Definitely an odd bird... and seems like the kind of guy who might struggle to keep personal-life distractions from affecting his on-court performance. He’s got real weapons, for sure, but the mental side was particularly fundamental to his success — the confidence, consistency, drive, focus, etc. Even getting…

“Djokovic was targeted by Serbian tabloids, which suggested that he had been unfaithful to Jelena.”

But we’d struggle with YYZ.

That one about stolen bases is interesting. As with a lot of the predictive stats, I wonder if there’s something intangible getting overlooked. For example, in this case, if pitchers, over time, became more and more certain that the runner on 1st wasn’t gonna budge... would that translate to the pitcher being less…

I’ve been to one game at Coors Field... it was the night Matt Kemp became the first Padre to hit for the cycle. Who cares? Good question.

Go squadron, do good!

Yeah, he started doing the SABR (Sneak Attack By Roger), here and there, a couple years ago. Thought maybe he stopped... don’t recall him doing it during the Australian Open... but maybe he’s put that club back in his bag.

Fed fan here but that was a happy accident - found the video and his shot clips the tape and drops over (can even see him raise his racket to apologize, right before the gif ends). Even Fed doesn’t purposefully hit net-cord winners...

Then you’re as sharp as a bowlin’ ball?

To your point about those deep playoff runs: By the time he retires, LeBron will have played at least three full regular seasons worth of post-season games (he’s already at 199). Just cuz others (Kobe) did something similar doesn’t mean Cleveland shouldn’t consider a different approach.

Two things: 1) Second guy from right caught the Nelson Cruz home-run (looked like he reached over but umps say it cleared), then also snagged the Rosario ground-rule double (definitely looked like he reached over), from which this grab was taken. 2) Is the guy in the middle wearing Snapchat Spectacles?

Come on Dennis, be schrewder.

Oscar Hernandez, who not only played catch with a young fan but FRAMED ONE OF THE KID’s PITCHES so he could pretend to call it a strike, is now my favorite player.

This isn’t complicated. No music or contrived chanting or whatever when the ball’s in play. Timeouts, intermissions, etc., go for it. I’m not big into hockey but went to a Rangers game recently, and it was pretty damn cool. Home team scores, music kicks in to enhance the celebrating. Random stoppages of play get…

Looked like Thomas was trying that ever-popular (if not ever-necessary) trick where a player lets the inbound pass land and roll some, to keep the clock from starting right away. And while, yes, in this case it made sense for Thomas to think he should do that, a part of me is glad he got burned.

LOL this guy.

Can’t believe I’d never heard, “Close the door.” That’s funny. But not sure I believe Cuban would’ve been OK with that...

Martina Hingis’s mom named her after Martina Navratilova... partial credit?

Yeah, for sure... not a tanking issue with Hewitt. I just meant all the “Come on!” shouting and whatnot... and complaining that a black line judge is favoring his black opponent.... and firing those overheads at his grandma (well done, funny cuz it’s true)... full respect for his fight... two major titles with that…

Tomic the Tank... he and Kyrgios (and to some degree Hewitt before them) aren’t cut from the typical Aussie tennis cloth.