It happens once a year, right after we have all stuffed our faces full of tryptophan laced turkey; it's the biggest shopping time of the year! Regardless of you being naughty or nice this year, someone will deliver a Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or other celebratory day gift your way. I'm not one to give a history lesson on the origination of Black Friday or Cyber Monday, … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2011
How about that bagel?
I know, I haven't been writing much of anything about the World Tour Finals, only because it's the holidays and I'm trying to spend more time with family and saving my pennies for Christmas gifts for the kiddos. In any event, I just finished watching the match between Roger Federer [4] and Rafael Nadal [2]. Holy bagels batman! I could not believe what I was watching, it … [Read more...]
Tennis is for sissies
On my way to taking my daughter to her preschool this morning, I heard a news headline on the radio about how the NFL players are becoming very concerned with their travel schedule. Um what? You cannot be serious! Apparently the NFL players are serious. According to the report, several NFL players feel that traveling up to 3 times per week to travel to their games in … [Read more...]
Public tennis court courtesies
If you are like me, you don't belong to a private tennis club and you use the public tennis courts in your community to play. Unfortunately, public tennis courts tend to be full and the waiting game then starts. But how long does one have to wait for a tennis court? Are there rules to waiting? What do you do when you are playing and people are waiting? No matter how entry-level … [Read more...]
A week without tennis
I know, it's hard to swallow, the 2011 tennis season is pretty much over. Except for the 8 men who qualified for the the Barclays World Tour Finals held at the O2 arena in London, the rest of the field is on vacation until the beginning of the the 2012 tennis season. Roger Federer kicked off the week long tennis hiatus in perfect form, capturing his first BNP Paribas Masters … [Read more...]
Robin Soderling as quiet as a mouse
I guess if you're not in the "Big 3," you can easily slip under the radar as far as the spotlight can be concerned, at least that's the case with top Swede Robin Soderling. There has not been much of anything of his whereabouts and playing activity on the ATP world tour. The last time he played competitive tennis was way back in July of 2011 at the SkiStar Swedish Open, … [Read more...]
Is Serena Williams on drugs?
When it comes to professional athletes, especially the elite, it's no surprise when they are required to submit to random drug testing. You know, to just make sure that they are, in fact, capable of performing as well as they do by their own efforts and without the help of performance enhancing drugs. Just last week, former WTA #1, Serena Williams was the victim of random … [Read more...]