I’m rooting for the Tampa Bay Rays over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series not just because they’re a Florida team but because they’re the underdog, a team with one of the lowest payrolls in baseball. The Dodgers, by contrast, have one of the highest; pitcher Clayton Kershaw earns more in a year than the entire Rays squad, which contains a number of players who bounced around a lot before landing in Florida. My favorite is first baseman Ji-Man Choi, the first Korean to play in a World Series. Wednesday evening, after a Dodger took first base on a walk, Choi gave him a friendly pat on the helmet.
Iga Swiatek won the French Open without losing a set during the entire tournament, and Jan-Krzysztof Duda ended Magnus Carlsen's 125-match winning streak in chess.
I understand that Nadal rules at Roland Garros, but must the floral design on Court Philippe Chatrier incorporate the colors of the Spanish flag?
I've been enjoying the French Open, particularly Iga Swiatek's upset yesterday of Simona Halep. (The Polish teen reminds me of the students I taught in Warsaw). But I've been bothered by one thing: The players are often wearing leggings and long sleeves while the ballkids - who never get to work up a sweat - are still in their summery uniform of shorts and polo shirt.
If you’re a sports fan, this is truly a golden autumn. In addition to the usual glut of football games – college and professional – most days of the week, and the a tad tardy baseball playoffs, there are, this year, the even more delayed basketball playoffs and, for the next two weeks, the French Open, where you get to see some of the greatest tennis players in the world wearing long sleeves. Autumn in Paris.
If you’re a Miami sports fan, you’re probably wishing that every season could be an abbreviated season.
I'm just back from tennis and I'm trying to decide if I find wind preferable to humidity.