Bach On Moog Synthesizer, Joyce On iPhone

MYER-ED IN HUMOR: Of the John Isner-Nicolas Mahut Wimbledon marathon, ESPYS host Seth Myers said, “No one has spent that much time on grass since Cheech and Chong.”  Added the SNL funnyman, “By the time the match ended, the ball boys were ball men.” AND THEY SAY WE AMERICANS ARE A LITIGIOUS BUNCH: Lleyton Hewitt [...]

Return of the Spice Girls

Kournikova, Hingis Team Up at Wimbledon

LONDON — Helen Wills vs. Suzanne Lenglen in Cannes in 1926; Bobby Riggs vs. Jack Kramer in Madison Square Garden in 1947; BJK vs. Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes in Houston in 1973 — exhibitions and special events have long been a part of the fabric of tennis.

What, No Rattles, Klaxons or Vuvuzelas?

SAY IT AIN’T SO: The All England Club has banned vuvuzelas (those renowned World Cup noisemakers) from Wimbledon.  Said Ian Ritchie, “Rattles, klaxons and vuvuzelas all fall into that category.  Our message is do not bring them in the first place.”…For the first time in its 133-year history, there will be no English players in [...]

Love Match at ‘99 French: Agassi, Graf Connect at Scene of Greatest Triumphs

Ten years ago, Andre Agassi, arguably the most popular U.S. competitor ever, made a big play for Steffi Graf, arguably the greatest women’s player ever. The scene was Roland Garros, site of some of Agassi’s most harrowing defeats, and a place where Graf had met with both triumph and sorrow. Agassi, who had divorced actress [...]

32 Questions

1. Why today do the immortal words of Red Smith come to mind today? After Bobby Thompson hit his historic ’51 home to lift the New York Giants over the Brooklyn Dodgers Smith wrote, “Now it is done. The art of fiction is dead. Only the utterly implausible, the inexpressibly fantastic can ever be plausible [...]

More Nooks and Crannies than an English Muffin

Andy Roddick Triumphs in “Siberia”

This was hardly Babe Ruth swatting home runs in Durham, North Carolina, or Michael Jordan going to the rim at “the Cage” – Greenwich’s Village’s West 4th Street public hoops court. Rather, this was Andy Roddick, the mighty mojo man and former No. 1 with the fastest serve on the planet, out on Court 2 [...]

SPLASH BACK: Maria Sharapova, the High Profile Face of the ‘Russian Revolution,’ Splashes Back Right in the Middle of the Tennis Pool

On the one hand, Maria Sharapova was and remains the face of the seemingly endless Russian Revolution. As the Wall Street Journal once said, she’s the “most public face of the new Russian woman – talented, self-assured, ambitious and independent. Until recently, there were almost no such women in Russia.”

Ole Madrid: Safina Leaves Rome Red Hot, Gasquet Test Positive for Coke

SUNDAY, MAY 10 – Dinara Safina backed her status as the tour’s top ranked player in a huge way in Rome, besting Venus Williams in a classic three-setter and then on Saturday, capturing her first title this season over the same woman who had taken her down the week prior, Svetlana Kuznetsova, 6-3, 6-2.