Except he can’t go anywhere else, and the principle of punishing an individual for actions he had no knowledge of or part in is deeply, deeply stupid. If there’s dispositive proof that Kansas broke a rule, the NCAA has *many* ways to punish them without harming De Sousa. They chose otherwise— and of course, there are…

Who cares why he got the money if it can’t be demonstrated that De Sousa knew about or benefited from the money?

And to top it all off, he’s super nice. 

Because the Patriots suck, and the greatest tennis generation doesn’t. 

...and the rules should absolutely disallow players themselves from making those evaluations and not-entirely-obvious decisions about the relative benefits of their personal fates.

Then you haven’t seen either Istomin or Vesely playing their best-- like when Istomin beat Djokovic at the 2017 Australian Open, or Vesely beat Djokovic at Monte Carlo in 2016. Lesson: all of these guys are incredibly good, but a shot like that arcing pass from outside the tram-lines is a thing of beauty that only a…

To hit that shot with the topspin and sidespin required to drag it back into court takes a really violent amount of both. That’s why when players do this, they call it (literally) “hitting the outside of the ball.” Nadal does it perhaps better than anyone, which is why it’s better than decent— because “better than…

Breakdown is right up there too.

The Steve Kerr knock is off-base; that dude is coaching his ass off to hold the team together, and he does it with an incredibly chill demeanor (see how the team credited him last year for all the behind-the-scenes drama he dealt with). He’s always been a key element in maximizing what is definitely a (luckily for…

this remark is in really poor form

Hell.

You know his dad did that shit

One of my favorite moments on Tennis Channel was watching a round-table match analysis with I think Lindsay Davenport and Martina Navratilova and some of the color commentators, and I think Brett Haber remarked something on the lines of “we have so many accomplished commentators here on air, you’ve all won so much and…

Let us recall that Gimelstob is the charmer who gave us this exemplary misogyny: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/atptour/2304243/Tennis-official-Justin-Gimelstob-serves-up-sexist-rant-against-top-female-players.html

counterpoint: it is. although soup reporting is not the most serious aspect of it, i concede.

Entertainment reporting... is reporting.

Benneteau has always seemed like a pretty chill dude, and he was well-liked on the tour. And he was not at all a competitor to Federer (or Nadal, Djokovic, or any of the top 10 level players), and I doubt he had any illusions about that. A guy who flirted with the 30s on tour, at best (and fwiw Benneteau never won an…

Definitely. The top players have always been able to command more accommodation to their preferences than the lower-ranked players (and even the more famous or marketable players have been able to do so even when lower-ranked, like Sharapova for instance after her suspension), but Federer is on a whole other level. As…

All labor struggles are connected, and demand our solidarity. Peace, comrade.

That’s what I mean: there’s a scale for rookies, and then the max changes depending on years in the league. 25% of cap, 35%, etc. Those are much lower than the max cap for a veteran. (Which makes even less sense, because it even further divorces pay from the value a player brings to the team/league).