Jay Peterman, world famous seller of clothes and the best the Jets could scrape together to play QB. They were also going to make history by bringing in Elaine Benes to play wide receiver but she refused to take off an Orioles hat to put on the helmet so they had to cut her.

I saw a tweet yesterday by some credulous dumbass that, more or less, went “To give McGregor no chance is absurd. Floyd has never fought anyone with his precision and power...”

For God’s sake, Stan, that tweet is something else.

Can anyone think of a single sport that wouldn’t benefit both the fans and athletes by being at least 25% shorter? I used to say football, but not anymore. NBA and MLB are interminable. But soccer and tennis are the worst. They really don’t ever end.

Trumbo lived a nightmare of mine today. I used to have a recurring and very disturbing dream where I couldn’t catch a fly ball at the very last second, despite having tracked it correctly..

*trumboner

trumbone*

*sad trumbone music*

LaMarcus, I guess, plus a cheap young player who might be good. This trade works, for example:

That Roddick match, as I recently discovered, struck a nerve with a lot of people. Me included. I remember his run-up, beating (a sorta-sour) Hewitt and playing just perfect next-level Roddick tennis against Murray to make the final, then playing out of his head against Fed, just to lose. And you are right, Fed…

Yeah, Giri you basically nailed it here, but the really understated component of Federer’s career is the extent to which he played Dreamcrusher who laid waste to the legacies of basically multiple generations of tennis stars.

That stat about her being the first player to beat both Williams sisters in Grand Slam events is truly remarkable. But mostly as a statistical oddity. People forget that Serena didn’t dominate at the height of the Henin/Clisters/Davenport/Mauresmo era like she has in the last 5-6 years. There was a stretch from 2003…

The third thing would be not sweating. He can be out playing a marathon 4 hour match against Murray in the desert and the dude still wouldnt sweat.

I agree. Some folks contend he moves as well as ever, but I don’t think so. Even on a terrific running cross-court forehand following a Roanic drop shot on Wednesday, you could see him laboring to get there and looking a bit stiff in the process (though he did will himself to the ball!). I do think he has learned to…

His hands are also the best of all time. To my eyes, his legs are quite a bit stiffer and he hits from more compromised positions these days than he used to—on the stretch, backing up (look at that first picture ... not ideal)—but it doesn’t matter at all because he can still pop through the ball on either wing, dead…

That headline...yikes.

giri, your tennis posts are the most delightful thing about deadspin right now. just the best.

We were watching at work and utterly amazed that it had entered the four-hour mark and they were still serving with so much force. Physically, they could have kept playing but mentally they were slipping hard. Lots of unforced (and some forced) errors. Definitely a great match by both players.

Why are tennis fans, and the networks, not putting more pressure on Wimbledon to get rid of the outrageously anachronistic and elitist middle Sunday? How great would it have been for some of us plebeians to watch this fantastic match, which should have occurred on a Sunday. I was stuck at work monitoring the score on…