Recent content by Blakeslee

Rick these are all great points (so to speak). I just think these kinds of things were overwhelmed by the massive jump in power and fitness he made at the time.

Djokovic has always been a talented player, but I don't see how you can explain away the remarkable transformation he underwent in 2011. He made huge jumps in both power and fitness. What sticks in my memory is the Nadal versus Djokovic U.S. Open final where Patrick McEnroe kept referring to...

Oh how I would love to be a fly on the wall in the locker room during Novak Djokovic's post second set off court breaks.

I just read the article on Velo News about Kelly, I was deeply moved and saddened to read about what happened to her. My Mom had a similar experience to what it sounds like Kelly went through. My Mom was hospitalized back in the late 1980s with an infection in her brain, the nature of which was...

Djokovic has reached absurd new heights. It is depressing knowing that likely this will continue for years with no consequences and nobody even looking too hard into what he may be doing. History repeats itself once again.

Just checking in with my semi annual observation that Serena Williams is still blatantly on P.E.D.s. That is all.

I didn't know Paul personally, but this feels like losing a friend. My sincere condolences go out to everyone who knew and worked with him, particularly to his family and Phil Ligget.

It has been disgusting watching the love fest for Maria Sharapova in the U.S. television coverage of the U.S. Open. Poor Maria was just an unwitting victim of an unintentional oversight when she forgot to check that meldonium had been added to the banned list. Nevermind the fact that she had...

Re: I don't understand why more questions aren't being asked about Venus. She has essentially been a non factor in the major tournaments for a long time now and suddenly she has made her second major final of the year? The U.S. television coverage is frustrating to watch, they are in full...

I think Federer continuing to perform at such a high level at age 35 should invite speculation and questions. That being said I would agree with what Serious Sam said above and I'm not sure he is playing all that differently than he has been over the past several seasons. In a number of grand...

Re: I think I may have been watching too much curling lately. While watching Paris-Roubaix I found myself yelling at Peter Sagan "Hard! Go Hard!!!"

Re: Re: Thanks for the background about the OLN founder, I had not heard that about him before. I certainly remember watching lots of great cycling on OLN, that was definitely a golden age for cycling coverage in the U.S. Seems like we're heading backwards towards the days of waiting for the...

I was really disappointed to discover NBC Sports has moved all of their streaming behind a paywall. The $20 fee for NBC Sports Gold seems more than reasonable, but it feels like piling on when you consider how much you already pay for a cable subscription. They are showing the replay of Paris...

Re: Sky I'm not sure how anyone can continue to credibly defend Team Sky at this point. The stocks of triamcinolone would seem to explain the tremendous power output we have seen from the Sky riders with their downright skeletal physiques. It will be interesting to see if we will see any of...

Just when you thought those days were over, another Williams vs Williams final. Sigh...