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Dustin Brown Is The Wackiest Motherfucker In Tennis
The overhead is one of the most straightforward shots in tennis, so straightforward it follows a script. You are standing not too far from the net. A ball is falling down to the court from way up above. Your job is to meet it with your racket over your head, and hard. The only real choice left to yo...
Daniil Medvedev Melts Down At Wimbledon, Tosses Money At Umpire's Chair
Daniil Medvedev’s first-ever Wimbledon burned hot, brief, and stupid. The 21-year-old Russian upset No. 5 seed Stan Wawrinka in the first round, and today he exited in a remarkable meltdown. ...
Gael Monfils Hits One Right At A Guy's Ass
Gael Monfils, one of the great entertainers in tennis, had a respectable run in the French Open until he ran into Stan Wawrinka. But enough with clay. On to a new surface and new challenges to be conquered, like Wimbledon, or hitting this person in the butt:...
Roger Federer Still Smokes Everyone On Grass
He looked bad, then he looked fine, and then he looked exactly how you you would want to look when you are holding a racket and standing on blades of grass. Beating the world No. 66, 29, 134, and 38 is one thing—beating Alexander Zverev, maybe the only player in the field who currently seems destine...
Robin Haase's Wrists Are Made Of Rubber
Today at the Halle Open, Robin Haase dug around and came up with one of the most inventive and uncomfortable-looking shots of the season:...
James Blake Settles NYC Police Brutality Case On Condition That City Creates Fellowship To Take On Cop Misconduct<em></em>
In 2015, former world No. 4 tennis player James Blake was tackled and handcuffed outside a midtown Manhattan hotel by a New York City police officer who mistook him for a suspect in a credit card fraud case. Blake had a sound case against the city: the entire incident was captured on surveillance vi...
Roger Federer Is Back On His Feet
Roger Federer is no longer cause for alarm, but not quite celebration, either. After his first match on his favorite surface ended in a freak loss to 39-year-old Tommy Haas, the Swiss routed world No. 66 Yuichi Sugita in his first match at the Halle Open, and today faced his first real test in No. 2...
Report: Phil Jackson Was Falling In And Out Of Sleep During A Prospect's Workout
ESPN’s Jay Williams just told a story absurd enough to rile up the typically unflappable Bob Ley: a top-15 draft pick said Knicks president Phil Jackson was falling in and out of sleep during his workout....
Boris Becker, the Hall of Fame tennis player who won six majors—including a Wimbledon by age 17—served hard enough to earn the nickname “Boom Boom,” coached Novak Djokovic for three of the most fruitful years of his career until his release in December, and once spent £20 million in divorce and pate...
Report: Kawhi Leonard's Braids Intact
Yesterday a photo of an apparently braid-free Kawhi Leonard was circulated on Twitter. The Spurs star was practically unrecognizable without his trademark cornrows. Some outlets reported that the haircut did not look very good....
Kristaps Porzingis Has Produced The Only Relatable Athlete Workout Videos
This afternoon LeBron James posted a video of himself kneeling on a rubber sphere while waggling a large rubbery wand, that, per our own Tim Burke’s experiences, is liable to knock you right on your ass should you stop waggling it at the right rate. Every fiber of James’s action-figure torso strains...
Put Phil Jackson In Jail And Then Put The Jail In Space
Phil Jackson had millions of sad, tri-state area sphincters clenching after an April presser when he said there was no player on the Knicks who was safe from the trading block. They stayed clenched when Kristaps Porzingis skipped his exit meetings, apparently frustrated after wading through this sew...
Nick Kyrgios Retires From Match After A Nasty Slip On The Grass
Nick Kyrgios’s injury woes continued today in his first-round match at the Queen’s Club Championships, as the tour transitions to a new surface. During his first match on grass—which is well-suited to his ace-hungry game—he slipped and fell, tweaking his knee at an ugly angle. After a medical timeou...
Juan Martin Del Potro's Injury Might Take Him Out Of Wimbledon
There are many ways to describe Juan Martin del Potro: owner of the most devastating forehand in the sport, winner of a Grand Slam at age 20 after beating near-peak Roger Federer, and the dude with the largest heart on tour. But you could hardly describe him as healthy. Years of wrist issues sent hi...
Charming Old Man Defeats Devin Harris In Knockout Game
Devin Harris might be a career 80 percent free-throw shooter, but that didn’t mean diddly once this game of knockout shifted to half-court chucking. An older man who appears to be a staffer at the Mavs Hoop Camp took Harris out with a remarkable heave. Mild fleeing and CPR ensued....
Cool Reflexes, Man
Lucas Pouille, who at one point projected to be a great tennis player but may end up just a good one, saved a match point against Jan-Lennard Struff today with some nifty reflex volleys. A few points later world No. 16 Pouille notched a 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (8) win in his second-round match at the Stu...
Roger Federer Faceplanted On The Grass
That little, fluttery lurch in your stomach? That’s the feeling of your Wimbledon hopes shriveling up just a little bit. Roger Federer, bearing a new haircut and the swollen expectations of fans spoiled by his season to date, was shocked by world No. 302 Tommy Haas in the second round of the Stuttga...
And Now, Back To Your Regularly Scheduled Federer-Nadal Show<em></em>
Rewind the tape all the way back to—sheesh—April 2, the date of Roger Federer’s last professional tennis match, a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Rafael Nadal to win the Miami Open. Afterwards he reportedly told his rival that he, Nadal, would “destroy” the clay court season, and Rafa delivered, piling up a 2...