Previewing the 2011 French Open: Men’s Edition

Is it time for a changing of the guard? That’s the big story currently dominating the men’s side of the draw. Unlike the women’s draw, all the big names will put their names on the line at Roland Garros, so there will be no asterisk for the man who emerges from the draw to take the championship. We’ve watched the top dog become the third wheel, and a guy who was formerly the odd man out blaze a path through the winter and spring... Read More

When Immortals Reveal Their Mortality

At the risk of looking the fool, I come not to praise but to bury. But as the old saying goes, “The king is dead; long live the king!” I’ve done this before, mind you. Athletes who dominate a sport must eventually, inevitably come back from the zenith of their flight through the record books and back to the earth that is the provenance of the everyman. But picking that date of expiration is such a volatile and finicky pseudo-science... Read More

The Importance of the Proper Diet

In this era of sports, where we are always on the lookout for the next athlete to get caught with performance-enhancing drugs, it runs counter to the way we intuitively think to realize how many athletes might be suffering from an intake of performance-hindering substances. Yet after Novak Djokovic revealed recently that he had changed his diet to combat gluten allergies, it is amazing how little we consider the everyday calories that athletes put... Read More

NTSF 129: Fighting Through Adversity…

Boy, do I really need a new pair of glasses. Constructed as much out of electrical tape and Gorilla Glue as they are the original frames these days, my literal worldview just keeps getting more and more askew as they warp and wind around. Yet despite the fact that I seem to be harder on spectacles than Djokovic on his rackets, I keep on persevering. Perhaps that’s why I always see things a little differently… and that’s not necessarily... Read More

NTSF 125: Back in the Technological Saddle

I feel like a kid tearing through a bucket of Halloween candy. We’re in the final stages of our move back across town to the apartment complex we temporarily left to help a friend in need, and it sure feels good to be back. Once again I have a tennis court mere footsteps away, and a pool is accessible every toasty summertime day. But what really has this Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America excited is simply being tied back into 21st-century... Read More

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