You are a writer. You write features. You are supposed to write a feature about a very famous person at a major sporting event, but the event has not started yet, so you have no new reporting or novel insights on the subject. No one does, and no one can. This is a difficulty, perhaps even a metaphysical difficulty; if…
Are you having a Monday? Here is a video of Sir Elton John falling out of his chair after playing in a charity tennis match:
The stars were out for Sunday's Wimbledon final between Djokovic and Federer. The match was attended by various celebrities who acted totally normal, including Hugh Jackman, Bradley Cooper, and Chris Hemsworth. Cut to: Samuel L. Jackson and Victoria Beckham, seated awkwardly next to one another.
[Tennis fans protect themselves from the sun during a first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, on Tuesday. Image via Aaron Favila/AP.]
The British royal family's waking nightmare Pippa Middleton proved once again last week that you can take the girl out of the color coordinated party supply business but you can't remove her hands from the ass of her lover, because they have been firmly attached there with rubber cement. Photographs have surfaced of…
Like any ingenue to the magazine world, Pippa Middleton has glided up the rungs of the media ladder—straight from food columnist for a grocery store leaflet to Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair—in one easy step.
Party rockers on the hardcourt tonight?
Serena Williams dominated Maria Sharapova and won her first singles gold medal at the London Olympics, completing a career Golden Slam — the second ever since Steffi Graf in 1988. Williams celebrated by doing a dance move identified by the internet as the Crip Walk. It has already been immortalized in GIF form.
While Serena "Not the One" Williams searches Flushing Meadows for the umpire she went ballistic on yesterday, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal are currently squaring off in the US Open's men's final. But no matter the match's outcome, nothing will top the unintentionally nasty commentary by Mary Carillo, Dick Enberg…
Remember when Serena Williams went all Joe Pesci on a line referee at the US Open two years ago? Well, during today's women's final match (which she lost in straight sets to Samantha Stosur), she did it again. Here's a video of Williams' full outburst.
Matt Drudge clocks another entry in his "Angry Blacks" series.
Preaching fit! Ninja warriors! Muscle cream! Bulletproof skin! Bite counters! Vanity benefits! Meditation strength! Novak Djokovic! And the stunning origin of the TRX workout trend! It's your Monday Fitness Watch, where we watch fitness—bitingly!
An air of excitement and danger swirled around Portland's Arbor Lodge Park this morning, as a bomb squad cordoned off the area and detonated a tennis ball suspected of being a homemade bomb.
Will baseball tennis be all the rage this summer? Who knows! But it sure beats baseball water polo.
Watch Belgian tennis star Kim Clijsters embarrass commentator Todd Woodbridge on live TV over text messages he sent to a mutual friend. Apparently, he had speculated she was pregnant, as she "looked really grumpy and her boobs are bigger." Awkward!
Tennis pro Agnieszka Radwańska breaks her racket during a return and manages to keep a straight face while simultaneously discovering she has super powers.
If you're planning on streaking a tennis match make sure the court isn't surrounded by glass first.
Remember that rooftop tennis court in Dubai? Well, it's just met its match: here's a video of two of the sport's greats, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, volleying back and forth while standing on a floating tennis court in Qatar.
[We're not entirely sure how this works, but tennis stars Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer play on an aquatic tennis court in Doha, Qatar today to promote the Qatar ATP Open Tennis tournament. Image via AP]
Retired tennis great Pete Sampras had a "majority" of the memorabilia from his days as a champion stolen from a California public storage facility, including rings, medals and trophies. It's very sad, but why was that stuff in public storage?
