35 Burst results for "Grand Slam"
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from Mike Gallagher Week in Review Podcast for 10.27.23
"Welcome to The Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review Podcast. This is Friday, October 27, 2023. I'm Eric Hansen. This has been a busy week, to be sure. Let's start with probably the biggest political development of the week. After weeks of dissension, Republicans finally came together to elect a Speaker of the House. It's Mike Johnson of Louisiana. Pretty extraordinary when it comes to his conservative bona fides. Don't believe me? I hope you had a chance to see or hear his speech yesterday when he was welcomed as the Speaker of the House. If not, let me give you this amazing example of the Democrats' worst night. And they helped create this now. Remember, they could have saved Kevin McCarthy. And the Democrats said, no, we've got no reason to save Kevin McCarthy. Well, now they've got a conservative extraordinaire. This guy, Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. America is the only nation in the world that is founded upon a creed. He said it's listed with almost theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence. What is our creed? We hold these truths to be self -evident. That all men are created equal, not born equal, created equal. And they are endowed by the same inalienable rights, with the same inalienable rights. Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. That is the creed that has animated our nation since its founding, that has made us the great nation that we are. And we're in a time of extraordinary crisis right now. And the world needs us to be strong. They need us to remember our creed and our admonition. Termal and violence have rocked the Middle East and Eastern Europe. We all know it. Intentions continue to build in the Indo -Pacific. The country demands strong leadership of this body, and we must not waver. Our nation's greatest ally in the Middle East is under attack. The first bill that I'm going to bring to this floor in just a little while will be in support of our dear friend Israel. And we're overdue in getting that done. How great is that guy so far? Now again, now again, bottom line here is there was turmoil. The Republicans were unified. A speech is one thing. But everything that I'm learning about Mike Johnson, and we're all getting a quick primer on Mike Johnson, is it primer or primer? I think it's a primer. The cliff notes, the cheat sheet, the white sheet. Everything we're learning about this guy is a grand slam home run. And the Democrats are squealing. They can't believe it. They're flipping out. Well, all they had to do was support Kevin McCarthy, and they'd have had Kevin McCarthy. It's delicious. Meanwhile, in Lewiston, Maine, news of another terrible mass shooting. Mike talked to our radio colleague and Maine morning man Ray Richardson to get a local view of this awful event. You know Maine better than anybody I know, and I love the state of Maine. And I'm just so heartbroken for what your community is going through. And you're right. I've known that the community is known to leave their doors open. Kids play at dusk. It's not like other parts of the country. But tell us about firearms and the community. Tell us about what people do with weapons. Because there seems to be an emerging narrative. After the Hamas attack in Israel and now this awful mass shooting in Maine, I'm hearing more and more people say, you know what, we better be armed. We've got to be able to protect ourselves, to defend our family. What's the mindset regarding the Second Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms and people with firearms in the great state of Maine, Ray Richardson? Mike, this is a state that is a huge Second Amendment state. On a per capita basis, now we're small. We're about 1 .3 million people statewide. But on a per capita basis, we're always one, two or three in the nation in ownership of firearms. This is a state that respects firearms. People here hunt. That's one of our big sports here. People love to just go out and do sports shooting.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
House Republicans Elect Mike Johnson As New Speaker
"There's also huge, huge political news of gigantic victory for Republicans with the unanimous vote on the Republican side for Mike Johnson from Shreveport, Louisiana. He's a little -known congressman from Louisiana. He is, well, the Democrats' worst nightmare. Pretty extraordinary when it comes to his conservative bona fides. Don't believe me? I hope he had a chance to see or hear his speech yesterday when he was welcomed as the Speaker of the House. If not, let me give you this amazing example of the Democrats' worst nightmare. And they helped create this now. Remember, they could have saved Kevin McCarthy. And the Democrats said, oh, we've got no reason to save Kevin McCarthy. Well, now they've got a conservative extraordinaire. This guy, Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. America is the only nation in the world that is founded upon a creed. And he said it's listed with almost theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence. What is our creed? We hold these truths to be self -evident, that all men are created equal, not born equal, created equal. And they are endowed by the same inalienable rights, with the same inalienable rights, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. That is the creed that has animated our nation since its founding that has made us the great nation that we are. And we're in a time of extraordinary crisis right now. And the world needs us to be strong. They need us to remember our creed and our admonition. Termal and violence have rocked the Middle East and Eastern Europe. We all know it. Intentions continue to build in the Indo -Pacific. The country demands strong leadership of this body. And we must not waver. Our nation's greatest ally in the Middle East is under attack. The first bill that I'm going to bring to this floor in just a little while will be in support of our dear friend Israel. And we're overdue in getting that done. How great is that guy so far? Now again, now again, bottom line here is there was turmoil. The Republicans were unified. A speech is one thing. But everything that I'm learning about Mike Johnson, and we're all getting a quick primer on Mike Johnson. Is it primer or primer? I think it's a primer. The cliff notes, the cheat sheet, the white sheet. Everything we're learning about this guy is a grand slam home run.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"grand slam" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Time now for the Bloomberg sports update brought to you by Tri -State Audi. Good morning John Stashauer. Good morning Nathan. ...or series wildcard sweeps that includes the Texas Rangers who had a stretch in August and September where they They lost 16 out of 20 games but they're moving on. They won 7 -1 at Tampa Bay. It's the Rangers' first series win since 2011. It's Minnesota's first since 2002. A two -nothing shutout of Toronto for the second night row. in a A come -from -behind win for Arizona 5 -2 at Milwaukee and in Philadelphia the Phillies put the Marlins away sixth inning. Lefty Nardi on the mound his pitch swinging a high flyout toward right field. Sanchez watches as it sails over the wall for a grand slam. Bryson into Scott the seats in right field and here in the bottom of the sixth as fireworks in ignite the night sky. On ESPN the Phillies won 7 -1. The division series all begin Saturday. The Rangers will be in Baltimore. The Twins in Houston's Carlos Correa will face his former team. The Diamondbacks visit the Dodgers and it's the Phillies in Atlanta so both of the NLDS have division opponents meeting. Much like Aaron Boone Bob Melvin managed a high payroll team and barely finished over 500. The Padres announce Melvin still will return. Yankees have not yet made that official with Boone but they are expected to. Giants fans upset with their team's poor start. This won't help. Comments by tackle Evan Neal When asked about getting booed, Neal told NewJersey .com fans shouldn't comment on the players performance. He said, what do they do? They flip hot dogs and hamburgers. Neal last night apologized. He said he let his frustration and desire to win get the best of him and that he regretted making light of people's jobs. John Stashauer Bloomberg Sports Thank you John. Bloomberg Sports brought to you by Audi. Don't let someone else drive off in the Audi model you've always wanted. Visit your local tri -state Audi dealer to get behind the wheel of yours today or visit AudiOffers dot com for more information. Up next we'll get more on the speakership fight from the man who kicked it off, Florida Republican Matt Gaetz, what he wants to see from the next speaker of the house. Futures are pointing a to lower open this morning with S &P Dow and Nasdaq futures all down three tenths of one percent. The ten year treasury is down three thirty seconds, the yield pretty close to one. From coast to coast, from New York to San Francisco, Boston to Washington D .C. nationwide on Sirius XM, the Bloomberg Business
The Tennis.com Podcast
A highlight from Eric Diaz's Journey From the University of Georgia to Coaching Rising American Alex Michelsen
"Welcome to the official tennis .com podcast featuring professional coach and community leader Kamau Murray. Welcome to the tennis .com podcast. We are here with Eric Diaz. You remember the name? Eric is son of Manny Diaz, coach of Alex Mickelson, Werner Tan, and right now has his own thing called tier one performance out in the Irvine area. Welcome to the show, Eric. How's it going? Thanks for having me. Thanks for having me. It's great to be on. Great to be on. So I interviewed your dad probably about 2 months ago. That was, you know, we were poking fun about him redshirting Ethan Quinn, you know, not choosing not to play Ethan Quinn later. You know he wins NCAA the next year. It was kind of like, what were you thinking, right? Yeah, one of those tough ones. Oh yeah, it was kind of like, did you think he wasn't ready? Was he, did he think he wasn't ready? Like, you know, you probably could have won NCAA twice. That kind of thing but you obviously came from good tennis pedigree. So, I guess the first obvious question was what was it like growing up with your dad being Manny? You know, because I, it's hard not to take work home, right? Let's just put it that way. You're a tennis coach and a child of a tennis dad. Yeah. You know, I don't know. I think anybody that's been in tennis for a long time knows it's kind of a lifestyle a little bit. You know, there's definitely being the tennis coach and kind of, you know, working toward things but it's also, I don't know, the sport takes so much of you that sometimes, you know, it just feels like, you know, it's second nature. It's kind of a part of it. So, I mean, growing up in Athens, growing up around Dan McGill Complex was always a treat. That was back when NCAA's were kind of always hosted in Athens. So, I got to watch, you know, all the college greats. I grew up watching the Bryan brothers get, you know, sadly then they were kind of pegging some of our guys in doubles matches but, you know, it was really cool being able to sit court side, watch those guys and then, you know, be able to watch them on TV a little bit later. Really cool. Really cool experience growing up. Now, from a junior career, did your dad coach you your whole career or did he hire private coaches to sort of teach you technique? Because I know, you know, coaching at a program like UGA, it is very demanding and sometimes the children of the tennis coach lose out to the actual players and the people who are paying. So, did he coach you? How was that? You know, he coached me. I think he tried to coach me but at the same time, he also didn't want to put too much pressure on me to like, you know, really play tennis and go in. So, he kind of let it be my own thing. I started, I actually went to Athens Country Club, great little spot on the outside of Athens. Alan Miller was the main coach there. So, he helped me out a lot. He actually, he was on my dad's first, you know, assistant coaching team where they won a national title. I think he paired with Ola who now obviously has been with USGA for a while. I think they played doubles and I think they won a doubles title as well. So, I think Alan was a part of the first team championship and then he was also, you know, he won a doubles title there too. I think he might have won two. So, I spent a lot of time around him which was also, it was really cool. You know, it was a guy who was a part of the Georgia tennis family. Athens is really tight -knit like that and so it's special to be a part of that family both, I guess, through blood and through, you know, the alumni. It's cool. Now, let me ask you, did you ever consider going anywhere else, right? I mean, successful junior career, one of the top players in the nation, tons of options. You know, it could be like, you know, there's always sort of the, oh, his dad's going to give him