Andy Murray Is Going To The Wimbledon Final, Britain Loses Its Mind

Well, the second semifinal today between Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga may have been a battle between basket case and head case, but we have a winner: Andy Murray, trying to become the first Brit to win Wimbledon since Fred Perry 76 years ago, is going to the men's final.

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Sentimentalists, Rejoice! Roger Federer Beats Novak Djokovic, Heads…

And now the soap opera that is the men's tennis game just got a completely unexpected twist: Roger Federer is going back to the Wimbledon men's final after beating Novak Djokovic in four-set shocker.

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At Last, A Women's Final Worth Watching: The Serena Williams-Aggie…

When the Serena Williams-Victoria Azarenka Wimbledon semifinal started today, Mike Tirico and Mary Joe Fernandez made it pretty clear that they considered the match the de facto final. This was a popular theory, but it's wrong. Serena's straight-set victory put her into the final against Agnieszka Radwanska—a matchup…

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Welsh Rugby Out To Kill All Kinds Of Popes, Not Just The Catholic Ones

This story is strange on a number of levels. In 2008, two Welsh doctors discovered that going back to 1883, five roman Catholic Popes had died whenever Wales rugby won the Grand Slam. The Grand Slam, of course, is when one team in the annual Six Nations Championship beats all the other teams in a given year. The six…

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