Every team I rooted for in the NFL playoffs lost, a perfect record explained only in part by my lifelong love of the underdog.
But in tennis, the man I was pulling for to win the Australian Open, the red-headed, mild-mannered, soft-spoken Italian with the unlikely name of Jannik Sinner, lifted the championship trophy, two days after defeating the hot-headed, racket-smashing defending champion Novak Djokovic.
So, sportswise, a not entirely lost weekend.
