TENNIS US OPEN – They figured it out a long time ago in Hollywood and just across the river from here on Broadway: You need a...
TENNIS US OPEN – Up at the Stadium, they said farewell to Derek Jeter on Sunday, gave the Yankee shortstop of 20 years his special day....
TENNIS US OPEN – Suddenly, Roger Federer looked older. It wasn’t so much the creases in his face, the age lines. It was the creases in...
TENNIS US OPEN – She’s rolling now, crushing opponents and symbolically all those who doubted her. A season that seemed destined to go nowhere for Serena...
TENNIS US OPEN – He was down two sets to none, and even Roger Federer thought the end might be near, that he could be knocked...
TENNIS US OPEN – It was warm. It was late. But heat and time couldn’t stop Novak Djokovic. Neither could Andy Murray. On a night that...
TENNIS US OPEN — We’ll borrow those familiar lyrics, about making it here, making it in the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps—or shuts up....
TENNIS US OPEN — Now it gets serious. Now the men’s game, existing almost in a vacuum while the ladies battered each other and the seedings—joyful...
TENNIS US OPEN — We called her the Woz, a word play on the Wiz, and on a court Caroline Wozniacki certainly looked like a wiz,...
TENNIS WIMBLEDON 2014 – It wasn’t Novak Djokovic’s first hurrah, his victory Sunday in the Wimbledon men’s final, but it might have been Roger Federer’s last....
TENNIS WIMBLEDON 2014 – Old guys rule. In tennis, of course, that means men in their late 20s, like Novak Djokovic, or early 30s, like Roger...
TENNIS WIMBLEDON 2014 – The cliché about Canada is that it is a great place for beer and hockey players, but the line needs updating. Add...
TENNIS WIMBLEDON 2014 – He’s as modern as today, with a diamond stud in his left earlobe. He’s as old-fashioned as serve-and-volley tennis. Nick Kyrgios—“The Wild...
TENNIS WIMBLEDON 2014 – Serena Williams has to face reality now, which for a champion is more difficult than facing an opponent. She has to give...
TENNIS WIMBLEDON 2014 — Novak Djokovic didn’t do it in the Australian, where he usually does it. He didn’t do it in the French, where he’s...
TENNIS WIMBLEDON 2014 – She won a match Wednesday, beat a woman, Kurumi Nara, even lower in the rankings than she is. Venus Williams kept herself...