ummmmm OK .....
How bout them Vols !!!
Sorry bro but it's the season opener. Against Cal no less. Andre is happy to be alive and now that it's football season again so am I LOL.
Touchdown Tennessee !! Yeah Baby !! 5:15 1st qtr !! woohooo !!
Cal's a bunch of pussies. Beating them just shows how stupid the sports media is.
ummm yeah they are from california after all.
I remember a hot chick I worked with liking Andre. Then, years later, I read an interview with him in which he talked about his love for the movie, Shadowlands. No wonder that hot chick liked him.
I love Andre Agassi. He's the fucking man. You know I look up to him for his drive, you're right Nate, Agassi's problem was motivation, the key to his success was not just some natural talent like Michael Jordan, no, he didn't have that in spades like some athletes, but what he always had over them was his drive, he lost it for awhile, then he proved that it's all in the mind, that success comes from your beliefs, how you condition yourself, if you think you'll lose you will, but if you think you can win, you will get there. Faith moves mountains, and Agassi proved that it's true. Not just by getting where he got, but by getting there and failing along the way, then coming back stronger than ever before purely out of mindset.
Jamie... While I agree with you about Andre's drive at the end... He's probably the most physically talented tennis player ever... including Federer.
Even Federer's hands and eyes aren't as quick as Andre's were.
I liked Sampras.
Nate, Andre was never the most physically gifted tennis player. Come on.
Mark Philippoussis is physically gifted, but he has none of the mental abilities that Agassi was driven by.
Jamie... dude... Andre is the greatest returner in the history of the game. That's God-given talent. You can't teach a kid to see. You can't teach a kid quick hands.
He won wimbledon... while he was bored with the game. He didn't really even care. He was out of shape... he barely practiced.
Yet he won.
That wasn't heart dude. That was talent.
Andre wasn't just one of the most gifted tennis players ever. He's one of the most gifted athletes ever.
Dude... if he'd played baseball, he would've batted .400. Easily.
Yeah they say the same about Lleyton Hewitt, but the fact is that his family was a family of athletes, he wasn't one of the best tennis players, he was an athlete who chose that sport and his family made him do well at it.
Danny Ainge has a quarterback for a son at the University of Tennessee I believe. Know about that? But there you go, natural talent combined with the right mindset (Danny Ainge's family is a full Christian family). Mark Philippoussis is naturally gifted physically, Andre don't compare to him physically.
Andre was shit for years. I remember when people wrote him off all the time.
Then he came back.
Oi, Danny Ainge has a nephew for a quarterback, just relaying my mistake there. But still, his family is like that.
By the way, I don't know if anyone should talk about Federer in a passé tone, his history ain't done yet.
Federer is still making tennis history.
I like a Justin Timberlake song, 'Until the end of time'.
Thought I'd ruin my credentials regardless.
Jamie,
You know Andre's dad is an olympic gold medalist boxer right?
Anytime Andre was shit, it was because he wasn't trying.
Not using your gifts don't mean you ain't got them.
Nate: "The last man who will ever win all 4 grand slams."
I disagree. Someone comes in with a dominating serve like Sampras, and it could happen.
Nate: " If you get a chance, I recommend staying up one night to watch."
After reading accounts of the Agassi-Baghdatis match, I regret not watching it. But one never knows when one will witness sports history; I was lucky enough to be tuned into game 1 of the '88 World Series and saw Gibby's pinch hit walk-off homer. Talk about electrifying a crowd.
WB,
The French Clay neuters big servers. There are at least 4 guys out there right now who serve as well or better than Sampras did. None have won the French.
There's a culture now of men who specialize in clay court tennis. its all they do. To win the french, you have to beat them on the only surface they play on. its almost a different sport.
He's gone. Four sets to Becker, who closed with a 133mph ace. Wow.
It was painful to watch... playing like that with a bad back...
OT, but on Friday there was mention of comments by a certain broth-er.
