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This Sporting Life: Fish and bicycles

By Jeff MacGregor
Page 2

Friday, September 4, 2009

From the tottering Jenga tower of my thoughts, a few notions this week on tennis and on women and on men, on the blonde promise of smooth youth, on Afghanistan and revelation, on what gets dragged up in the Net and the persistent mystery of human cruelty, on time zones and end zones and the West Coast bias of a vampire TV schedule. On how late is too late for me to see a Duck sucker-punch a buckaroo? Much too late, it turns out. Down goes Hout! Down goes Hout! Out goes Blount! (And as a sop to ...

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