Rooney eats it.

Complete agree with your engagement points. Both players have to serve and return serve so there is certainly more engagement than co-ed team sports.

Just going to chime in on USTA mixed doubles tennis. Every player has a computer generated rating, but in mixed doubles they use your combined rating. Which means most pairings are going to have a guy that is two notches higher on the scale than the woman. They don’t do this for the men only/women only leagues either.…

So how would Anderson have done if he had not had the mega semifinal? I think he takes a set, but I’m not totally convinced.

Never fails. When we go out to the coast we always see a bro-truck not only in the wet sand... but usually in the surf too.

Neighbors with 3 kids recently traded in their minivan for a full sized Mercedes Sprinter van. When I asked why they needed a van that huge they said “So each kid gets their own row”. They love the thing.

Won’t somebody think of the man-children and their mini-helmets?!?

Only Jake Bauers could keep this game from going 24 hours.

This is almost exactly the MLS system. They have 3 unlimited spots, and a whole cluster of midlevel tiers.

NBA: La Liga

Kobe gonna sign with the dubs for the league minimum.

I feel like we need some stories about your time at Topps, Dave. Please tell me that someone like Bret Boone got extremely pissed at something you put on the back of his card.

Grimes.

If this happens, I can’t wait for the Stef jersey over button-down shirt with Lakers hat superfan.

It was pretty easy actually. He just had to use the quadratic formula.

Nick’s best chance at making it through a whole season without melting down is the grass court season.

Messi looked so sad that I thought he was going to get in his space ship and return to his home planet.

Did his new left bicep just grow over the tat that was there??

Eau de humanity

Sounds like Mirka has the best backhand in the family.