a scholarship, right? You saw with Ben Shelton, you know, Brian Shelton. Obviously, he's going to look out for his kid. Did you ever aspire to like go to another top program or UCLA or Texas or Florida? I think growing up, you know, because I got to see all those teams play. You know, I remember in 1999, I looked up this guy who, he played number one for UCLA. I don't know, this guy showed up. I'm a little kid and he had half of his head was blue and the other half was gold and, you know, UCLA was firing it up. They were really good at the time. I remember that was my dad's first national title in 99. And, you know, ever since then, I really, you know, I looked up to the guys. Every now and then, I got to sneak on to a little travel trip and, you know, I got to see what it was like. But, I mean, for me, it was always Georgia. I thought Athens was a special place, you know, getting to see the crowds that they get there and being able to kind of just see the atmosphere of everybody caring about each other. You know, it was cool looking at other teams. You know, the Brian brothers had the cool Reebok shoes, you know, the UCLA guy with the different hair. But at the end of the day, it was always the dogs. It was always Georgia. So, I was really lucky when I got to be a part of that team and I got to kind of wear the G that, you know, through my junior years, I was always wearing it, you know, but I guess it was a little bit different when you're actually, you know, on the team and representing. I think it's a different feeling. Yeah. So, if you didn't go into tennis, what else would you be doing? Like, you know, I didn't, you know, I'm obviously coaching now, but I didn't go right into coaching. I went to work into pharmaceuticals like marketing, sales, you know, finance. It's always, I always find it interesting to say if I wasn't coaching, I got my degree, I would be doing this. Yeah. You know, if I was a little bit more prone, I think to just loving schoolwork and loving studying, you know, everybody's always told me that I would make a pretty good lawyer just because I'm a bit of a contrarian. I like to argue. I like to challenge everybody that's kind of around me. So, I'm always looking for a good argument. So, I'll go with that. Everybody's always told me, you know, maybe you should have been a lawyer. You argue a Hey, lot. well, I'm sure, I'm sure your tennis parents, right? The parents of the academy probably don't like that one, right? They like to be in control. They have the last say and be contrarian. A lot of the time they do. A lot of the time they do. Yeah. So, you're sort of like stepping out, right? Out of the shadow and you're now on the west coast out there in the with Irvine area tier one performance and quite honestly, making your own name. I know you've had opportunity to coach Alex Mickelson as well as, you know, Lerner, Tan who are both like doing real well, both like main draw this year at US Open. Tell me about the process of moving way west. Yeah. And starting your own thing. Well, you know, it kind of started with, you know, I took that leap and I moved away from home for, you know, the first time because obviously being born and raised and going to school at UGA. I took my first chance and I went to Boise State and I worked under Greg Patton for a year who I'd heard great things about and, you know, all were true. He's a great guy. I thought it was a fantastic experience. So, I did that for a year and then over the summer, the UGA swim coach's son that I kind of grew up with, he was in Newport and so I kind of came to visit and then, you know, all of a sudden the opportunity to be coaching out here, you know, came about and, you know, I did my due diligence a little bit. You know, I looked at the old tennis recruiting pages and, you know, I'm looking at all the talent over the last like 20 years and, you know, statistically, you look at the list and you're like, okay, you know, if I'm in this area and I give myself, you know, the right opportunities and I, you know, learn how to coach properly, you know, I feel like I've had some pretty good experience from some good mentors. You know, then I kind of thought, you know, okay, maybe I can kind of control my own destiny out here a little bit and, you know, over time, it's taken a lot but, you know, over time, I feel like I did get myself some pretty decent opportunities. So, when you first laid eyes on Mickelson, how old was he? He was 12. He was coming out to some point place. It was the first place I kind of rented courts. It was this old rundown beat up club but beautiful. There were some trees there. Nobody wanted it. The courts were kind of run down and everyone's like, oh no, nothing there and I was like, I'll take it. So, you know, it gave me space. It gave me courts. It gave me the ability to kind of try and market. I made things cheap so I could get a lot of kids out there and try and get a competitive environment going and luckily, you know, had a good bit of talent out there where, you know, the kids kind of attracted the kids and I was this young coach, 23, 24 and, you know, over time, you know, people started to kind of gain trust and realize, you know, this guy isn't that bad. So, you know, over time, it kind of, you know, worked in my favor and, you know, everything kind of worked out. I eventually switched clubs to a nicer one and, you know, you move up. You earn your stripes. Now, when you saw him, did you initially see, you know, like super talent because he won our ADK this summer and, you know, it was full of Steve Johnson, Su -Woo Kwong. It was Ethan Quinn. It was other names, right? Kanee Shakuri. And Alex, okay, you know, he got the USTA wildcard. He's a young kid. You know what I mean? Like, sort of under the radar and then he wins the whole tournament in finals Newport on the grass like a week later. So, did you see it right away? Was he like a typical kind of 12 -year -old throwing his racket, having tantrums? What was he like at 12? Alex has always turned on tantrums. But, you know, when he was 12, he was good. But, you know, I'll be honest, there were a handful of kids out there that, you know, Kyle Kang, who's had a lot of success. I saw him. Sebastian Goresney, who Alex won doubles with. There were a handful of others and, I mean, Alex, they were, he was good. If I thought that he would be this good, you know, at this point, I think I'd I don't think I saw that. But, you know, you definitely see that this kid's capable of playing at a pretty good level while he's young. And then, you know, as the years kind of go and then as you sort of see him and his personality kind of develop, you kind of recognize, you know, this, you know, this isn't too normal of a 16, 17, 18 -year -old kid. And then, you know, sure enough, eventually the results followed, which was pretty fun to watch. Yeah, I mean, I felt it was interesting because he was here with like his friend. Yeah. You know, not even like a coach, trainer, physio, nothing. Like him and his homeboy. Yeah. He didn't look like he played tennis. You know what I mean? So, yeah, it was like, it was interesting to show up without, you know, completing against guys who are here with like coaching that they're paying six -figure salaries and who are scouting, right? And for him to kind of move through the draw, honestly, I mean, you know, maybe he split sets once. Yeah. It was actually really interesting. He's an extremely competitive kid. And so, you know, throughout the last few years kind of as we've traveled to some events and as he's gone to some like by himself, you know, the whole understanding is, okay, how well do you really understand, you know, your day -to -day process? How well are you able to, you know, nowadays, you know, with challengers, everything you can stream, you can watch. So, you know, both myself and, you know, Jay, the other coach that's here and helping him out, you know, we watch, we communicate. But, you know, at the end of the day, you know, it was one of those big decisions, okay, are you going to go to college or are you going to go pro? And he's kind of weighing those two things. And it's, you know, if you really think you want to be a pro, show me. And so it's one of those things, luckily, when he's young, you know, you have the, you know, it's kind of freedom. If he loses some matches, okay, you're young. If, you know, you win some matches, okay, great. You're young. So it's one of those things where, you know, we really kind of wanted to see, you know, what he's able to do sort of on his own. How well can he manage emotionally? How well can he, you know, create some game plans and stick to his day -to -day routines? And he, I would say he passed. And did he officially turn pro? He officially turned pro, yeah. Yeah. So I know UGA was going to be where he was going. I know he was undecided this summer, but UGA was going to, was there a little bit of an inside man kind of happening here, right? You know, I mean, you know, I think that, you know, I'll definitely say, I think he had some exposure to hearing about, you know, some Georgia greatness. I think that for sure. But, you know, I'll say it was his decision. Ultimately, I tried to not put too much pressure or expectation on where he was going to go. You know, I think Georgia has a lot to offer. So I think, you gone that route, I think it would be, you know, I don't think we can really fail if, you know, you're going and you're trying to be a tennis player and that's a place you choose. I think it's a pretty good place. Now tell us about Lerner Tan. I'll admit as a player that I hadn't had the opportunity to watch too much. I had not watched him in the challenges at all. But was he also sort of in the program at a young age or did he just sort of come later on? My partner actually, you know, kind of helped him when he was young because Levitt Jay used to be incorporated at Carson, which was kind of where Lerner kind of had his, you know, beginnings. He was a little bit more, I guess I'll say, you know, his talent was Federation spotted, I guess you could say as to where Alex was kind of, you know, the guy on the outside a little figuring his own way. Lerner was kind of the guy that everybody kind of thought was, you know, the guy. Right. And so, you know, it's been fun kind of watching him, you know, see his transition, you know, from juniors to now, you know, kind of becoming, you know, the top of juniors, you know, winning Kalamazoo the last two years and his transition. It's been fun to see. So, you know, I've seen a lot of him out of the last, you know, two and a half to three years. So it's been, it's definitely been a different transition. I feel like, you know, it's a little bit fire and ice there. You know, Alex is the fiery one screaming a good bit and Lerner is the silent killer. So it's, they're definitely different, which I think, you know, is pretty refreshing and it's kind of cool to see them both have success in their own accord. So tell us about Tier 1 then. So how many courts, obviously you grew up, I mean, like, you know, I started in the park years ago, right? In Chicago Park, right? And now I got 27 courts. But tell us about Tier 1 performance now. Where are you? How many courts do you now have? How many kids are you serving? Yeah, we're in Newport Beach right now, which is great. Weather's nice. We have, right now, we're running our program out of only five ports. It's not that big. You know, we take a lot of pride in just kind of being individually, you know, development based. I feel like if you're in our program, you're going to have, you know, a good bit of time from the coaches. You're probably going to have a chance to hit with some of the top guys. We try to be really selective with who we kind of have. Just because in Southern California, it's really difficult to, you know, get your hands on a ton of courts. There's so many people in tennis. There's only a few clubs now. You know, pickleball, even at our club right now, you know, pickleball is booming. You know, so many people are playing. It's keeping clubs alive, which, you know, I think is nice. But at the same time, I would love to see, you know, a lot of tennis courts and tennis opportunity. But, you know, it is what it is. Yeah, man, pickleball is definitely taking over. You see clubs getting rid of one court, two courts, and they think that it's not that big of an impact. But I mean, two courts really makes a difference in terms of being able to spread kids out, get them more time, get more balls and more balls at the time. But it's, you know, I think in tennis, if we want to fight them off, we've got to market better and we've got to grow, right? They're in this growth sort of stage and we're sort of stagnant, you know, so it's not like we're not leaving the club with a lot of choices other than to diversify, you know what I mean? Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. So, let me ask you that. So, you've obviously had two kids that are going on. What do you tell that next parent, whose kid's 14, right, may get to see learner Alex come to the academy and number one, they want to homeschool, right, or ask you whether or not they should homeschool or B, you know, whether or not they should choose to go to college or, you know, turn pro. How are you advising parents? Because I get the question all the time. Should we homeschool, right? Should we do whatever? And I always, you know, the answer is always, it depends. Yeah. But what would be your answer in terms of homeschooling to train? Well, look, I definitely think that if your primary goal is to be a tennis player and I think, you know, if you're an athlete and that's kind of what you want to do, I think there's a lot of benefit in homeschooling just because, you know, it enables you to travel. You know, if I get to the ITF level, you know, I need to be able to travel. Those tournaments start on Monday and they go through Friday. So, you know, if I'm in a regular school, if I'm a high school kid, you know, that's a pretty difficult life for me to be able to justify or to, you know, be able to get my excused absences and stuff like that. You know, we're definitely big. You know, if you show me a 14 and under kid and I feel like I had pretty good experience in this just because I saw a lot of kids from the age of 12 to 14, you know, I got to see an entire kind of generation out of SoCal and a lot of them were pretty good. You know, the one thing I think, you know, when you're 12, 13, 14 years old, I think the primary thing kind of for level, obviously it matters how you're doing it, but I think the primary thing is the repetition. You know, I saw a ton of kids where they had a bunch of practices and I knew that that kid probably, you know, had 30%, 40 % more time than some of the other kids. And, you know, sure enough, that kid is more competent at keeping the ball in play. You know, they're able, you know, they've just seen and touched more balls. So, you know, they're going to make more balls. I think it's a balance. I think it really depends on the parents. I think it really depends on the kid. And I think it depends on the environment that they'll be in if they are going to be homeschooled. You know, I will say that, you know, we've had a handful of kids kind of switch from high school to homeschooled and they're in our program. But I feel like there's still strong social aspects in our program. You know, all the boys are tight. They compete a lot. They, you know, I feel like they get their social, you know, they go to lunch. And just kind of our standards are really high. I think this past year we had five kids that graduated that all went to IVs. So, you know, it's totally possible whether you're homeschooled or whether you're in school, I think, to, you know, kind of pursue academic excellence. I think, you know, just because you're doing one thing and not the other, I don't think that that necessarily, you know, takes that away from you. I think tennis can open a ton of doors. And I think I kind of, you know, we've kind of seen that in the last few years. I've seen a lot more tennis kids choosing IV ever since 2020, I feel. I feel like the IVs have been pretty hot, especially for some blue chip players, which I think, you know, if you look prior to 2020, I think the percentages took a pretty drastic jump, which is interesting to see. Yeah, you know, it's funny, you know, in some markets you see people playing for the scholarship and in some other markets you see them playing for entrance, right, into the Princeton, the Harvards. And one of the myths, like, I think if you think about basketball or football, right, the better basketball football players are obviously choosing the SEC, right, Pac -12, whatever that is. But in tennis, you know, I think that, you know, your academics and your tennis have to be, like, at the top scale to go, just because you're not like a bad tennis player if you go to Harvard, you know what I mean? Like, the kid that goes to Harvard or makes the team probably could have gone to PCU, right, or Florida or whatever, you know what I mean? And so it is interesting to see the number of people who say, yes, I've spent 30 grand on tennis for the past eight years and I'm still willing to pay for college, right, because I got into Princeton, Harvard, Yale, etc. But I think it's a big myth where, you know, the United States is so basketball focused, we see Harvard basketball as, like, okay, that's everyone that didn't get chosen by the Illinois, the Wisconsin, the Michigan. And it's not the same, you know what I mean? Yeah, it's different for sure. So when you think about, like, the Ivies, right, you see a lot of kids go to East Coast and you think about, you know, COVID obviously changed something with the home school, you know, sort of situation. People who never considered that it was possible were like, okay, well, we've been living at home for a year and a half and doing online studies, it's not that bad, you know, they're more focused with their time. Did you see more people from families who you thought would not have done it try it post COVID? Yeah, definitely. I think the really popular thing that a lot of people are doing now is kind of a hybrid schedule, which I actually really like a lot. At least in California, I don't know if the schooling system is different everywhere else. I know it was different where I was from. But a lot of these kids, you know, they'll go to school from 8 to 1130 or 8 to 12. And, you know, they have their three hours where, you know, I don't know how they stagger their classes and stuff like that. But I know that pretty much every kid at every school in SoCal is at least able to do this if they so choose. And so they're able to get released around 12 or something. And, you know, they're able to be at afternoon practice and get a full block in. You know, for me, that still enables you to get the hours you need on court and to be able to maintain some of that social. And, you know, if you become, you know, really, really good, I guess, okay, by junior year, maybe you could consider, okay, maybe I should take this a little bit more seriously, maybe I should go full time homeschool. Or, you know, a lot of these kids are in a place where it's, you know, I'm comfortable with my tennis, I like where it's at, I feel like it'll give me opportunity in college. My grades are great. And, you know, maybe that person's a little more academically inclined. And, you know, they want to have a career and they feel like tennis is that great stepping stone. Which I think is a really cool thing about our sport is it just opens a tremendous amount of doors. I feel like if you figure out how to develop and be a good tennis player and how to compete well in tennis, you can you can apply that to almost everything in life. Yeah. So you talk about opening doors, right? When Alex or Lerner were sort of deciding whether to walk through door number one, which is college, or door number two, which is which is obviously turning pro. Right. How did you advise them? You know what I mean? If I say, hey, you know what? Take a couple wildcards. If you went around or two, maybe you go to college. If you win a tournament, maybe you stay out there. If an agency locks you into a deal, right? Then, you know, they normally know what good looks like and they normally have like the ear of the Nike, the Adidas, right? Then you turn pro. What was your advice in terms of if and when, right? Yeah. For those who ask. Well, they were both in different places. I'm gonna start with Lerner cuz he's younger. He actually, you know, did a semester in college. You know, Lerner finished high school, I think, when he was sixteen, sixteen and a half. And so, obviously, your eligibility clock starts, you know, six months after you finish your high school. So, for him, it was, you know, he was so young, he didn't really have much pro experience at that time. You know, he did great things in juniors. You know, he won Kalamazoo. He got his wild card into the men's that year and then, you know, he played a little bit of pro kind of and then, you know, that that January, he went in and and did a semester at USC which I think was a good experience for him socially. He had some eligibility problems which, you know, only let him play about five, six matches toward the end of the year which was kind of disappointing and then, you know, he won Kalamazoo again and so, you know, that was the second trip there and then, you know, by then, he had a little bit more exposure with, you know, agencies and brands and kind of, you know, the stuff that you'd like to see that'll actually give you the financial security to kind of, you know, chase your dream and pass up, you know, the the education, I guess, for the time being. So, you know, I felt like that was really the security was a big was a big thing for him. You know, prior to winning Kalamazoo for the second time, you know, he still had Junior Grand Slams to play. He wasn't playing men's events. So, for him being that age, you know, it was, well, you know, I'm I'm not in a massive rush so why not get a semester in and I think he had a great time. He really liked it. I mean, he he speaks pretty positively about the dual matches. He actually follows college tennis now a little bit more. You know, he will talk about some dual matches which I think is pretty cool and you know, I think it gave him some confidence getting to play for university, getting to represent, you know, seeing that university promotes you. I think there's a lot of benefits there and now, you know, he's got an alumni base. You know, people talk about all, you know, he's a USC Trojan and stuff like that. You know, you see it at all different tournaments. You know, guys are wearing a USC hat and, you know, hey, learner, da da da and you know, I think that that's pretty cool to be a part of, you know, a big family of people who are proud that, you know, they can say they played in the same place and then Alex. Alex was, you know, he was a little old for his grade and he was one that he committed and, you know, the whole time him and learner kind of, you know, talking and, you know, about going pro and da da da da. You know, obviously, it was their dream. You know, I just kept telling Alex, you know, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it until, you know, it's a real problem and so, you know, he gets to 400 in the world and, you know, it's what you do. You get to 400. You know, it's good but at the end of the day, you know, you're not, your life's not changing because you're 400 in the world. You know, so he's 400 in the world and he's, you know, saying stuff to me and I'm like, I could not care less you're going to college and then it was, you know, this was probably in January, February, you know, he starts to kind of do a little bit better and I think at that point, I recognized that he was better than a lot of the guys kind of at the challenger level. You know, just from my perspective, I was seeing kind of what it was, what it was to be 300, what it was to be 200 and I think at that point, like February, March, I fully knew that he was good enough to be there and to be winning those matches but at the same time, you know, having financial security, having set, you know, all of those factors that kind of go into whether I'm going to pass up my education and go pro. You know, it's a big decision and so I remember we were putting it off. I just said, you know, nothing till US Open. I was like, we're not, we're not talking about college till US Open. I said, you know, when we get to US Open, you finish US Open, you have that exposure, you know, we see what happens in those two weeks and then, you know, then we'll kind of make a decision but until then, like, don't even think about it. Don't talk about it. Don't care. You're going to school and I think that mentality really helped him kind of just play free. He was, you know, I'm not playing to go pro. I'm trying to do my job in school, finish my high school. I'm going to tournaments, playing great, just trying to compete and, you know, lucky for him, you know, well, I guess it's not lucky at all. That kid worked his absolute tail off but, you know, he had that success in Chicago at your club and then, you know, he made that little Newport run and I think by then, that was his third or fourth former top 10 win and, you know, he won his challenger. He final the challenger. He'd semied another one. He had kind of shown and, you know, some people have gotten attention and they started believing in him and so then, you know, that's when that big decision kind of came but I feel like for him, he really established himself, improved himself amongst pros which I think is an interesting thing because a lot of the time when you see these juniors kind of go pro sub 18, a lot of the time, it's because they had tremendous junior success which then made them, you know, they had grand slam success and stuff like that but Alex didn't have any of that. You know, Alex was kind of the late bloomer that, you know, in the last year when he was already 18 and aged out of ITF, the kid really just took it to a new level and, you know, I think he really showed that he's kind of ready for what the tour has to offer.
