Call me Bud C. That’s Bud the Curmudgeon. You can also call me grouchy, grumpy and cantankerous, too. That’s OK because it’s the way I feel when running up against the confusing, careless corruption of tennis language. What I have in mind is the game’s most precious and rarest accomplishment: the Grand Slam. It’s the quintessential quadrilateral, a gem so luminous and … [Read more...] about GRAND SLAM: THE CORRECT TERMINOLOGY
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HALL OF FAME INDUCTS QUINTESSENTIAL QUARTET: SELES, GIMENO, DELL, DR. JOHNSON
NEWPORT, R.I. – The tiny face peers at you from the showcase. It is an historic survivor and seems to know it, looking theworse for wear but proud of being beat up by a little girl with a big stick. Grown to nearly 6-feet, no longer the aggressive – yet ever gracious – adversary, Monica Seles appeared at the International Tennis Hall of Fame to take her rightful place … [Read more...] about HALL OF FAME INDUCTS QUINTESSENTIAL QUARTET: SELES, GIMENO, DELL, DR. JOHNSON
60th ANNIVERSARY FOR “BONES” AND ME
Another Olympics has sped by, stirring warm memories of a golden 10.3 seconds I shared with a man called “Bones” six decades ago. He did the running, I did the rooting from the cheap seats among a throng of 83,000 in London’s Wembley Stadium. The world had waited 12 years for restoration of the Games in 1948, and no one dreamed of this day more than the skinny “Bones,” a … [Read more...] about 60th ANNIVERSARY FOR “BONES” AND ME