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I don't understand why anyone could think a middle finger is offensive. See, right here in front of your nose.

Oh, why doesn't Gasol do the slant eye thing again? Or maybe the worldwide outrage has pulled him out of ignorance a bit?

The Anglo-Saxon culture judges a person based so much on the individual's oral communications, specifically ENGLISH oral communications.

I remember she used to hit 1HBH?

So is this how you treat your own game too? if you can't play as the top dog, you would rather not play because you're being "disrepected"? What's really sad is that you can't see how hypocritical you are.

The communist label on China is one biggest misnomer these days. Strange thing is that both the West and the Chinese themselves insist on it. China has its own cultural and social norms. It is pretty naive to think that they don't care about their own envrionment. It sure wasn't a prioirty...

No doubt but everyone here seems to have conveniently ignored the temperature and humidity mentioned in the OP and chose to focus instead solely on pollution. Have you never seen a hazy day in your own backyard? When the humidity and heat seem to freeze everything in the air? The stale hot...

Please provide your source.

Done nothing? Have you been reading the news or just have the habit of thumbing your nose at anything related to China? They have closed down hundreds of factorys around Beijing, taking half of the vehicles off the roads (even/odd license plate numbers). In addition to the pollution, the...

Tennis matches don't start until 8/10. So they arrived a bit earlier than usual. Are they gonna spend some time goofing around like the US basketball players/ Some of those guys spent hours in a full-"service" massage place in Macau the day before and yesterday it showed in their near-miss in...

yes, I believe they purposely made the surface the same as the USO's so it wouldn't be too much of a transition. The time difference is already a challenge. Like I said, ATP/WTA/IOC/China/Sponsors all want tennis to be a big sport in Beijing. this is a small thing they can to make it easier...

I don't know if he purposely tanked it or not but knowing that he's #1 would have most likely taken some mental edge off his game. He's visibly not focused in that match with mishits all over the place.

Huh? I know many like you don't like him. It's an English board after all but at least get your facts straight. He won in Canada in 2005, won in Dubai in 2006 (beating Fed), won in Indian Wells in 2007. So he has won at least one major Masters Series HC event every year in the past four...

So which part struck you as being strange? Sounds like him to me. If you are referring to the grammar it's probably because either he's interviewed in Spanish and then translated or someone at AP massaged his words and got rid of the "no?'s"

Exactly my point. Things change. The Games have evolved dramatically in the past 20 years. It used to be more of an amateur event because sports as a business wasn't so big and wasn't so globalized. It's a different world now. The Games itself is a multi-billion-dollar enterprise. Points...

nah, I don't think so. Spain is good at a lot of other sports. There are Spanish athletes with higher profiles and popularity.

Like what I alluded above, ATP/WTA want their players to go, sponsors want them to go, player's countries want them to go, and most players want to go. Do you need more cold business and cozy noble reasons to see why your rhetoric doesn't make sense?

It's a pretty naive thought. With your logic the NBA is freaking nuts by sending/allowing its best players to go. Maybe you don't know but most of the NBA players actually want to be on the Oplymic teams of their countries. The Olymic Games cut across the sports landscape in a very unique...

The diamand shaped holes above each end of the court are a bit creepy. If you shank a ball, it's like the stadium smirking at you.

As NBC has the rights to the entire Olympic Games, I doubt TC would broadcast any matches from Beijing. And NBC won't show anything live, not even the Opening Ceremony, so everything you'll watch will be 12+ hours delayed. We'd be lucky to catch a glimpse of the tennis final at most given that...

Not to mention the dozens of substitutes basketball allows. There is a fundamental difference between team sports and individual sports.

If Nadal wins career grand slams in the next year or two, I can see that he'd skip a lot of these HC tournaments after that. Like what the Williams sisters do. Playing as well as Nadal does on clay and grass, it'd be enough to keep him in the top 10 even if he only shows up on HC for AO and USO.

And if Nadal doesn't win Cincy, there's a chance Fed can keep the #1 spot by winning the Olympics, which has 400 pts. So it's almost imperative for Nadal to win Cincy to break Fed's streak.

Olympics Opening Ceremony is on 8/8 and tennis doesn't start until 8/10. He has ten days. Is he heading straight to Beijing this weekend or hanging around in the US for a few more days? I heard he might be carrying the flag again for Switzerland at the Opening Ceremony so it means he needs to...

My point is, many people here say the very reason that he didn't S&V at Wimby was because the surface was slow. Now unless we agree that Cincy is slow too, that logic doesn't hold, does it? The other school of thinking, which is oftetn laughed off here, is just like what you say, baseline...

So did they sand off Cincy courts to make it slow too? Is that why Fed didn't S&V much either?

Lesson #1: Don't get old. Or win what you can win when you are young. Hey, your libido drops considerably from 18 to 27. So don't deny it.

It's the consensus that Cincy has one of the fastest outdoor surface, if not THE fastest. So why didn't Fed S&V more? One argument that he didn't S&V more at Wimby is that the surface there is slow, as a matter of fact, slow as in the category of clay. So why not at Cincy? Particularly when...

Apparently the computer guy doens't care much about women's tennis and sabotaged it:)