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Rafa! Rafa! Rafa! Nadal’s Signature Victory at the US Open
Rafael Nadal’s monumental win over Daniil Medvedev in yesterday’s U.S. Open men’s singles final was pure Rafa: Dominance, happenstance, hesitance, dominance. Highlights: The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay – as always – captured it perfectly. Let’s be candid … Continue reading
These Are the Saddest of Possible Words: Rafa to Rahfa! to Feh
With apologies to Franklin Pierce Adams In the swift decline and fall of Rafael Nadal, this was the worst. Last year he was Number One in the world. Last night he was just numb. In his third-round U.S. Open match with … Continue reading
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Tagged Douchebag Hall of Fame, Fabio Fognini, Rafael Nadal, The Guardian, U.S.Open
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Nike Pimps Out Air(time) Jordan at U.S. Open
Product placement is no longer just a function of plunking down a Starbucks mug on the set of MSNBC’s Morning Joe or handing Seinfeld’s Kramer some Junior Mints. That’s so 1.0, yo. Welcome to Product Placement Umpteen.0, yo. From yesterday’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Jordan, ESPN, Junior Mints, Kramer, Michael Jordan, Morning Joe, MSNBC, Nike, NikeCourt, Product Placement 1.0, Roger Federer, Seinfeld, Sneak ADtack, Starbucks, U.S.Open, Wall Street Journal, Zoom Vapor AJ3
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That’s Just So Wrong! (Monfils! Monfils! U.S. Open Edition)
Last night’s U.S. Open featured something truly amazing: American tennis fans rooting against an American tennis player. Specifically, the match between 13th-seeded American John Isner and unseeded Gael Monfils in which the (most certainly drunk) New York crowd was solidly … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC News, AP, Dr. Seuss, Flushing Meadows, Gael Monfils, John Isner, Monfilsical the Musical, Philipp Kohlschreiber, U.S.Open
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That’s Just So Stupid! (Novak Djerkovic U.S. Open Edition)
In the run-up to the 2013 U.S. Open, the New Yorker ran a major takeout by Lauren Collins on world number one tennis player Novak Djokovic. Nut graf: Djokovic and his family were slow to internalize the codes of tennis, a … Continue reading
U.S. Open Dating (Bob Kraft Girlfriend Edition)
From our Ricki Noel Lander (Or Is That Landing?) desk Bob Kraft and girlfriend sighting (Myra spinning in her grave) at the U.S. Open: (Tip o’ the pixel: Huffington Post)
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Tagged Bob Kraft girlfriend, Huffington Post, or is that Landing?, Ricki Noel Lander, U.S.Open
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Big Blow For David Ferrer At U.S. Open
The U.S. Open went all Key Largo yesterday, with heavy winds turning the Andy Murray-Tomas Berdych men’s semifinal into a game of Wiffle Tennis. From ESPN.com: NEW YORK — Dealing with 20 mph wind that blew a changeover chair onto … Continue reading
Rafael Nadal, Please Call Sam Stosur
The was some can of whup-ass Sam Stosur opened on Serena Williams in the U.S. Open women’s final, yeah? Match point: And what would the U.S. Open be without a Seranta – in this case because (via YouTube) “playing … Continue reading
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Tagged can of whup-ass, Novak Djokovic, Rafa, Rafael Nadal, Sam Stosur, Seranta, Serena Williams, U.S.Open
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Is Sports Medicine In Need Of An Rx?
The Missus and I were watching Caroline Wozniacki reduce Svetlana Kuznetsova to a pile of rubble in the U.S. Open when this ad for SonoSite’s hand-carried ultrasound contraption popped up: Pretty dramatic, no? Injured athlete: “See anything, Doc?” Hot doctor: … Continue reading
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