day one, but I will be watching shortly as Andre Agassi takes the court to begin his final U.S. Open. I thought Andre might walk [...]

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The U.S. Open begins in 10 days. College football kicks off in 13 days. I’m very excited about both. After a boring summer mostly filled with baseball (zzzzzz…), Americans all leaving Wimbledon very early, and World Cup soccer (actually, the soccer wasn’t that bad), I’m looking forward to something to watch again. [...]

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