he made it into the finals! at last! i don't think he'll beat federer, but at last he's made it to the finals!

i have become a liveblog addict:

4.05pm: The Isner-Mahut battle is a bizarre mix of the gripping and the deadly dull. It's tennis's equivalent of Waiting For Godot, in which two lowly journeymen comedians are forced to remain on an outside court until hell freezes over and the sun falls from the sky.

but i really do like many sports and i've been following tennis since billie jean king beat bobby riggs ( Read more... )

you know, there was a time, and i think it was two weeks ago, when i could not have told you what a goal differential was to save my life. this is what happens when you date people from foreign countries. profit from my experience ( Read more... )

if you have a sporting event coming up that you care about, you might like to invest a little money in bribing me to root against your team, just saying. cause last night, the blackhawks, the white sox, and the cubs all lost, and this morning, samantha stosur lost at the french open final. that's a pretty impressive run, even for me.

prognosis is good, but obviously, this sucks.

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/news/story?id=5063033http://espn.go.com/sports

really really great points. i don't know that roddick can win but at least he's making a match of it.

i make darned good mint iced tea.

if i ever catch on that television gives start times in eastern time, i'll catch more of the women's final, just saying.

also, the watermelon i bought yesterday is no good--so disappointing!

lars pointed me at a site where i could keep track of wimbledon scores and i noticed the ladies invitational doubles matches. jana novotna! zina garrison! (names i actually recognize!) *nostalgic sigh*