It was a wonderful weekend for people who like college basketball and tennis, and a great one if you went to Villanova and married a Polish woman in Warsaw.
For many Floridians, a season without spring training is like a month without sunshine.
In his interview with the BBC, Novak Djokovic spoke in such reasoned, thoughtful tones that it was easy to overlook the callousness of his stance (to refrain from receiving the COVID vaccine). His defense was all about his “freedom,” as an “elite athlete,” to decide what he wants to put into his body; never was any mention made of his responsibility as a citizen of the planet. Already by the second utterance of “elite” I was hearing instead the word “selfish.”
I learned this weekend that the basketball coach at my alma mater receives a salary of seven million dollars. At least now when the school comes asking for money I'm not going to feel guilty saying 'no.'
Every tennis fan knows the letdown, the feeling of meaninglessness, that comes the Monday after a major final. Though thanks to the executives at ESPN, who put many of the Australian Open matches on a channel most viewers don’t subscribe to, today it is a little milder.