FYI, it's still there. The "Post ATF Report".
Jamie, Danny Ainge is a Mormon, not a Christian, and for what I can tell, his family members are also mostly Mormon...
Nice post Nate. I will miss watching him play.
Whoever is not against us is for us Bisch. It does seem that Mormons are a lot more determined to hold true to their beliefs than most other Christians, so I give them credit for that.
I agree they are determined to hold true to their beliefs. I just don't think their beliefs are the same as ours.
"Dude... if he'd played baseball, he would've batted .400. Easily."
You know nothing about baseball.
The only thing I know about tennis is, hit the ball over the net.
ChiRho
I know that tennis balls spin at several times the revs that pitchers get, and the action on serves is way more drastic. I know the ball is faster, the strike zone is bigger, and the margin for error on the return is infinately less.
Baseball is for pussies.
I had the good fortune of meeting Andre in a deserted concourse in Phoenix (around 1989). This was in his long hair days. He chatted with me for about 10 minutes before his handler showed up late. He was warm and sincere with virtually no pretense that I could detect. We spoke briefly about tennis and then he started asking me questions about playing basketball, and having kids, and enjoying my work and life... In retrospect, he was likely searching for reasons to keep playing tennis, comparing my (and other) experiences with his own. He was a gentlemen with an image.
Oh yeah, and I agree with Nate. Maybe the best ever.
Justifiable Homicide & Justifiable Beating ( Just-US- Getting-Killed & Beaten)
It 's just unbelieveable that white cops can murder and beat black people and don't even care that they just took a life. I looked at the faces of the cop that murder Mr.Diallo onnthe new the day after it looked like one or two of them where smiling. Justifable Homicide is decided immediate anytime a cops murders a black adult or child. From the elderly to little children it doesn't matter even the mentally ill are not spared. The Mayors of these city always backs the officers and NOT the citizens that pay their salary. There is more consideration given to a loose wild bears or any wild animal. That's ashame. There are reports and study done on the shooting of black people by white cops. Yet NOTHING is done to stop the legal murder of American citizen. Or Justifable Homicide ? See Justifable Homicide and Legal murder is usually the conclusion by the public and the law enforcement that investigates.
1. Eleanor Bumpurs was killed by New York City Police officers. On October 29, 1984, police officers arrived at Ms. Bumpurs apartment in New York City. One month behind on her rent, Ms. Bumpurs was evicted from her apartment. Police arrived, but Ms. Bumpurs did not go quietly. Ms. Bumpurs, a 76 year old African American woman, grabbed a knife and threatened the harmed officers. One officer carrying a shotgun, managed to shoot his gun and blast off half of Ms. Bumpurs hand, making it “anatomically impossible for her to hold the knife” according to the Bronx district’s attorney office. Now that Ms. Bumpurs was unarmed, police should have taken her into custody and tried calming her down. Instead, the officer armed with the shotgun fired his gun again, this time finding his intended target and killing Ms. Bumpurs.
Immediately following the case of Eleanor Bumpurs, society, particularly the African American society, was furious. They saw the case as a male white police officer who ruthlessly killed an elderly African American woman, not the case of self defense on the officer’s part. While Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward and New York City Mayor Ed Koch have admitted that Ms. Bumpurs should not have been killed, they stated that the death of Ms. Bumpurs was in fact “completely legal”. Because Ms. Bumpurs would not go quietly and because she threatened the officers, it was within the code of police ethics that the police officers defend themselves any way they could. However defending and killing are two separate cases.Justifiable Homicide?
2. The victim of the beating, Robert Davis, 66, has filed a lawsuit against the police department. At the hearing he identified Evangelist as one of the law enforcement officers who beat him the night he was arrested. But he could give few details of his treatment, saying he was soon rendered unsconscious.
"It happened so fast. I don't recall all the details," Davis said.
Davis was arrested that night on charges including pub
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