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A highlight from Dissecting Djokovics Reign, Cocos Title & the 2023 US Open With Craig OShannessy
"Welcome to the official tennis .com podcast featuring professional coach and community leader Kamau Murray. Welcome to the tennis .com podcast. I am your host Kamau Murray and we are here with one of our usual suspects. We always have to do our Masters 1000 Grand Slam wrap up with Mr. Data, Mr. Analytics, Mr. Guy in the bunker with his pen and pad, Craig O 'Shaughnessy. Craig, welcome to the show. Pleasure to be here. Pleasure to be here. I just got back from the US Open. I was there for two weeks. It felt like eight. It's the most draining slam of all. It was a good tournament, some great matches. It's tough, I think way tougher to be there for the duration than any other tournament that there is. 100%. You survive. And the matches, the tournament goes so late and the process to get to and from the site makes it just a haul, right? And it makes the day just long. At an hour and a half to the front and the back of your day, in addition to sitting there watching matches and this thing. Before we get to Coco Sabalenka, because that'll take up the whole show, right? You and I normally, we dibble and dabble on the girls and then we dive into the men's. I want to do the reverse. I want to dibble and dabble in the men's because I don't think anyone's surprised about what happened because if we start talking about Coco and Sabalenka now, it'll just be the whole hour. So when you look at a whole two weeks, right, and I was there for the first part of it, seeing the energy, talking to the players, touching, feeling them, seeing how them and themselves A, were enjoying the atmosphere, sometimes a little too much, B, managing the atmosphere or C, trying to just control their bubble within the atmosphere. And I think that process probably, those three sort of situations probably cost Francis a further run, right, kind of getting caught in the matrix, right, absorbing a lot of atmosphere. And then Ben, with the experience of his family, his dad, controlling the atmosphere, probably had a lot to do with his long run. But I think the match that I think had the biggest impact on the tournament was definitely Novak versus Jerry. Did you see the match? What did you think when Novak left the court, down sucess to love, goes to the bathroom and looks himself in the mirror, what happened? Yeah, when he left the court, you know, it was, he's down two sets to love, Jerry's controlling the back of the court with his backhand, his backhand was the best shot on the court in the first two sets. But to be honest, even then Novak goes in, he's still the favorite, still the favorite down two sets to love. He's done it before, you know, it's one of those things where can your opponent play three blinding good sets out of five? Maybe not, probably not, when Novak goes in, you know, you just kind of reset, look in the mirror. He did exactly the same thing against Tsitsipas at Roland Garros, came out and just mowed over him in the last three sets, mowed over Jerry in the last three sets. It was a carbon copy, it's like Novak looks in the mirror and goes, okay, we've got that out of the way. Whether it's a combination of Novak being a little tight, playing, you know, a fellow countryman, it's a combination of early rounds being a bit tight. It's a combination of the opponent just playing spectacular tennis, but you can see right from the start of that match, Novak wasn't, his A game did not turn up right at the beginning. He was pushing, he was prodding, he was spinning, you know, just watching him play a thousand matches, you look at him and say, well, he's not there yet. And even after two sets, he's not there. But you know, sometimes for players, when you get down, it can relax you. It's like, well, I can't fall any further down this hall, I'm two sets to love down. May as well relax, may as well chill out, may as well believe in myself, may as well hit the ball, and Novak's the master of that. So I'm not so, I'm not surprised by the final result. And I think overall, it really helped Novak to play such a quality match and have to overcome some adversity early on. So I agree with you, very pivotal match for the men's draw. Well, let me ask you this, because from a coach's standpoint, when I see, when I see that type of performance, my mind goes to, it wasn't ready to play, right? When I look at like Francis and Ben Shelton, it looked like Francis wasn't ready to play. When I'm sitting in a coach's box and my player goes down 3 -0 or 4 -1, and they're like, deer in the headlines, don't know what to do, it was like, what was not clear prior to the match? You've spent a lot of time with Novak, Novak's got one of the best teams out there, he's the most methodical and committed to his regimen. How does something like that happen to a player who's number one, Jerry is Serbian, right? So you knew who you were playing, right? How did you come out not ready to play? I mean, is there a chance that at this big of an event, at this point in the event that he just wasn't ready or wasn't clear on what to do or from being close and inside, what do you think? Yeah, I think if you look back to Novak's seven matches, I think he will have a slightly different explanation for how he started in all sevens. You get all your ducks in a row, you watch the video, you talk to the team, you get the game plan, but at the start, it was like Novak, in that match, he may walk out there and sometimes he feels the energy of the crowd and it excites him. Sometimes you feel the energy of the crowd and you may go away a little bit and then come back. But I thought that he was attempting to work his way into this match, to start off even to let his resume do the talking early, let the other guy go away, let the other guy spray balls and it didn't happen. It just didn't happen. So all of a sudden, the opponent's not missing a thing, the opponent's playing at a much higher level than Novak was and you're just not ready for that. He's not ready for that. You're going to play a match like that. In the course of a season where these guys are playing about 80 matches, you're going to have these subtleties with how the opponent's playing, how you're playing, are you really ready, are you working yourself into the match, are you coming out guns blazing? And it was just a bad combination of layers for Novak where Jerry threw the first punches, Novak's tasting blood, and it took him a couple of sets to recover, but there was never any doubt in my mind that he would still win that match. And I think that's the oddest thing. I think the odds makers, after being two sets, Novak was still the favorite and I was like, wow. That's probably the first time that I've seen that, I'm not a better, but the odds makers were still favoring Novak. So let me ask you this. Another pivotal match in the tournament, I think, was TFO Ben Shelton. Yeah, I was at that match. I think we all knew Ben Shelton could play. I thought it was very impressive, him beating Tommy Paul, right? One of the things, and I don't know the reason for this, is when he beat Tommy Paul, the crowd, obviously they had to choose, both Americans, Ben and Tommy, but when Ben beat Tommy, I was a little disappointed that the crowd was kind of quiet, right? But we don't have to hop on that, but I do want to point it out that the crowd was eerily quiet after the win of that. But with him and Francis, one of the things that concerned me about Francis was in that New York environment, with all the celebrities, with all the kind of like, and I mean, first of all, we got to keep it going. More non -tennis people, more non -tennis athletes, musicians, entertainers, artists showed up to the US Open this year than I can ever remember. And we need to do that for the sport to grow. But you still got a tournament to play, right? And this generation who loves that, loves the attention, will have to learn to balance how much is too much, how much gets me off kilter, and how much gets me off track. And I thought that the day before the Ben match, you saw Francis with Bieber. I thought that that was a little too much and perhaps maybe took for granted that Ben would shit his pants, and he didn't, right? You know what I mean? Because when you get to that point in the tournament, when you are the veteran, you kind of expect the young guy to give you a couple, like, ah, if I just play solid, he'll know who he is, and the shock factor will cause him to make a few unforced errors or some bad decisions, and it didn't happen. And to me, that goes in the book of, Francis didn't look ready to play, and I think he'll learn from this experience on managing the energy, managing his energy, for that late in the tournament. But I mean, Ben brought it. What was your take on Ben now when you look at the stats, when you look at the 149 mile an hour serve, what is your take on him now having seen him play six matches? Well, the Tommy Paul match was really good. I liked how he managed the ability to say, okay, this is a ball to pull the trigger on. I spoke with his dad at the start of the tournament, and I mentioned possibly our discussion that we've had in other ones is that I think Ben's maturity is going to come from figuring out when there's one more ball that needs to be hit. There's just one more ball. And I think maybe I talked to you about it last time, but it goes back to me to the 2000 Australian Open final. Agassi beats Kefalnikov in four sets. Agassi's one in the world, Kefalnikov's two. Agassi goes to the post -match interview. Bruce McAvaney is interviewing there, and they're watching some film, and Agassi's just going, you know, Kefalnikov moves well, he lights the ball up, the surface helps him, and he throws this line in there, he goes in the middle, he goes, and he's only looking to pull the trigger one time in the point. So he's a really tough opponent. And that just has always stuck with me. And that's what I said to Ben's dad is that Ben needs to just go, I could pull the trigger on this ball, but it's not quite the right one yet. I could pull the trigger on the next ball. Literally, you could pull the trigger on every ball he hits. But growth, his his maturity, his tennis development and tennis IQ is getting better because you're hitting a ball that makes the opponent uncomfortable, you're hitting a ball that can extract an error, and you don't always have to hit the winner. So Ben's development is going to be predicated on one more ball in the court and making a better decision on when to pull the trigger. And I thought he did a great job in the Tommy Paul match and a great job in the Francis Tiafone match of not pulling too early. And then he went and played Novak and just everything went to hell in a hand basket. And it didn't. But that was, you know, I was for the Tiafone match getting back to that. You know, I'm watching at the start and the first kind of 10 minutes, it looked kind of even, you know, good decisions, both sides, good points, both sides. Francis was so quick coming to the net. He does such a great job of, you know, hitting a ball and he's already leaning on it, you know, with his short