Carlos Alcaraz, only 19 years old became the youngest player since Pete Sampras in 1990, to win the U.S. Open when he defeated Casper Ruud in 4 sets, two days back.
Alcaraz had won three consecutive, grueling 5 set matches before prevailing in 4 sets in the final.
He is now the youngest ever number one ranked player in men’s tennis history.
Iga Swiatek won her first U.S. Open and third major tennis crown, defeating Ons Jabeur (6-2, 7-6) in their final round match yesterday.
Of course the victory is barely publicized, that juxtaposed with the publicity afforded Serena Williams.
Today Carlos Alcaraz is about a 2 to 1 favorite, vs Casper Ruud in the men’s final.
The match begins around 4 P.M. Eastern Time.
Iga Swiatek, pictured above.
The Connecticut Sun scored the last 18 points of the tilt and upset the defending WNBA champion, Chicago Sky (72-63), who were 4 point(s) plus favorites and led by 9 points in the last 4 minutes of play.
Connecticut, which plays at an arena that is part of Mohegan Sun Casino, will open the best of 5 title series in casino abundant, Las Vegas, vs the higher seeded Aces, at 3 P.M. Eastern Time on Sunday, with ABC telecasting the tilt.
Last season, the lower seeded Sky upset the Sun in the semis and went on to win the crown.
This year lower seeded Connecticut pulled the upset.
Let’s see 5 cards and an Ace at the end.
My prediction “honors” the 5 as it will go the maximum 5 games, however, “here comes (a/the) Sun title.
NEW YORK — Hoops Cabaret (48 West 33rd Street) is a great place to watch the championship boxing event featuring Canelo Alvarez vs Gennady Golovkin on Saturday night, September 17th.
Boxing history will be made as future hall of famers Canelo Alvarez and Gennadiy Golovkin meet for a third and final time, with Alvarez’s WBC, WBA, WBO and IBF Championships at stake.
After years of being patient, boxing fans will finally get to see the trilogy fight between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin. The bout takes place inside the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, just like the last two bouts between the two.
At Hoops Cabaret and Sports Bar, fans can watch all the action on the club’s futuristic Mega-Tron Video Wall and numerous HD TVs and flat screens.
You will also enjoy the sexy Hoops Cabaret girls who perform on stage and up close and personal. Hoops Cabaret combines the fun of a sports bar with the excitement of a gentlemen’s club.
And be sure to check out menu items like fried Lobster Tails, Short-rib Sliders, Lemon Pepper Wings, and Kobe Beef Hot Dogs.
HOOPS Cabaret and Sports Bar and its acclaimed second floor “VIP Man Cave” is located at 48 West 33rd Street, New York City, next door to the world famous Rick’s Cabaret NYC.
While the Las Vegas Aces won at Seattle (Storm) in game 4 to wrap their semi 3 games to 1, the Connecticut Sun forced a decisive 5th game with a home rout win vs the defending champion Chicago Sky.
That game will be played tomorrow night in Chicago. Remember each of those teams had to win decisive 3rd games on the road despite having the better record in the best of 3 WNBA first round. As it ought to be and essentially has always been, the better record, Sky play at home in the decisive 5th game.
Meanwhile The Aces won by 5 to eliminate Seattle also ending the great career of the Storm’s Sue Bird.
Las Vegas coach, Becky Hammon, pictured above.
Coincidences abounded all day yesterday starting with those cited in the Saturday post(no evening and actually completed in the morning) and a Michigan sticker on a vehicle before the phone yielded a Michigan rout of 31 point underdog, Colorado State.
In watching “Our Miss Brooks,” the movie, the notes indicated Eve Arden and Gale Gordon as cast members.
Gordon’s character is running for office. His opponent, surprised Gordon’s character would challenge him, is none other than Joseph Kearns.
Gordon and Kearns each played “Mr. Wilson” on “Dennis The Menace.”
Also, the young student in need of tutoring in “Brooks” (there is a baseball name, the great Brooks Robinson), played by Nick Adams, is “Gary Nolan”
Nolan was a fine pitcher on some great Cincinnati Reds teams. One such team, the 1970 version made the World Series, but lost in 5 games, as Brooks Robinson put on one of the great performances in W.S. history.
That incredible performance (Bobby Clemente, dead now nearly 50 years, put on another in the next World Series vs Brooks and the Orioles) included a home run vs Gary Nolan scoring the final run of the Orioles (4-3) game 1 win at Cincinnati, on a Yom Kippur Saturday.
