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El Shapo Gets His First Major Win
Denis Shapovalov, the 18-year-old Canadian hereafter known as El Shapo, achieved something big today: He wore a normal hat without a busted-ass strap....
The U.S. Open Men's Draw Is A Joke
If you’re a man who can stand upright without anything hurting, you’ve got as good a shot as anyone to win the 2017 U.S. Open. Gone are the elites usually clotting the late rounds of majors. Of the top 11 players in men’s tennis, five of them are too hurt to play: No. 11 Milos Raonic, No. 10 Kei Nis...
Now We Get To Find Out What Kyrie Irving Is Actually Worth
The market (or at least Danny Ainge) thinks Kyrie Irving is worth a six-inch-smaller version of Kyrie Irving, a known-quantity 3-and-D guy on a dream contract, an untested young big, and one of the most precious draft picks in the league. That’s a hefty haul for the Cavs there—far better than what J...
Alexandr Dolgopolov Match Investigated Over Fixing Suspicions
Most talk of match-fixing in tennis comes cloaked in too many layers of anonymity to feel genuinely juicy. When the Tennis Integrity Unit, the independent body charged with sniffing out corruption in the sport, releases its quarterly report, there’s a section detailing matches that raised suspicions...
Glory Be To The Underachievers
Grigor Dimitrov and Nick Kyrgios are two of the most watchable players on tour, with sure feel and shot-making for days. They may also be the two players with the most inborn talent but the least hardware to show for it. They are almost certainly the two players with the strangest “posts on this blo...
How Much Longer Will This Be Fun?
It’s not just that you can’t always get what you want—sometimes, once what you want finally materializes, you wonder why you ever wanted it in the first place....
Frances Tiafoe, The Best American Teen, Gets Biggest Win Of His Career
Both of these players, aged 19 and 20, are nominally the “next generation,” but the latter has already arrived—he’s in the top 10 and has racked up more titles this year than anyone not named Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal. The other one won today in Cincinnati....
All The Top Men In Tennis Are Broken And Calling It A Day
First it was Novak Djokovic, sitting out the rest of the season to just, uh, generally debug....
Maria Sharapova Gets U.S. Open Wild Card, Will Play First Grand Slam Since 15-Month Doping Ban
Ready yourself for takes: the U.S. Tennis Association has granted Maria Sharapova a wild card into the U.S. Open main draw, meaning she will play her first Grand Slam since he return from a 15-month ban for use of the substance meldonium, a heart disease medication said to improve recovery. In gener...
The Best Thing In Tennis Last Week Was A Teen In An Ill-Fitting Hat
Denis Shapovalov is a Canadian teen who could probably use a new hat, because the portion of the strap that dangles off the hat is at least twice as long as the portion of the strap that is cinched to the hat. He was ranked No. 205 at the start of this year and entered the Rogers Cup last week with ...
Roger Federer's Dream Season Might Be Finally Catching Up To Him
Roger Federer showed up to the Montreal final Sunday in the stuff he’d been winning in all week: stubble of a sleepless new dad (he is an old dad), toasted tan, shirt the color of a very clean piglet. He also showed up with a 35-2 record. Federer has alternated between two modes this season: rest or...
Your Sponge Is Foul
I like doing dishes but hate the vile blobs used to do them. Sponges are deeply disgusting, and though you may try to convince me otherwise I have always felt this way, based on little more than my senses (i.e. after a few days of use, they tend to smell, look, and in all likelihood, taste bad)....
Report: Kyrie Irving Went Days Without Talking To His Teammates During The Playoffs
ESPN’s Dave McMenamin dropped a good nugget about Kyrie Irving’s relationship with his Cleveland teammates on today’s episode of The BBALLBREAKDOWN NBA Podcast. The Cavs reporter was asked about the possibility of a trade that would send Irving to the Suns and had this to say:...
This Is The Slowest Possible Way To Not Lose
Alexander Zverev was down match point against Richard Gasquet in the third set of their second-round Rogers Cup match Wednesday. The resulting exchange wasn’t exactly fun to watch, but it was impressive, in the way endurance sports are. The best comparison would be two people pushing the last bite o...
Gael Monfils Wouldn't Lose
Kei Nishikori had Gael Monfils beat today in Montreal, thrice over. Nishikori was up 5-3 in the second, serving for the match. He was up 5-3 set in the third, serving for the match. He was up 6-2 in the third set tiebreak. And Monfils still won 6-7(4), 7-5, 7-6(6)....
Nick Kyrgios Hit In Butt
After retiring from three straight matches—at Queen’s Club, at Wimbledon, and in Washington, D.C.—Nick Kyrgios won a match Monday, a 6-1, 6-2 dismissal of Victor Troicki at the Rogers Cup in Montreal. A day later, he willingly got hit in the butt....
Roger Federer Turns 36, Is Wished Well By People He Has Owned
Today is Roger Federer’s birthday. He turned 36, won both majors he entered this year, and shows no signs of slowing. Here is an extremely charming compilation of birthday wishes from people he has regularly and/or recently owned....
Please, For The Love Of All That Is Holy And Football-Shaped, Do Not Ruin <i>Hey Arnold</i>
These days I watch my toddler nephews and nieces watch YouTube videos of adults unboxing and playing with toys for children, and wonder what level of the brain meme I’m living on. Sometimes I poke and probe—what could be interesting about this? Why is watching this more fun than playing with the ver...
Kristaps Porzingis's Workouts Have Become Slightly Less Relatable, Have Made Him Slightly More Swole
Kristaps Porzingis, despite being the centerpiece of one of the world’s most visible sports franchises and a superstar in utero, spent this summer’s gym trips looking an awful lot like what he is: a skinny-ass 21-year-old trying to put some weight on. It was comforting to see....
Novak Djokovic Will Sit Out The Rest Of The 2017 Season
Yesterday it already looked as though Novak Djokovic was going to miss the U.S. Open, and this morning the Serbian star announced that he will be sitting out not just the year’s final major but the whole 2017 season to recover from a right elbow injury. “I think I haven’t missed a single major event...