little backswing on the backhand. And all of a sudden he's almost leaning over the net, spiking these volleys. I'm like, oh, my God, this guy has figured out, you know, the only person I saw that really blew me out of the water with that was McEnroe, John McEnroe. He looked like he went through a time warp, whereas it takes, you know, all of us 1 .5 seconds to move from the baseline inside into the service box. But he goes through this time warp that looks like 0 .2 of a second. He's like, how does he get in there that quickly? Francis showed me that early on. But then the focus, the concentration, the locked in, the decision making started to erode at around the 10 to 15 minute mark, and he never recovered from that. Yeah. So you get Ben has Novak in the semifinals. And I think that Novak, I mean, just has this ability to you know, it's what I was it's kind of what Coco did. I call it cumulative pressure. And it is. I'm going to run the ball down, I'm going to make you hit an extra ball, I'm going to make you play one more ball every point on your serve so that later you feel it. You may not feel it now, but later you feel it. And that was an example of what I call cumulative pressure that kind of got to Ben. Yeah. What was your take on what Novak did to Ben or vice versa, what Ben did not do that match that he did the previous matches? Yeah, good point. That was that was a really fun match to be at the energy, the atmosphere, you know, the old guard, the new guard. You're exactly right. There was, you know, on that court in twenty eighteen, I worked with Novak to defeat Del Potro. And a lot of the commentators, when you go back and go through that match, they're like, Del Potro is dropping 135, 138 and Novak's putting it back in his shoes. And the commentators are like, how in the world is he doing this? Well, there's only one way that you do that is that you study Del Potro's patterns and you know what to say. When Del Potro needs a point in the juice court, he's going to and when he doesn't need a point, he's going to go, why? Novak's sitting there on it. And I felt the same thing is that Ben's dropping heat on especially on first serves. And Novak is putting so many balls back in play that you're exactly right, that it just kept accumulating and accumulating. The other thing that really stood out to me. That I don't know why is that Ben sliced so many returns, just this slow, just not even like a Federer kind of knifing, dark slice, it's this blocking slow slice that's not as good as Wawrinka's. It's not within a meter of the baseline. It's there was once he's just too defensive. So he's putting no pressure, no pressure on Novak because because he overdid the slice. Now, all of a sudden, he's got to deal with so many serves coming back and then the decision making. Then he starts, you know, the fingers kind of on the trigger, then he starts pulling it too much. And then, you know, Novak knows why this kid is potentially a real problem for me. But I've already figured him out about 15 minutes in. He's not doing anything against my serve. I'm doing everything against his serve and putting times back. I'm just going to press cruise control and take a nap for the next 30 kilometers. Yeah. And I think that was probably the one mistake and probably a tactic that was misinterpreted was, hey, if on his serve, put pressure on because you get racket on every ball, not to bunt every ball. Right. Because Novak is the is the history, the best returner in history, but he's not the best server in history. And he I don't want to call it vulnerable, but you will have an opportunity or two against Novak on his serve in a five set match. And I thought, Ben, with as great of a service he had, with as big of a service he has, he didn't take enough risks on the return gains and he didn't play. Correct. And when I say aggressive, I don't mean like crazy out of this world, we're winners, but controlled aggression. There was no reason Novak serving a buck 21, a buck 22 for you to block the serve back. You can have plenty of time to take a full swing and at least send a message for the rest of his career that your serve doesn't bother me. Right. Part of being a young guy is how do I apply cumulative pressure that may not work this match, but in three or four matches from now in the next semi? Right. Because you still got to go through Novak that shows them I'm not bothered by your serve and you better be you will be bothered by my serve. Right. And I think that was sort of a missed opportunity for Ben to take some cuts at Novak serve. And I think that set the tone for the match that allowed Novak to kind of steam roll.
The Mason Minute
Raw Emotion (MM #4541)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. Something I love happens right around this time every year. It's the Little League World Series. I attempted to play baseball as a kid, ended up getting injured when I was 13, and I wasn't that good to begin with. It wasn't like I was going to the World Series, so I've always watched from afar. But in recent years, because I've been in towns where there were local teams playing in the World Series, I've taken more of an interest. And even though our local Nolensville, Tennessee team lost to the eventual champions, I still like to watch all the games, no matter where the teams are from. And the one thing I love most about it is truly the raw emotion that these young athletes experience, that they feel, that they show. You know, as we get older, you learn to be tough. You learn not to let the fear, the panic, the pain, any of the bad stuff show. What I love about these kids, they give up a grand slam home run, and you see the tears. And the coach comes out to console them. And when they give up the losing run, and they lose by one, and they just, they feel it and they're done, you see the anguish. A lot of talent out there. That's impressive. But just the way they play the game, the way they feel. I love it even more.
The Mason Minute
Raw Emotion (MM #4541)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. Something I love happens right around this time every year. It's the Little League World Series. I attempted to play baseball as a kid, ended up getting injured when I was 13, and I wasn't that good to begin with. It wasn't like I was going to the World Series, so I've always watched from afar. But in recent years, because I've been in towns where there were local teams playing in the World Series, I've taken more of an interest. And even though our local Nolensville, Tennessee team lost to the eventual champions, I still like to watch all the games, no matter where the teams are from. And the one thing I love most about it is truly the raw emotion that these young athletes experience, that they feel, that they show. You know, as we get older, you learn to be tough. You learn not to let the fear, the panic, the pain, any of the bad stuff show. What I love about these kids, they give up a grand slam home run, and you see the tears. And the coach comes out to console them. And when they give up the losing run, and they lose by one, and they just, they feel it and they're done, you see the anguish. A lot of talent out there. That's impressive. But just the way they play the game, the way they feel. I love it even more.
The Mason Minute
Raw Emotion (MM #4541)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. Something I love happens right around this time every year. It's the Little League World Series. I attempted to play baseball as a kid, ended up getting injured when I was 13, and I wasn't that good to begin with. It wasn't like I was going to the World Series, so I've always watched from afar. But in recent years, because I've been in towns where there were local teams playing in the World Series, I've taken more of an interest. And even though our local Nolensville, Tennessee team lost to the eventual champions, I still like to watch all the games, no matter where the teams are from. And the one thing I love most about it is truly the raw emotion that these young athletes experience, that they feel, that they show. You know, as we get older, you learn to be tough. You learn not to let the fear, the panic, the pain, any of the bad stuff show. What I love about these kids, they give up a grand slam home run, and you see the tears. And the coach comes out to console them. And when they give up the losing run, and they lose by one, and they just, they feel it and they're done, you see the anguish. A lot of talent out there. That's impressive. But just the way they play the game, the way they feel. I love it even more.
The Mason Minute
Raw Emotion (MM #4541)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. Something I love happens right around this time every year. It's the Little League World Series. I attempted to play baseball as a kid, ended up getting injured when I was 13, and I wasn't that good to begin with. It wasn't like I was going to the World Series, so I've always watched from afar. But in recent years, because I've been in towns where there were local teams playing in the World Series, I've taken more of an interest. And even though our local Nolensville, Tennessee team lost to the eventual champions, I still like to watch all the games, no matter where the teams are from. And the one thing I love most about it is truly the raw emotion that these young athletes experience, that they feel, that they show. You know, as we get older, you learn to be tough. You learn not to let the fear, the panic, the pain, any of the bad stuff show. What I love about these kids, they give up a grand slam home run, and you see the tears. And the coach comes out to console them. And when they give up the losing run, and they lose by one, and they just, they feel it and they're done, you see the anguish. A lot of talent out there. That's impressive. But just the way they play the game, the way they feel. I love it even more.
The Mason Minute
Raw Emotion (MM #4541)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. Something I love happens right around this time every year. It's the Little League World Series. I attempted to play baseball as a kid, ended up getting injured when I was 13, and I wasn't that good to begin with. It wasn't like I was going to the World Series, so I've always watched from afar. But in recent years, because I've been in towns where there were local teams playing in the World Series, I've taken more of an interest. And even though our local Nolensville, Tennessee team lost to the eventual champions, I still like to watch all the games, no matter where the teams are from. And the one thing I love most about it is truly the raw emotion that these young athletes experience, that they feel, that they show. You know, as we get older, you learn to be tough. You learn not to let the fear, the panic, the pain, any of the bad stuff show. What I love about these kids, they give up a grand slam home run, and you see the tears. And the coach comes out to console them. And when they give up the losing run, and they lose by one, and they just, they feel it and they're done, you see the anguish. A lot of talent out there. That's impressive. But just the way they play the game, the way they feel. I love it even more.