Joseph Kearns, pictured above, played Mr. Wilson on Dennis The Menace. After his death, Gale Gordon played another Mr. Wilson, the character’s brother.
Last night, Ajla Tamljanovic advanced to the round of 16, in the women’s U.S. Open Tournament.
She will face Gill Alexander backed (somehow this guy and others similar get great lines, in this case 8:1 just to make the semis. Samsonova is only 8 to 5 to make the semis and is an over 2 to 1 “fave” vs Tamljanovic) Ludmilla Samsanova in that round.
Hopefully, unlike Brady, Ser Williams will keep her word and retire, falling short (so help me as I typed, “fell short” was said on NPR and soon after “stocks fell”) of the record for women’s so called “Grand Slam” tournament wins.
Again I paid, Beano would have truly chastised me, as Williams, to her credit won as an underdog, before losing as a fave. Beano told me over and over again, “you have to be willing to lose.”
So many times I paid and Williams lost as a fave, (she did not win another such tournament once I started anti-ing).
Sure, I wonder why I would do this, however when she/Williams referred to herself as third person Serena, at least a reason to dislike her manifests (what an ego she has, alas many sports great have such).
I firmly stand vs the hype, which led by S.A. Smith and the monolith, ESPN, was by any standard, beyond excessive, triggering such emotions in those of us who dislike Williams and really can not stand the hype.
Ludmilla Samsonova, pictured above.
You have to trust me and this can almost be verified. As I continued, essentially “venting,” the NPR Weekend Edition in its local phase was to look back at Williams career. Of course, as is my right, I will shut it off.
However, before I do the next piece involves a reporter named Steven (Spelling?) Smith, evoking the dreaded, aforementioned S.A. Smith.
G-d is trying to tell me something and I will try to move forward and away from this.
Yesterday, among other things, marked the 91 year anniversary of college football expert, Beano Cook’s birth.
Some comments germane to Beano, as the tenth full college football season without him on earth, moves into full swing tomorrow.
On the anniversary of Beano’s birth, two teams he was so emotionally involved with (Pro Pittsburgh, anti Penn State) scored victories more or less “on the number.” I can hear Beano saying he grades his picks, based on the U.S.A. Today line.
Surely Beano would be taking another team he did not like, Notre Dame, as they are getting a generous 17 plus points in tomorrow night’s tilt at Ohio State. I will predict the way Beano would have–Ohio State 28 Notre Dame 18.
Beano also would have talked about one of college football’s greatest games in which 18 points was enough for a Notre Dame victory at Ohio State (18-13) in 1935.
Notre Dame won again the next year, however Ohio State has won the other 4 tilts vs Notre Dame all since 1995, two in the Fiesta Bowl. I believe they also “covered” in all 4 of those wins.
Hopefully, tomorrow night will be what Beano likened to a woman “liking” him and also paying for dinner, as would be the case if Ohio State wins by 17 points or less.
The program from Notre Dame at Ohio State in 1935.
First off, and this is aimed at you Tom Brady, are we sure that Williams is retiring?
Next like her or not, one must on one side, acknowledge her great career and on the other, her repeated failures in the last few years.
I add her behavior after two major tournament losses, the way she was “machined” to greatness, certainly of the monetary kind and thus as is my right, root against her.
She has already made a “run,” is a 3 to 2 “fave” in her next match (win it and I will “shout” your name, that to her opponent).
Some day God/G-d will ask me why I always seem to go vs the prevailing sentiment?
I will answer he/she or it, thusly (a fitting word), what is right is not always popular and what is popular is not only not always right, but often not right.
How else dear G-d, would you explain Stephen A. Smith’s (he who has a front row seat on the Williams bandwagon) rise from eating tuna? sandwiches for dinner (alas there are people with far less than that) to virtual royalty?!
Ms. Williams first name, perhaps rudely not noted above, is Serena.
While again, my opinion, her behavior after at least two major tournament losses, was/is not as bad as that of the “Serena” character on Bewitched pictured above, it constituted very poor sportsmanship.
Below a paragraph regarding the quote “what is popular is not always right and what is right is not always popular.”
If what is popular isn’t always right and what is right isn’t always popular, then we shouldn’t, Einstein is saying, derive our ethics from following what everyone else is doing. We have to look into our own hearts and minds and evaluate for ourselves if a course of action is morally right. We can’t rely on the crowd.
Andy B Sports 