I don’t see how you can state that as an objective fact. A lot of people, including myself, interpreted it as satire. A lot of people didn’t.

It was. The author chose to be outraged when the reality is no one, including the UN or WHO, can do an impartial investigation because China isn’t allowing it. There’s also no dispute that China initially covered up the outbreak, regardless of its point of origin. The danger we have is the countries that refuse to be…

Here’s hoping!

He does have an ongoing injury, though, for which he needed two surgeries last year. He hadn’t played a professional tennis match in almost 18 months. Clay courts are notoriously hard on the body, especially the knees/ankles with the sliding. His physiotherapist advised that he not continue to strain his knee by…

This article is beyond disingenuous. Federer had a physical ailment and withdrew from the tournament with no penalties. Osaka had a psychological ailment and withdrew from the tournament with no penalties.

The best clay court champions are European. The defending French Open Champion made it to the quarterfinals. The demand for tennis coverage driving the tour and media aren’t casual American fans. Somehow the French Open survived without the “casual” tennis fan in California waking up at 3am to watch the afternoon…

I don’t know enough about the book to know if any parts (not the mob in the forest) was inspired by real events, but smokejumping is one of the most dangerous professions and becoming more prevalent with the increased drought in the west. A friend of my family’s, a Forest Service smokejumper named Tom Hart died last…

US Weekly is tabloid-ing but Quinn posting those pictures is the impetus for the conversation. She should post anything she wants, but I think despite her comments, she also feels a need to prove something about her body after birth. The poses are all very strategic so you can’t see her lower abdomen because - heaven…

You bet wrong. https://www.itftennis.com/media/2495/grand-slam-rulebook-2020-f.pdf

What are you talking about? He WAS kicked out of the tournament and there was huge outrage about it among tennis fans. The fact that you don’t know what routinely goes on in tennis and the penalties for players, regarding of ranking or gender, proves that this “outrage” from laypersons who don’t follow the sport is…

If you’re going to write a piece on tennis, you should probably actually know something about...tennis.

If she doesn’t participate in the Grand Slams, she won’t be ranked as #2 in the world, since the rankings are based on points and the Grand Slams are worth far more than other tournaments.

Yes, the “cruel and exploitative press” who lauded her for her BLM stance and gained her record winnings and sponsorships in the last year, about whom TODAY Osaka said “The tennis press has always been kind to me (and I wanna apologize especially to all the cool journalists who I may have hurt).”

Exactly. If she doesn’t play in the grand slams, she’ll lose not only the majority of her earning but also sponsorships. These events have been around for 150+ years in some cases. There are other star players on the tour, more and less successful than her, who all follow the rules of the sport. If you can’t commit to…

No, she’s done the on-court interview and interviews with her personal sponsors. She’s picking and choosing which media to do. The major channel broadcasts do have interviews with the players as part of their broadcast rights that they pay to the tournament.

The media rights include live interviews with players after the game.

This article was posted 2 hours ago. The mainstream media coverage which featured the statement of default and disqualification from future Grand Slam tournaments was published 5 hours ago. This is another Jezebel author doesn’t actually know anything about the sport but is going to post an OUTRAGED article on the…

This is a weird take on the statement, which also threatened default for her from this tournament and future Grand Slams for not fulfilling the requirement of contract to play in the tournament, which was not mentioned at all in this blog post.

No, they can disqualify her from the tournament, and they’ve put out a statement (along with the other Grand Slams) stating that they will do that. The money they have for prizes at the tournaments and to run the events comes from selling the media rights.

I’m suggesting her saying “some people doubt me” while being a professional athlete, a job in which people literally bet money against you winning, and then using examples of OTHER athletes who did not stop giving press conferences is disingenuous. Why is she posting a video of a teenage Venus Williams? Venus…