Mark Levin
Georgia Case Is the Democrat Party's Last Resort
"One out of the park with the radical anti -Trumper Obama Democrat judge handling the Ku Klux Klan charge and the Enron charge, the financial obstruction charge. And they're hoping that they can smear the judge enough in Florida that she will rubber stamp what Jack Smith has done in the Democrat DC grand jury in Washington DC. If that doesn't get done, if Trump gets through all those hurdles, which is it, unless his lawyers get done, then they can always count on Atlanta. Atlanta came in last. That's their grand slam hitter. That's their number four batter. Thank general RICO statute which quite well. And they have that going on. 39 9 charges. Oh, you're going to hear all kinds of scary stuff. The collectors. Conspiracy to obstruct. Yeah, right. We've heard of all kinds scary stuff. What they're saying here to not just Trump and what others don't understand is they're saying it to Republicans. You may not challenge elections. Democrats can challenge whatever they want. You cannot. And so again, I write about this in the
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"Welcome to the official tennis .com podcast featuring professional coach and community leader, Kamau Murray. Welcome to the tennis .com podcast. I'm your host Kamau Murray, and we have officially entered my favorite part of the tennis tour. And that's the summer hardcore swing in the Americas. And there's two words that come to my mind when you think about this swing. Number one, momentum. And number two, pressure. You look at people who do well at the US Open and they always build momentum at these events, whether it's DC, Toronto, Montreal, Cincinnati. I think the way that these tournaments are placed on the calendar being back to back with high level 500 level events and 1000 level events. I mean, you don't even have to win the events, but having a set of good wins at these level events really positions you to play well at the Open. If you look at the people who have won US Open, they have always built a lot of momentum for themselves in this swing. We saw Coco Gauff win DC. Could that be the start of what we as American tennis players are hoping for? And that is the eventual Grand Slam title out of Coco. And my God, would it be great to have it happen at what I consider to be the Super Bowl of our Slam, the US Open. But I also think about the pressure. I think about a city like DC that has eight to 10 pros on tour, male and female. And it's always interesting to see, A, how they love playing in front of the home crowd, but B, to see who holds up to the pressure of playing in front of the home crowd. And then you take a trip to Montreal and Toronto, and you think about Andrescu, Bouchard, Ronis, Fernandes, you think about all these players. And it's always interesting to see who holds up to the pressure of playing at really the only the biggest tournament on the calendar happens to be in Canada. And that is their one time to shine, where you look at Americans, you know, you got India, you got Miami, you got US Open, you got Cincy. We've got multiple opportunities to sort of have a good run with Canadians. This is their one shot. So it's always interesting to see who emerges from the pressure. If I had to say who was building the most momentum for themselves right now, I would have to say it's Atlanta Spitalina. The way she's come back, even in her losses, the quality of her losses, a three set loss to Pagula, who's had a great two year run on tour. And then Chris Eubanks. Chris Eubanks has been playing lights out tennis, has built positive momentum for himself before Wimbledon, during Wimbledon, a couple good wins in Atlanta, a good win in DC, and a tough three set loss to Monfils. So those are the two players that I would say are building the most momentum for themselves entering the swing. Ironically, our guest today is Vashik Paspasil, a Canadian known for his doubles, but mostly known for his leadership. Very vocal about unionizing the tour for tennis players, fighting for equal pay, fighting for more share of the pay versus the promoters in the events. And trying to sort of elevate the players' earnings to be closer to what players of other sports earn. Let's take a listen to who Vashik had to say. Welcome to the tennis .com podcast. I'm your host Kamau Murray, and we are here with a leader on tour, a very vocal player with a high tennis IQ, which is a high IQ for life. And how to grow the sport, a favorite in the locker room, and a Canadian superstar who, you know, honestly was leading the charge years ago when Canada was starting to bubble up. You came here and Vashik, Vashik, Vashik, Milos, and then Dennis, right, and you know, and Dresskew, but you know, you were at the start of that. So Vashik Paspasil, welcome to the show, brother. Hey, thanks for having me. If half those things are true, then, you know, I'm afraid it's far. Being a coach, you know, we sit there on our phone for a long time while y 'all get massages and y 'all are in the locker room just talking shit. So we hear a lot of incidental conversations. So everything that I said is true. You are a favorite in the locker room, and well respected, you know, it's like sitting on my phone on WhatsApp one day and hear people say, I love that dude, Vashik, he's so damn smart. You know, that's what the players say about you. Well, that's good. That's good to know. So you definitely got a career in management and tennis management after this, right? Because everyone wants a piece of your brain. So let me ask you this. Your story is so interesting to me because of just how you merely, you know, came to Canada. So I spent a lot of time in Canada, in Toronto training, etc. And what amazed me about Toronto is how everybody there is not from there. It's just, it's like amazing that I think of 10 people, maybe you meet one that's actually from Canada, right, and didn't migrate there. So tell me about how you landed there. Tell me about, you know, the roots from the Czech Republic. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I mean, Canada is a country of immigrants, some, you know, more recent, and some, you know, a couple generations. But I was actually born in Canada, so I'm one of the ones, I came to Canada as anyone that was born there would, you know, through my mom's womb. But my parents actually, yeah, my parents escaped the communist regime in Czech Republic back in 88 with my two older brothers. They spent a year in Austria working under the table, I mean, just trying to like survive, I guess, or just, you know, save up enough money to come to Canada. And because my uncle escaped a couple years prior and he was already in a small town in Vernon, which is where I ended up growing up, where I was born. And so my parents finally, you know, they saved up enough to come to Canada, and then I was born a year later. And then, yeah, and then there's a whole, you know, the whole tennis journey began pretty quickly. I mean, ever since I can remember, right, as soon as I started walking, I pretty much had a tennis racket and my dad was a huge, you know, I guess, extremely passionate about the sport. He, you know, was more of a recreational player, I guess, when, you know, in Czech Republic just played for fun. But when he came to Canada, he just became incredibly passionate about it and was, you know, watching tennis on TV, reading magazines on how to coach, reading about just became, you know, a tennis nut and started coaching my brothers and wanted one of his kids to be a professional player. So I guess that's kind of just, you know, how it started and yeah, here I am, I guess, 27 years later from when I first started playing. Now talk about, you know, escaping Czech, because I've heard stories of like your dad just being a straight up G, just driving through the border. Like, you know, just driving through border protection and control, like not just like, oh, he escaped. He just gangstered his way through the border. Yeah, I mean, I wish my dad was here to tell you this story because it's pretty incredible. I've only ever heard it from his mouth a couple times, which is really surprising when you think about it. But yeah, he basically, I mean, they didn't tell their family or anything. They couldn't, right? So they had to be extremely secretive about that. And yeah, I just packed up the car with my two brothers in the backseat, my mom in the front and just went to the border. And I mean, the way he kind of explained it was, you know what, he didn't really even have a plan. He just kind of rolled up to the border. He was in one of the lanes for, you know, I guess the average people are trying to cross the cross. And then there was like a special lane for special passports, which had a gap in it. And he just said, OK, I'm just going to go right through it. So he basically just went to that lane and he put up the passports and covered the logo, because I guess they had like a special sticker or logo or something on the front of the passport and didn't make eye contact with the border patrol agent. So he just put up the passports, kept looking forward and the guy was yelling at him to stop and he just kind of drove through. And at that point, you know, they have machine gun towers and all that. And back then they would shoot cars, right? That would do that. And I guess just, you know, I guess they didn't know who my dad was. I guess they don't want to shoot someone that, you know, potentially could be a super important ambassador or something. You never know. Right. So I guess they just kind of let him through. And he was looking in the rearview mirror and they didn't come after him. And that was that was that was kind of it. But there's a lot more to the story. I mean, this is that, you know, there's that's for like a two hour conversation with the 32nd overview summary. So you talk about, you know, his role in your tennis, right? Your dad had this dream amateur tennis player, nothing special. But like I put him in the category of the Richard Williams, you know what I mean? The other the other parents who just sort of read books, watched videos and figured it out. And, you know, when I was a kid, one of the things I used to dread was the hour drive home after a bad practice for a bad match. Right. And so it was like, so I know your dad's famous for, like, long drive, right, driving. So tell me about the time in the car. Yeah. Post practice, post tournament with your father. Yeah, he was definitely he was pretty fiery, pretty intense. I mean, you know, he toned down a lot kind of as he got older, but he's the most amazing person, like most biggest heart ever. And yeah, we had for sure. It's not easy when your dad is your coach. And obviously my dad is super passionate. And like you said, there are, you know, parallels for sure to the to the Richard Williams story. I mean, I saw I actually saw King Richard. Yeah. A couple of weeks. I was really late to the party. But what an unbelievable movie and story. But yeah, I was just thinking back like my dad doing double shifts and and, you know, working overnight. And whenever he was home, we'd be on the court and then and playing on these cracked high school public courts, obviously in a much safer environment. But but yeah, I mean, it was it was a lot of hard work and a lot of passion went to it. Right. For the same reason. So just kind of a lot of energy. And then if you're not playing well, I mean, you know. Right. So I think my dad was if we I think, you know, if I didn't have a good attitude or if I or if I just kind of was like not dialed or something, you know, he wouldn't he wouldn't necessarily be too happy about that. So so I definitely dreaded the the the car rides back after like a bad practice or a bad match. I mean, for sure. I think everyone with with dedicated parents that kind of really want their kids to succeed and kind of project that passion. You know, it's not anything I think that's a large reason. You know, the main reason as to why I became successful was was how much energy and and, you know, commitment my my dad and my sacrifice that my my family made. But, you know, specifically my dad, how much he put into, you know, developing me and my brothers and wanting me to be a success. And so, you know, as tough as it was at times, I mean, it was I'm so grateful that that, you know, that things were tough. I mean, I worked super hard and, you know, we went through a lot together, but we have we have a bond. Very long answer. Sorry, but we have we have a bond now that that obviously is super special because we our relationship is amazing. And, you know, he he's a really smart guy and he he. Yeah, he just, you know, we we did the best of what we had and I think he couldn't have done anything better and I couldn't have asked for for anything more. You look at the story of most pro tennis player, and there's always a parent that pushes, you know to me like if, if this my theory right being a coach right having an academy. If you leave it up to the kids, they'll sit down, they'll sit at the crib and like, watch TV play video game play with toys that kind of thing. So it does take a mildly insane parent to be the driving force, and to keep coaches honest right because, you know, even laid back parent is not watching you kind of like passing the time milk in the hour, but if you have a parent that like, no, I need some, I need some results out of this. Then it's like, oh, now you bring your a game right so without that force. You don't make a pro tennis player, period, point blank. Exactly. I mean, I, yeah, and it's hard for people that haven't gone through this process, like you and I are just within Tesla to understand this because it's like okay well the other sports you can start later and this or you know kids all I'll let my kid decide what he wants to do like, yeah, that's great. I mean, that's one way to do it but I mean, and it might be, you know, there's no one path for everyone and you hear that a lot like people, you know that's that's but, but I will say that, you know, when you're when you're a kid, when you're a kid I mean you don't know what you really you don't like it's you need some kind of direction like you said I mean if you're just like okay I'm going to do what I want. Like okay I'll go play soccer for a bit I'll go play hockey I'll go play video games with my friends and okay I'll get my homework done but, but really like the more time you spend at a young age on your craft, and it's even more so important tennis because you need to learn the technique and the skill and the, and like the hand eye coordination the ball control and just general, you know, perception on on on the court and reading the game and. So the more time you spend there and so, so again because there's so many variables so many different aspects that sport. I think it's so critical to spend a lot of, you know, from a young age, more so than maybe some other sports right so, but like you said, I, I'm a very strong believer that, you know, if you don't have that, that one, at least that one person from a young age that's that's kind of like, you know, keeping you on track or kind of pushing you in a good way of course then it, then, you know, it's not impossible, obviously, but I think the odds of succeeding are, you know, quite diminished at that point. Yeah.
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"EP sports, I'm Josh rowntree, a busy night on the diamond and we start in Canada where the Blue Jays dropped the brewer 7 two. Alejandro Kirk and Vladimir Guerrero junior each had three hits and Kevin biggio had a pair and drove in a run. In Seattle, the Yankees beat the Mariners tend to Aaron judge homered for a third straight game in Houston, the Astros topple the twins 5 one as Alex Bregman, hit his 7th home run of the year. The Orioles dropped the guardians 8 5 Anthony Santander with three hits and three RBIs got our Henderson also drove in three runs. The Padres topped the Marlins 9 four, the rangers out slugged the tigers ten 6 Cincinnati edge Boston 9 8 things to Jose barrero Grand Slam. The mets blank the Phillies to nothing, St. Louis got by the royals two one, while the cubs beat the rays by the same score. The Dodgers beat Washington 9 three and a big change to one of the NBA's marquee franchises, bob Myers departing as president and GM of the Golden State Warriors after winning four titles in an 8 year span. I'm Josh Brown tree, AP sports.
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French Open's No. 2 seed, Daniil Medvedev, loses to 172nd-ranked qualifier, Thiago Seyboth Wild
"Second seeded daniil Medvedev has lost in the first round of the French Open in 5 sets to an opponent who is ranked 172nd and was playing only his second match in the main draw of any Grand Slam tournament. Thiago sabot wield is a 23 year old from Brazil who needed to go through qualifying rounds at Roland Garros just to earn a spot in the men's bracket. He looked very much like he belonged on court Philippe chatrier on Tuesday, hitting big forehands and keeping his nerves down the stretch to win 766-726-6364. I'm geffen coolbaugh.
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Lewis has 4 RBIs in season debut, Jeffers homers in 10th to give Twins 7-5 win over Astros
"Ryan Jeffers tenth inning two run Homer sent the twins to a 7 to 5 win over the Astros. The Homer was Jeffers third hit of the game and it left the bat at a 117.4 miles an hour. I felt really good. I wasn't sure if I had a high enough to get it out. But I did. Royce Lewis finished two for 5 with a Homer and four RBI in his season debut for the twins, exactly one year after suffering a torn ACL. Alex Kerala often Willie Castro added a pair of hits. Jose Altuve hit a Grand Slam for Houston. Adam Spillane Houston.
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Corey Seagar hits grand slam in 8-run 4th, Rangers beat Orioles 12-2
"The rangers exploded for an 8 run fourth inning and went on to beat the Orioles 12 to two. Corey Seager hit his third career Grand Slam in the inning and Robbie Grossman added a two run shot. John gray went 7 innings to earn his 5th win. He says he could relax after the fourth inning. It makes it easy. The whole field of the game changed after that. So I feel like there really really flipped the flip the switch and made almost on our side after that. You know, we just got to go plug baseball. Jason and Rodriguez gave up 6 earned runs and fell to two and two, adley rushman homered for the Orioles. Craig heist Baltimore
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FRENCH OPEN 2023: Alcaraz, Djokovic on same half of draw; Swiatek-Gauff could be in quarterfinals
"Carlos alcaraz and the man he just replaced atop the rankings 22 time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic were placed in the same half of the French Open field in Thursday's draw and could face each other in the semifinals. The 20 year old alcaraz is seated number one at a Grand Slam tournament for the first time and was automatically placed in the top section of the bracket, Djokovic is seated number three. 14 time champion Rafael Nadal will be missing for the first time since he made his debut at the clay court major in 2005, play begin Sunday at Roland Garros. I'm geffen coolbaugh.
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Alvarez hits solo homer, slam as the Astros rout Brewers 12-2 for 8th straight win
"On their way to an 8th straight win, the Astros hit 5 home runs in a 12 to two route of the brewers. Jordan Alvarez hit two homers, including a Grand Slam that blew the game open at ten to one in the 6th inning. Astros manager dusty baker says Alvarez continues to impress. Big fellow, you know, he can just hit. He can really hit. So he's on the best cities in this game and one of the best that I've seen. The 12 runs at 15 hits for both season highs for the Astros, brewers starter Corbin burns, gave up four of the homers, ASTRO starter Christian Xavier got the win. Milwaukee
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Aaron Nola, Kyle Schwarber power Phillies past Cubs 12-3 to snap 5-game skid
"Kyle schwarber got the offense going early for the Phillies as they ended a 5 game losing streak with a 12 three win over the cubs. Four nothing in the bottom of the first with a Grand Slam home run, the home run was his 11th of the season, the Grand Slam was the 5th of his career. Okay, guys out there listen two outs. Obviously, got a hanging curveball and was able to put a good swing up. Aaron nola picked up the window improved the four and three, dansby Swanson, and Christopher morell holberg for the cubs. Michael luongo, Philadelphia
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"The Dow showed no signs of age won the Australian open then the French to move up to 22 Grand Slam titles, but he's 35 and the Dallas won only two of his last 9 matches out in the second round in Melbourne upsetting straight sets by American Mackenzie mcdaniel ranked 65th the lowest ranked player to ever beat Nadal in a Grand Slam. Big win for coco Goff. He beat emirate condo the Brit who won the U.S. open a couple of years ago, the net struggling without their stars zero one three since Kevin Durant went down and in San Antonio, they were also without Kyrie Irving injured cap the spurs one one O 6 to 98 and nix host Washington tonight. Colleges Houston is ranked number one the cougars one by 20 improving to 18 and one Kansas, defending national jams and ranked second, but J offs lost by a point in overtime at Kansas state. Giants worked out yesterday in the normal week, NFL players get Tuesday off and not when you have to play Saturday as the Giants will do in Philadelphia, Daniel Jones coming off a terrific game in Minnesota and excited about now another playoff game. To still be playing, this is where you want to be. Playing these big games. So it's an awesome opportunity for us, but as far as our approach and our preparation, it's going to be, it's going to be consistent with what we've done all year. The eagles had the buy. They're hoping that enabled their QB Jalen hurts his shoulder to feel better Philly a 7 and a half point favorite. John stash, I want Bloomberg sports, Nathan. Appreciate that, John, thanks so much and the Bloomberg sports report was brought to
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"The industry deals with the shortage of workers and pilots And President Biden says he has been briefed on the missing Americans in Ukraine Brian shook has the very latest Three Americans are reportedly missing in the country with Biden saying it is not known where they are He reiterated that nobody from the U.S. should be going to Ukraine The three military veterans went to the country to help in the fight against Russia I'm Brian shook And that's the latest I'm Jim Forbes Now this Bloomberg sports update after two rounds of play at the U.S. open golf tournament in Brookline Massachusetts Colin Morikawa and Joel Damon atop a leader board at 5 under par defending champion John rahm among a group of 5 players who are at four under Phil Mickelson failed to make the cut Victories on Friday night for both of us and the Yankees and it was the Grand Slam home run that played a key role in each team's victory At city field the mets on the Marlins met for the first time this season and the mets come away with a ten to four win highlighted by Pete Alonso's Grand Slam part of a 7 run 6th inning for Alonso is 19th Homer of the year Francisco Lindor homered in the first to give them an early three zero lead Carlos Carrasco pitched 6 plus innings and strikeout 7 He is now 8 and two on the year The mets now lead the braves by 5 and a half games the braves had their 14 game winning streak snapped by the cubs one's another In Toronto the Yankees unleash a 14 hit attack including four home runs to beat the Blue Jays 12 to three to take the first game of the three game weekend series Yankees have now won 8 straight and it was Anthony Rizzo's Grand Slam in the 5th inning that highlighted an 8 run uprising that put the game away for Rizzo his 17th Homer of the year John Carlos danton DJ le mayhew and Joey Gallo all went deep Jordan Montgomery raises his record to three and one allowing just two runs over 6 innings and striking out 5 The Colorado avalanche looking to take a commanding lead in the Stanley Cup final Colorado hosting the Tampa Bay lightning for game two tonight in Denver the avalanche came away with a four three win in game one after Andre we were cosi netted the game winner in overtime Major League Soccer the Red Bulls will be looking to bounce back from last week's loss to Charlotte New York playing host to Toronto FC lanyard tonight in Harrison the Red Bulls tied with CF Montreal in the standings with 23 points Will the Bloomberg sports update I'm Tom.
