ANDY RODDICK RETIRED FROM PROFESSIONAL tennis last week, making good on his promise to quit at the end of his US Open run. Rather than focus on any specific aspect of Roddick’s career – that stuff will be covered by those more knowledgable than myself, if it hasn’t happened already – I’ll instead talk...
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What did we learn this week? Well, that Kerry Fraser and figure skating don’t own a monopoly on bad officiating, that NBC has become their own unwatchable sitcom, the Second Amendment kills people, and that hate and ignorance don’t know the difference between Sikhs and Muslims. Darren Bifford, author of Wedding in Fire Country,...
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How Hitler, Hollywood, sweatbands, popped collars and liquid robots star in one of sport’s greatest grail quests. IN 1934, SHORTLY AFTER ADOLF HITLER’s rise to power, German tennis star Gottfried Alexander Maximilian Walter Kurt Freiherr von Cramm, or simply, Gottfried von Cramm, won the French Open. Von Cramm, for Hitler, was...
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