Why do we have to wait for NBC to air it tonight? Go online.. NBC scheduled at 7:30pm when it’s happening in the morning. In the past, NBC or other major net works would get hammered for not broadcasting live, like French Open. That’s in the past, we had no recourse. Now it’s the Youtube era. My cousin got up at 4am in LA and is watching it online.
Michelle Wie has just skipped a Ladies major in order to play with the boys. She has never won a title with the girls. Many people, pros or fans feel the PGA – men’s tour should have a rule to require girls have to win five Ladies’ title before she could qualify for the boy’s tour. I think that’s a good start. Before her first major win, Danica Patrick faced pressure too, but was not the same kind. There isn’t a ladies racing league. (My advice to Milka Duno .. win a race before throw in your towel !!)
People are blaming the bad advice Wie’s getting from her parents. David Remnick profiled Lang Lang for the New Yorker 8/4 issue, under the title The Olympian. In which he recounted when Lang was studying at the Curtis, his father was very controlling .. once Lang’s teacher Gary Graffman said to him that
“You are worse than a Jewish mother.” 🙂 ..
Lang came out on top. Not sure Wie would have the same fate (or luck).
Heard this was coming for a while, now she’s here. I’ve never heard of Ashley Harkleroad until she posted for the Playboy. Few had predicted in the past that she would be the America’s answer to Anna K. Guess not. Posting won’t do any thing to her tennis career, but might open doors to other venues after she retires. Whatever the reason she cited, I just can’t image
any top 10 girls in tennis doing it. Maria and Ana are pretty, ..
What do golf, Formula One and US presidential race in common? Come on, you can guess that easily. Black man. Strictly speaking, mix-raced person with dark skin more then the other half. The phenomenon in the Formula One in Europe now is the 22 years old Lewis Hamilton, an English whose grandfather Davidson was from Grenada in the West Indies, mother Carmen a white.
Formula One is the top level in auto racing. Danica Patrick is the IndyCar racer, the American open wheel racing, as vs the NASCAR, the stock cars. F-1 used to be the sports for the titled Europeans. Steffi Graf dated driver Michael Bartels for seven years. He was a F-3 driver, never qualified for F-1. In the US, there are two types of auto racing (in general), Grand prix, open wheel and the stock car. I think the sport is changing too. In the past, the drivers had the air of a gentleman and cultured. Not sure that still applies today, especially when he is only 22. This isn’t to say that the younger ones won’t develop to be sophisticated adults.
Long ago, when Golfer spotted the news that Formula One was going to build a track in Zhuhai in the SEZ, he said he’ll visit China when it opens. Years late, the track relocated to Shanghai. It opened for business for a few years, but Golfer had since lost his appetite for China.
However, he did drag me to a NASCAR race in PA. The Andretti family is from Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Father Mario has all three: F-1, Indy and NASCAR. It was a gorgeous day. But each exits were so far apart in the Poconos, we failed to gauge the distance (map quest hasn’t become popular) correctly and missed the parade and the starting of the race. Once we sat down, I noticed we were the only Asians in a Pacific Ocean of large sized rednecks. They all well prepared for the race: huge coolers and chips. The sound of chip chewing was drown by the nosier, no the ear splitting cars. After the race, the party moved from the bleachers to the parking lot. Needless to say, we stranded there for another 2 more hours. Can’t say I didn’t enjoy it, but I would rather be at some other place .. no telling Golfer, I’m a supportive, mute and obedient wife.
Sports Illustrated has Michael Phelps on the cover, projecting 8 gold medals in Beijing. Yeeeeessss, you go boy wonder. He isn’t excel just in one event, but all four strokes – butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle. That, Is, Remarkable. At 6’4″ (6’7″ wing), he should be at the other end of the pool in no time, especially swims in the short course, 25 yards. I’ll be screaming for Dara too, and the Williamses ..
I hope US and China don’t compete head to head often. Will they clean out the gold medals? If not all, at least 90%. Leave whatever they don’t care to the rest of the world to fight over with. Don’t hate me, I’m pathetic, okay?!?!
Isn’t it amusing to see “Golf shocker: Rising start Michelle Wie disqualified”? Rising star? Oui .. Wie the Anna Kournikova .. I thought her career is pretty much over, thanks to her parents. Ok, it’s over the top statement,.. ..but not too far from the fact, right? Look at Lorena Ochoa, how should the press dab her?
Wow .. wondering if Al Sharpton knew any of this, that the South China Morning Post reported Friday that the crackdown on bars included police forcing bar managers in the popular Sanlitun district to sign agreements pledging not to allow black people into bars during the Olympic Games, as well as other “undesirable” elements.
I think what’s happened here is CNN = I have no clue.
Of course the local authorities and bar managers denied the report. But I’m amused that this thought was even entertained.
Can someone light me up: what’s the Olympic footballgames? CNN reported that’ll be played in Worker’s Stadium. I knew soccer and the New York Giants. Olympic football? You got me there.
Yuppppy, I served an ace. I haven’t served in a long time, thought I don’t know how by now. Had few double faults but managed to win the Canadian doubles. Feeling great. My right arm is ok. Tuesday night at badminton, Jordan (the older) Fan was there too. He left at end of last year to get married. During his absence, my right arm’s in pain, so I started to play with my left. When my left wrist got hurt (how???), I began to play with my right arm again. He joked, “oh .. sorry .. now you’ll need to play with your foot ..” We played well and won all our sets, except the last one, a 7-point game. By then I was just too tired to even move. He’s been going to Sam’s game on Mondays/Fridays and trying to get me going too. It’s too far and parking is hard. This morning I had good tennis game too. More double faults than I’d like, but I held all my serves.
Chris Evert married golfer Greg Norman after their engagement last December. I’m happy to see two oldies (50+ is old?) found love again, but neutral on her, except I don’t enjoy watching her as a player and thought she was out of line by criticizing the Williams sisters for having other interests in life. Your interests Chrisie, aside from tennis? Marrying?
The Federer vs. Nadal last Sunday at Wimbledon was an epic match. Times sports section usually does a good job. But what is this editorial trying to do here? Can’t you leave the fun to the sports writers who knows their stuff, or at least not losing us? Giving tennis a new topography? .. what are you talking about??
The rain delays did us wonder. Thought the match would be over when we got back from the Berkshires. But it didn’t! We watched the fifth set screaming our lungs out, Pumpkin and I. We were both for Roger. Actually I didn’t mind that Nadal won. Thank lord was not the pig Sergio García who hasn’t won a major yet. Nadal brings to mind ‘brute’. Marat Safin jokingly said Nadal’s running like a rabbit, :), .. but he’s very likable kid, minors the G-string. Is he losing his hair already?
