He hasn’t lost a match at the US Open since the fourth round in 2003.
Two. Thousand. Three.
The thing is, Del Potro isn’t the Future of Tennis, or at least he wasn’t until this week.  He’s unranked, which to us points out some serious flaws in the ranking system.  He’s not Tsonga, who has been around [...]

Tiger Woods. Is. Unstoppable.
This is one of those things we just know, like that the Cubs aren’t going to win it all this year and that barbeque should be eaten with Shiner Bock, and that if you give a mouse a cookie, he will want a glass of…
ok, sorry. It’s Monday, we’re distracted.
Of course, as [...]

Deadspin turned us on (no pun, of course, intended….really…)  to Roger Federer’s  suite at the Carlyle, where he stays only during the US Open every year.
Highlights include:
–a twenty four bottle minibar.  Personally, we’re thinking that anything past single-digit bottle count is rather…maxi.
–bedroom featuring leopard-print rug and mirrored bedposts. Cue whatever music you find most appropriate [...]