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I am not too sure what happened in the final because I had a heart attack mid way through... just kidding but it could have been the case! We more or less got the match we expected as far as what the two players produced, but the dramaturgy of it all was unexpected. Federer tried to be...

I did not watch the final, but 6-0 sets are not uncommon in women tennis because the serve/return equilibrium is, generally, slightly in favor of the return, while it is firmly in favor of the serve in men's tennis. LOL at Pospisil and Sock winning the double though! That's so far out of left...

We have our final. The old generation is not old enough or the new generation still too young. DJOKOVICmanaged to do just enough against an inspired but ultimately too generous Dimitrov. The Bulgarian served brilliantly through the first set... only to gift a break to his opponent with four...

If there was a damning video, he would not be pleading non guilty.

My man Thabo is going to the Atlanta Hawks? They went 7 games against the Pacers so they must do some things right...

Good luck proving intent unless he told someone or wrote something about it. They can make 20 theories as to why he should have noticed his son in the car, that will not change the fact that the very definition of being distracted is 'not noticing things that you should notice'. They can...

Since Obama got elected it's cool again to be american. Just say you voted for him! Also, while food poisoning is certainly avoidable, any radical change in diet will have your digestive system not too happy (nothing bad though). That said, the average north american diet is not that...

Supposedly, a very good movie. I believe it seeing this trailer.

Nadal might have been a little bitter after his defeat but he pointed several things in interview that are not untrue: - It's a lot easier for Kyrgios to play the way he did as the youngster with no pressure enjoying the big stage. Can he play through a season like that and know similar...

Calling a new IP without zombies and/or boobs a cash grab is a bit of a reach. If anything, they probably suffered from a limited budget and tight schedule that did not allow them to make the game they hoped they could do.

No Rain! We have our semi finals! DJOKOVIC[1] sprinted to win the first set 6-1, but then things got complicated. Cilic served well, played well, proved more reliable than Djokovic on the backhand side and the serb had a lot of trouble with his footing. The cost: 6-3 7-6 for a pumped up...

While most members of the swiss team are first or second generation immigrants (which is not a huge surprise in a country with almost 30% of its inhabitant being foreign and immigrant making in average more children), it should be noted that, out of the 23 selected for the WC in Brazil, 17 are...

We need a psychoanalyst in this thread. This whole 'we suck, but we're better than you and would be the best if we wanted to' dance feels like a mix of paranoia and insecurity. If it can make you feel better, I watched this World Cup's coverage on swiss, french and english TV and they all had...

I think she had to withdraw from her double match as she had trouble with coordination and dizziness or something and she went straight to the hospital. It's supposed to be a viral illness of some kind and nothing too serious and she tried to play through it and could not. /shrug Talking...

We have our quarter finals! DJOKOVIC[1] played a very serious game against Tsonga, making the most of any little gap left by his opponent. Not many of those in the third round though when, much to Djokovic's chagrin, the whole crowd pushed behind the explosive frenchman. More than chagrined...

That's a little unfair, there was a number of dangerous fast breaks always with a number of players sprinting up the pitch to crowd the box, but the finishing touches were lacking. In this end we saw a lot of entertaining matches in this round of 16 (some by the quality of play, some by the...

Nope. You play until the end of extra time no matter what.

If the first 5 pk are missed by both team, 5 other shooters are then put on a list and I beleive it's sudden death. If they all miss, the keepers shoot. If they miss, you start over in the same order (still sudden death). No coin flip ever involved. A couple years ago there was an Africa's Cup...

This season was not very good. There was a handful of very good jokes lost in a sea of awkward. The TV show storyline hardly paid off, the retarded son was rarely amusing, the indecent proposal had no progression and even the big concept episode did not work so well (the evening dinner where...

Truth be told, the only winning team that looked good so far has been Colombia. It was a struggle for all the others.

The... opponent?

What about Deco? I am not sure he was a diver, but he certainly did not put much effort on staying on his feet!

Obviously can't type grape properly either.

10% adjusting formation and/or strategy, 10% shouting at the ref, 80% "WTF are you doing!". Set plays on corners or free-kicks are decided on the fly by the players. but often trained beforehand (like the surprise 1st post deflection by the koreans). As for the penalties, the one that got...

The odd thing is the number of cards that were given in this match. It really does not match the spirit in which it is played (not super happy friendly, but not a knife fight either). At this rate, it will end at 10 against 9.

In theory round 3 should be done, but rain decided otherwise, so some round 3 matches have not even started yet. And of course today was People's Sunday, another of these WB idiosyncrasies: no tennis is played on the middle Sunday... We can still check what happened so far. DJOKOVIC[1] at...

Pretending that a foul was committed when none was is a foul. Exaggerating the effect of an existing foul is not.

A keeper can already take a yellow for delay of game, which means that, in theory, he can be sent-off by accumulation of yellow cards. I have never seen that happen though.

That's not exactly true. A foul that results in a direct free kick always results in a penalty kick if it happens in the box, but a foul that results in an indirect free kick remains an indirect free kick in the box. True though that the last time I saw an indirect free kick in the box was when...

While it's horrible for Mexico to go from qualified, to over-time to eliminated in the span of 8 minutes, it's not exactly unfair. They have been very rarely dangerous after they scored the 1-0 and at the end of the game they were so tired and nervous they were unable to get out of their half...

I always wonder how the shooter lists are built... Having as first striker the guy who just missed the game winner seems like asking for trouble, as does asking Neymar to shoot when he was cramping during the last few minutes of the match.

Interesting article, but never forgetJahangir Khanthe god of squash (for which fitness is paramount).

I disagree with that statement. It's very rare that the ending of a basketball match is even mildly dramatic, because the gap is often just too big, so players go through the motions for the last few possessions or big but enough to try and do something, so it becomes a boring game of...

My dark horse is Nishikori as I expect the grass to be nice on his joints and he lost very few matches when fit this season.

No commercial break every 5 minutes is what kills soccer on TV in the US. That said, I saw some matches on Italian TV and they had micro-commercials they fit during the many short breaks there are in a half. As for film-making, it should be said that there are different traditions for filming...

Round 2 is (almost) completed! Some top dogs got shaken and some fell: Ferrer! Gasquet! Gulbis! Kohlschreiber! Youzhny! DJOKOVIC[1] dodged a bullet as Stepanek won the third set in a breaker and forced another breaker in the fourth... but lost it. R32: Simon beat Haase. I expect Djokovic...

People still know Wilt Chamberlain and he stopped playing 41 years ago. Or by 'any' do you mean any of the current crop of players?