5. TENNIS: Roger Federer announces retirement:Roger Federer will retire from pro tennis at age 41 after an epic career in which he won 20 Grand Slam titles (third all-time) and ended five seasons ranked No. 1 in the world. A series of knee operations have beset his late career. Federer...
It’s a personal attack, and the feeling that followed was “I want to go home”… and for the first time in nearly two years, I knew that home was Birmingham, Alabama. With some help from a dear friend, I hopped a flight to Buenos Aires and headed back to the ‘Ham to regroup....
Coleridge had the following to say (in a letter to Tom Poole) concerning Sir Isaac Newton (see Holmes,Coleridge: Early Visions): My opinion is this—that deep Thinking is attainable only by a man of deep Feeling, and that all Truth is a species of Revelation. The more I understand of ...
George kneeled in the dirt of the crawl space under his house. Mumbling to himself as he wiped the stickiness from the top of the hammer with his greasy work cloth. His gaze drifted over to a freshly turned mound of damp dirt. “Dammit Karen, why did you have to go poking your big...
But it has struck an odd chord with me when I have read and heard it said so casually and certainly over the past several days that the Heat have given us the greatest feeling we have ever had in local sports. As if that were not debatable. I hear that said and I assume those ...
go with me. Since I needed four miles, I urged them to take their bicycles. My sweet girl in the photo above parked her bike about a half mile before our turn-around point and ran with me for close to a mile. I have a feeling she will be running circles around me by junior high...
and no longer shriek when I leave the room. Although I theoretically know better than to compare them to each other, with twins plus an older child, there are myriad ways to fall into the comparison trap and emerge feeling like they, or more likely I, am falling short. The comparison an...
“It’salwaysbeen about my vanity, my dear man!” The Devil exclaimed with raucous laughter – and a no-kidding slap to his cartoony knee. “As for the world; it will do with it what it will do with it – what should either of us care about that? Though I’d point out to you...
It's mostly downhill from here, in Tucson proper I get on the river bike path which takes me most of the way through the city to where I'm going. The last 5 miles I'm dealing with some kind of right knee strain, not sure how I did that, but it's painful at the end. ...
Second mile just rolled along, still feeling really easy: 8:37. I’ve been working on my running form. This has been a FOREVER project. I know my form is janky. I know I have almost no knee drive. I know my heel doesn’t come up and therefore the pendulum of my leg is longer ...