It is true RF looked very nervous. Its also true that when Berdych plays his best there’s not much anyone can do.

i ask this only because i don’t know, but is it possible Pence and the conservatives who agree with him are concerned more about optics than what a dinner like that could lead to? they are, after all, in politics. wouldn’t look good even if it was just a friendly dinner.

thing is, Federer and most other top professionals are constantly anticipating their opponents’ next shots based on percentages of probability and their specific experience paying against a given player. so, they make educated guesses about which way the next shot will go, and even if every once in a while they get…

bear-rel roll

ha that didn’t even occur to me! i knew that Dimitrov was with her, and that it was her match but never put it all together. i think she went on to lose that match as well...

i’ve never heard him claim to be a ‘loving student of the game’ except where it pertains to the act of playing it. also never heard that he doesn’t know who althea gibson is, but i have no reason to doubt what you’ve said here... though it doesn’t make him an asshole in and of itself. just look at how much this guy…

right - sorry. i mean that’s not what Valhalla (to whom you replied) was saying.

therefore he’s off the hook

‘Very, Very Rich Man’s Rasheed Wallace’

totally get it. what’s interesting about him (and not ‘likeable’ in the traditional sense of the word) is that he is all of these guys at once. we never know who we’re going to see.

this is really good, thanks Giri. I saw Kyrgios last week at the BNP Paribas Showdown in NYC and felt the same thing, that TV doesn’t do justice to either the game, or the breadth of any of the personalities playing it.

if there ever was a case to be made for the Electoral College, this election was it.

originally called ‘Good Friend’

love this, maybe only topped by ‘Yer Blues’. Winston, welcome to the show.

this is very good

awesome. i now love this guy

part of being the best at anything is giving a shit. the reason the ‘Big 4' have held on at the top for so long comes down to this more than anything else.

saying that ‘firing JT3 will only matter to olds and alumni’ only amplifies what Laura is saying.

how do you know that the US isn’t served by immigration (illegal or otherwise) by Mexicans/central Americans? the statistics say that US businesses are served.

ah yes, of course: