Tennis

Do you still believe in professional tennis?

February 11, 2016 general

Thursday, 6 a.m. I swung by the tennis courts the other day. Almost no one was home. There was one court being used. A guy who looked like he was trying to beat his mule was playing a guy looked like he had last played in the Crimean War. I’m not sure, but I think […]

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Remembering experiencing Wimbledon cheaply

June 30, 2015 general

Wimbledon is a tennis tournament on a hot day for a kid trying to chase down a bus from a church parking lot. It is a half-hour bouncing through the traffic, while men in thick wool suits try to ignore the impossible heat by drinking sodas that do not have ice. It is women is […]

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