From ESPN mag:

Still, Sharapova is being packaged and sold as the girl next door, crammed into the box of the friendly, giggly gal who just wants to have fun: Hilary Duff with a forehand.I'm not going to get into sex/image marketing or backlash/reverse discrimination or sour grapes or anything -- right now -- lemme just say: do they think ( Read more... )

( Guess what. If you buy a 'vintage' tanktop that was made in 2003, its not REALLY vintage, and you're not fooling anybody. )

Frank Deford is a Sports Illustrated journalist who ususally writes about America's "Big Four" sports. As far as tennis goes he's recently written an article praising Andy Roddick's sportsmanship -- a, sadly, minorly politically charged act in today's sports and global scene -- and is no America-hater. Both these things may give some credibility in ( Read more... )

Hahah, wow. Federer lost. Richard Gasquet, if you accomplish no other thing, you will at least have been on the unbelievably short list of those who had beaten Roger Federer in his prime ( Read more... )

Monica Seles’ good friend, ESPN’s Mary Joe Fernandez, told TR.net that she believes that the nine-time Grand Slam champion will attempt to return to the tour this year. Seles hasn’t played a tour match since '03 Roland Garros because of bad feet. Fernandez said that Seles still isn’t healthy enough to practice rigorously, but did say her friend is ( Read more... )

Hahah @ "very, very flexible"!

New balls, please ( Read more... )

Lleyton, Cartwright to Wed ( Read more... )

OK, a more thorough catching-up (if anyone cares THAT much ... ahh who cares who cares, I care! Good enuff :-P ).

Today was big french exam and even bigger bio exam. French went better than expected, considering I studied for two hours the morning of. I got hung up on the content recall portion, as I ... never ... read ... the content ... but ( Read more... )