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back to tennis. no mental health issues involved with that world. just mindless ball hitting machines. womens semis today. 18yo american coco gauff is in her first final four. dont quote me on that. current world number 1, some eastern european, is in the first match at 9 followed by the gauff match. meanwhile nadal continues to run the gauntlet facing #3 zverev, uhhh, right now. scratch that, thats tomorrow. fuck me, no, fuck you. it was confusing! now im depressed.
checked out the french open draw yesterday. top half of the draw is a beast as nadal despite being the greatest clay court player of all time was only 5th seeded based on i assume a light schedule. so if he gets through his 9th ranked opponent, a young rising canadian who is now coached by nadals uncle, he will have to face djokivic in the quarters and then perhaps the young rising spandiard from the previous post in the semis. only then will he face probably the number two russian guy who has one other top ten player left in his side of the draw. do i know any other there names? the russian but i am loathe to try and spell it and no one really cares anyway.
but i was expecting this to be on espn or i was prepared to be angry that it was now on espn+ streaming for more money but espn dropped the french according to an article because its shitty morning yelling heads shows had better numbers and costs nothing to produce. so its back in the nbc family which means an occasional match on nbc i suspect and peacock+ streaming. so more money for that. but..... also, tennis channel?!? do i "get" tennis channel? yes! so get to watch some rafa this morning to see if he can continue to defy aging a little longer. hes actually "only" 35. old for tennis but not quite as old as i thought he was.
meanwhile espn is running formula one which based on some sports podcasts i listen to has surged in popularity of late. if only mark was still around to see it. rip.
sports, sports everywhere! this is on clay to boot.
Carlos Alcaraz joined a small group Saturday, becoming the fifth player to defeat Djokovic and Rafael Nadal on back-to-back days and the first since Roger Federer at the 2010 ATP Finals. Alcaraz, 19, is also the youngest player to defeat an ATP World No. 1 since Nadal beat Roger Federer in the 2005 French Open semifinals on his 19th birthday.
nationally ranked squash player excels at other stuff too!
old fashioned sports watching day for me. two plus soccer games (two exciting ties! really), a basketball playoff game that came down to a final shot just a 1/10 of a second late, and a 79 to 1 longshot (longest odds) winning the kentucky derby. and still one more basketball playoff game later. just goes to show that hard work pays off in the end.
now i have to go back to reading about whether iuds are abortifacients which is a word i just learned the meaning of earlier today. deciding if life begins at fertilization or implantation really is a variant of asking what the definition of is is. as for me i say kill them all and let god sort it out.
Tony Hawk Doc
WHAT AN ENDING.
— #RingerNBA (@ringernba) December 16, 2021
Shai ties it ... AND GRAHAM WINS IT FROM 3/4 COURT!!!
(📼 @NBATurkiye)
pic.twitter.com/f7RBTmqdhs
been watching some us open this weekend. couple 18 year old girls, one canadian, one brit are through to round of 16 and some 20 yo unknown american is battling djokovic right now. took the first set but is down a break in the second. on espn.
still havent made it beyond the skateboarding and the surfing yet. but must have been some exciting race because saw a number of tweets just now. assumed we won but apparently second is ok now. not the america i know. thought this was a replay but no. saved me some time though.
Watch how the women's 4x200 free relay unfolded. In the final leg of the race, Katie Ledecky 🇺🇸 charged ahead of the Australians and secured the silver medal for the Americans. https://t.co/UhK3XpZO6O pic.twitter.com/SjF0Y35OPr
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 29, 2021