It's Wednesday of the first week of the Open.  I have the choice of watching two TV channels - ESPN2 and Tennis Channel.  Thank goodness for live streaming from usopen.org.  ESPN is showing Nadal/Gasquet (which would have been a great potential matchup if Gasquet hadn't had his troubles these last few months, but now it ...

I don't look for reasons to slam Serena.  I admire her for a lot of reasons.  I think she is remarkable athelete and seems like a delightful person in all her interviews.  Over the years, she has withstood tremendous pressure off the court and emerged with great dignity.  Nevertheless, the animal sounds I wrote about are very ...

I am not a fan of the sounds that come out of the loudest female tennis grunters, but some are worse than others.  I do find the sounds that come out of Serena, Venus and Sharapova (De Brito too) worse than most because it sounds like they are trying to intimidate their opponents at the same time they are supposedly pushing themselves.  ...

If I am watching matches live on ESPN and know they won't show me the next match which NBC is showing, I still watch the second match live on the internet through channelsurfing.net or some other website when I can.  If I tape matches and know the match will be shown elsewhere before or after, I skip NBC's coverage whenever I can and watch ...

I agree with you.  I am so tired of what NBC does with its money.  Yes, money talks in this world and NBC pays the most for its rights, but why abuse the privilege it purchases?  No one is going to buy less of their sponsors' products if they get to see replays on other stations.  NBC can make deals, in fact, with the other ...

I have been watching Wimbeldon via ESPN 360 and it is really great to be able to switch between so many different matches.  I don't know if Wimbledon's broadcasts are sharper than the French Open's had been, but they seem to be clearer on my computer.  In England, I believe they broadcast Wimbledon on multiple BBC channels, so they must ...

I said in my original post that I know McEnroe has his fans and some of them post right here on this message board.  However, I come across many more people who totally agree with me.  I miss the old days on ESPN when Fred Stolle and Cliff Drysdale did everything and Mary Carillo was with them in the booth.  Their chemistry helped ...

I know he has his fans, but I just can't stick the guy.  He thinks he is the show and perhaps, to those who are his fans, he is, but to me, he is just an annoyance when he won't shut up.  I was watching the Federer/Acasuso match and it didn't matter if the ball was in play or not - McEnroe had things he had to share at all times, ...