Jelena Jankovic Everyone knows who the big winners were over the weekend… Northern Iowa, Cornell, Butler, even Duke and Ohio State, who had their most highly-ranked competition vanquished from the NCAA Brackets.  But there were two other winners, Ivan Ljubicic and Jelena Jankovic, that because...

I read in today’s NY Daily News that Serena Williams is training to be a nail technician. Doesn’t surprise me one bit. Ever since they hit the tennis scene over a decade ago, Serena and her sister Venus have changed the way fans think about the sport.  They were the prime movers in increasing...

Alessia Andrade Ran across a news item about a Hispanic sports awards ceremony last Thursday, which I reported on over at Baseball Digest.  By all accounts it was a great event and helped benefit The Ganley Foundation, a worthy cause. My favorite part was not that U.S. Open tennis champ Juan Martín...

This was a great week for football and I couldn’t be more happy with some of the plays and games I saw today.  Brett Favre won the opener for the Vikings today by handing the ball off to Adrian Peterson.  Take a look at Adrian’s 64 yard run with some punishing stiff-arms: Adrian Peterson...

The US Open seems to get lost in the mix as the football season is starting up and the MLB playoffs are getting closer and closer.  This sad but true reality really makes many people miss the great game of tennis being played on the fastest surface of the Grand Slam Tournament.  The hard court of Flushing...

I was reading an article in the Wall Street Journal the other day that really struck me as shocking.  When you hear players signing for millions, its hard to understand that in smaller terms, but nevertheless this article in which I read does just that.  It breaks down how quickly some athletes in...