I’m with Laura. Baseball, you have teammates to help. Golf is close, but there’s no direct opponent, only the course. Both let you get coaching and counseling during the competition. In tennis, you are alone with your demons. If you happen to be facing a player who has beaten you a few times recently...

Aaand, you’d be wrong on both counts. I mean, fucking boxing has either of those two beat, easy. But tennis is a series of matches over a number of days against all kinds of opponents. Golf is a nice walk, ruined. John Daly made money playing golf. It’s not an easy game to play well, but it doesn’t compare to the…

five Wimbledons is less than seven

“Gaethje’s solution was the only one he knows: more violence.”

Wake me up when somebody leaves the race to become a dairy farmer.

Less that half of all employers in the US offer health insurance. So a job is still not necessarily a guarantee of access to health insurance, much less affordable health insurance. Our system of employer based access to health care is pretty stupid.

to the honor and courage of the Patriots of the Confederate States of America

For most tennis players, the first fault isn’t usually a problem. Now, if this reopened investigation also concludes that Williams caused the accident, that would be a double fault, and the advantage in the case goes to her opponent.

Assholes may wish ill upon this kid because his father is such an obvious dick but I hope he does well despite the anchor of stupidity around is ankles. I’m a Celtics fan so everything I just said may be a lie except for the dick part.

Because the Hayward signing makes them the East’s second best team without much argument, the big question for me right now is: how are they guarding the Cavs? Cleveland had their way with Boston in a few of those games and, as much as I enjoyed the Celtics upset, it was, uh, a little unsustainable (sorry Marcus!).…

Yeah, this is a line of logic I mention at points in this thread, and I think the Celtics are doing just that. Stevens himself has speculated that the future of the league is really just three positions—point guard, wing, and big—and just two if you go by Warrior lineups where wings like Durant and Draymond are…

He’s OK, and we’re learning that the ambitious contracts for 3-and-D (-ish) guys off one good season are mostly turning out to be overpays (Bazemore, Crabbe, and Carroll immediately come to mind). THJ is not nearly as good as the Rooster, and his performance and history makes him at least as risky even with Gallo’s…

1. That was my bad. I thought you were saying *I* was the casual once-every-4-years fan.

As a former figure skater...... the judging traditionally has been based on two objective/subjective criterion. It boils down to “what did you do” and “how well did you do it”. This would be similar to floor exercises in gymnastics. How difficult were the elements you performed and how well did you perform those…

It’s Connecticut. Anything is possible there.

The owners are hoping to use the menace of “superteams” as an excuse to screw players whether it makes sense or not.

She’s a white girl with a Thug Life bitmoji. I bet she has all types of cool thoughts and opinions. /s

Speaking of LeBron, let’s jump in a time machine. It’s 2007 and LeBron can’t close out a series because he passed the ball too much to his teammates. Sure Jordan punched a teammate, orchestrated a coaching change, nearly took his talents to MSG, gambled, and cheated on his wife, but at least he was a competitive…

Yeah, I agree - although it is on the fans to recognize the “relationship” dynamic (ie. their relationship is to an individuals appearance in the media, and on the court - someone they’ve usually never even spoken to) and act accordingly just as much as the players.

The wackiest part of that insane editor’s note is him implying that the Jazz wear blue. My man, that is purple, you know the color of Tinky Winky from the Teletubbies