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"George Thank you Tom We start here in England where two teenagers from Manchester are being questioned by counter terrorism police in connection with a hostage situation as a synagogue in Texas on Saturday The auras come after British system Malik visal akram was shot dead after holding four people against their will for ten hours British foreign secretary Liz trus and U.S. president Joe Biden described it as an act of terrorism Meanwhile Biden said to meet Japanese prime minister humi kushida virtually this week Bloomberg Isabel Reynolds says this comes after the spread of COVID has stemmed efforts to organize and in person summit A White House statement said the two would discuss issues including the free and open indo Pacific as well as climate change and COVID-19 in their video meeting on Friday The two leaders have so far met only briefly on the sidelines of the cop 26 climate summit and spoken once by phone since kishida took office in October His next chance to bond with Biden may be at a summit of the quad leaders which also include India and Australia In Tokyo Isabel Reynolds Bloomberg daybreak Europe For the fourth time this month North Korea has test fired missiles South Korea's military said that Kim Jong-un's regime fired what appeared to be two ballistic missiles into the waters of its east coast The tests could be a way to force the Biden administration to come up with a new strategy towards Kim And the Novak Djokovic stroma is over making way for tennis to be played as the Australian open has begun Bloomberg's Georgina Mackay reports Djokovic has been deported from Australia after a federal court upheld a decision to revoke his Visa The world number one had hoped to compete for a record 21st Grand Slam title Now that the drama is over Melbourne is hoping attention will refocus on the first Grand Slam of 2022 The tournament is one of the country's key overseas tourism draw carbs raking in $280 million in 2020 just before the pandemic As the virus continues to cause havoc crowd capacity is to be limited and spectators must wear masks In Sydney I'm Georgina Mackay Bloomberg daybreak Europe Global news 24 hours a day honor and Don Bloomberg quick take powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than a 120 countries I am Hannah George this is Bloomberg Caroline He's so much Hannah Let's just get the sports news says Chris cave Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp hinted a glimmer of hope remains in their quest for the Premier League title yesterday's three nil win over Brentford moves them back up to second 11 points behind leaders Manchester City with a game in hand West Ham's hopes of a top four finish were Delta blow as they lost three two at home to leads Rafa Benitez claims he needed to win people's hearts as well as football matches following his sacking by Everton He departs after 6 and a half months in charge with the team's 6 points clear of the relegation zone The Merseyside club are now on the lookout for a new manager having won just once in the Premier League since September Okay coming up on Bloomberg daybreak Europe we're going to speak with you gimbal global market strategy at JPMorgan asset management This is Bloomberg I haven't really woken up Until I've had my McDonald's breakfast deal and I know this is true because before breakfast I put my phone in the refrigerator and couldn't find the keys that were already in my hand Nothing gets the morning going like the first.
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"Fedex were now meets next in the last two weeks of the here. They finally come play for chelsea and barcelona event in manchester city. they're ranked tenth in the world. Now man this is going to be so much fun. united states. men's national soccer team played. Its first three regional qualification games for the twenty twenty two world cup. It went like this. Two hundred and twenty-five gouge my eyes out minutes against sixty four th ranked el salvador fifty nine th ranked canada and sixty third ranked honduras two and a half games and then he final forty five. That prevented me from throwing a blunt. Object through the television screen and burning my old landon. Donovan t-shirt actually. I love my old landon. Donovan t-shirt him would never burn it. The americans tied el salvador and canada. Which is frankly pathetic. And we're losing one to nothing to honduras when a trio of subs an eighteen year old playing in his first senior international match save. The teams asked with four second-half goals. Hope might not spring eternal. But it'll get me to the next trio of qualifiers in october josh. There were reasons to not jump off a cliff over the team's performance namely injuries and a kovic positive. Too key players us. Gino destined christian pulisic but after a summer of genuine optimism. I sure felt a large surge of the old familiar anger frustration and nausea watching this team. You like i just listened. In urban meyer post-game speech there anyways inexcusable. I mean all the illegal formation penalties against el salvador. It was hard to watch your. You're right yeah. I wish i could say that was above it all in shame on you but i also felt kind of deeply annoyed watching those first two and a half games. Because i've i've become invest in this team and certainly bought into all that hype. And there's people like landon donovan. Who has been saying a bunch of smart things. Particular grant walls podcast about the series of qualification games. He is like a thoughtful and extremely knowledgeable guy and he says repeatedly the thing that the fans don't understand is how hard it is to win away and concacaf games like in central america with these crowds in these teams in these fields. And so there's a certain sense that like. Oh the lake. Sophisticated and savvy and not knee jerk fan. I'm going to be all like sensible about you. Know a drawn. El salvador is not like a terrible result but like that game against canada pedophile the first half against under s pitiful and at a certain point it just seems like an excuse that hasn't particularly convincing And like that that kind of any any results on the road and central america's just explained away by like forget. Jake it's chinatown but in the second half they gave like. Oh yeah you can score a bunch of goals and beat this team. That's like clearly doesn't have as much depth talent and that's like a thing that's possible even in an away game and concacaf and another thing that was said on grandma's podcasts. That i thought was actually really smart and interesting that maybe the thing that is the problem for the us or has been for the is that they're actually trying to be too smart and trying to tactically sophisticated like playing all these like playing formations that they've never played before playing com lineup combinations. That they've never played before trying to do all this. Like ticky taka passing bullshit when the reality is a national team soccer louisa and like we can translate this across any sport. It's like you know olympic basketball or something. These guys never play together. The the whole national the national team barely ever gets together. These lineups played together. Why are you trying to do all of this like sophisticated like lineup. Passing type stuff just like bashed the ball down. Use your superior talent and just like be super aggressive and try to score some goal. It's a very. I'm an unsophisticated. Soccer viewer and commentator. But it just seems like they're trying too hard and like trying to like be too smart when that's really not what's called for in these situations. I think that that sounds. I'm i'm even less sophisticated soccer person than you are. But i mean i do think that coach is often over. Think things especially when you have a group of players who are maybe extremely talented but don't know each other patterns and habits and can't anticipate associated group that as young as the soccer team is this. You know the national team is. We decided in the you know the the olympics the usa basketball. I mean it's it's not like those guys are bad basketball players but it took them a minute figure out how to play together. And i think the one thing that we've seen on on the women's side with their overwhelming successes that they played together for for so long and play together. So much dot must massive. We know that that's a big part of their success. And it's going to take awhile probably for this team. And it's also going to take some intelligence their coaches to figure out not to make things hard on josh. That it's a it's a question of changing style so much like playing tiki taka soccer. It's really a question of the history of the united states is relationship with these other conch calf countries on the field. This is the sort of overthinking and and over managing which we saw in these games from the coach gregg berhalter who should have been fired if they had. Not one against thunderous is that it warned of like thirty years of not being that much better than honduras or el salvador and not believing that we should beat every one of these teams in our region except for mexico and maybe costa rica by three or four goals every time they step on the field with them because they are that much better as soccer players even the eighteen and nineteen year olds that are on this team and you know so the el salvador honduras with all due respect are ranked fiftieth and sixtieth in the world. For a reason. And until i think the mentality is adopted by everybody in the us program that there is no excuse for not winning these games by multiple goals..
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"You know another example the same phenomenon and then if you wanted to criticize seats for anything it should have been that. He basically trotted out some misinformation about vaccinations and being anti vaccine mean. The greek government came out and criticized him for his irresponsible. And a scientific remarks about definitely feel like conscious or unconscious sublimate and louisa. Just how much focus. There was on this dumb non controversy controversy during the us open. Absolutely i mean. I mean it's it's hard to know sometimes when you are a semi news and semi entertainment organization You know what kind of calculus is going into. That is that they don't wanna get in legal. Trouble is that they said comfortable. For whatever particular announcers is it They don't think it's gonna be good for ratings whereas you know something as dumb as bathroom breaks is kind of captured. The imagination of skeptical logically minded immature public. I don't know. I mean it's it's hard to say i mean i i think that I think that broadcasts have an ongoing tradition of blowing Discussions about a lot of these things. I mean i think you know. In the first game of the season. Chris collins worth referred to antonio brown's million dollar smile and some quote some off the field stuff you know referring to really serious allegations against antonio brown so. I think that that works needs to do a better job at you. Know facing This public information and it does seem that this is a sort of no go area. Which is is pretty inexcusable and needs to be addressed In some way either by ourselves or by the public the forces them to do it. I think as the season goes on with the saints in with winston This will be talked about more. I think this week one storyline of i start. They blew out. the packers. is maybe going to push things in the direction that we've been talking about but we'll see i mean i wouldn't be surprised if it needs to be ignored but someone at some point or a lot of someone's at at at some point argonaut address and we'll we'll see How he deals with it. How the team deals with it. The nfl deals with it but You know steph. One of the more notable results from week one is just how terrible the jaguars looked against tyrod taylor and the houston texans and there was a story that came out by jason lockenfora of cbs sports. Before the game even started. I think there was just about how urban meyer mr raw college man Is everybody hates them. they're already i mean. Maybe i'm exaggerating a little bit but you know wanting them to take the preseason games more seriously being mad that they lost them just seems like a really really bad recipe for for an nfl team steph and just kind of like almost a cliche of like how college guys don't succeed in the nfl just like treating the players like children etcetera yeah and the inability to recognize that these are two different businesses. Whenever a college coach comes in the nfl. Very frequently is kind of amazing. It's almost as if shockingly football coaches don't spend any time reading about anything else but their own teams and preparing for the next game and even after this game. The jaguars lost people that thought. Trevor lawrence was going to be an all star quarterback and all pro quarterback out of the chute were wrong. I mean this is still a untested rookie quarterback in a very different and more advanced league and after the game urban. Meyer said it's inexcusable. The things that need to be fixed three preseason games. You'd think we'd have that fixed. So that's something we're that we're going to do. I would guesstimate. You would not see that again. that's inexcusable. That sort of garbage will not go over well in the locker room and the fact that urban meyer doesn't recognize that these are grown up adult players and not college students that he has complete and total control over is if not surprising at least entertaining for those of us who can't stand the sort of sanctimony us bullshit. The college coaches spout. I think unhinged is one of the words that came up in the. Cbs report about him. But yeah i mean. Let's not forget that he's not like he had a reputation for really knowing how to treat college students. Either i mean there were there. Were roughly can look red flags for years. I mean i do think that one of the things that's interesting. That's come come out of some of these reports and also the first game is kind of you know incompetent. You can trace back to the coaching staff. I mean a lot of the you can talk about drop passes and things like that but you know there were there were there. Were penalized for illegal formation. Three times you know. I mean there i mean there's just i mean it's just it's just a kind of in the offseason. He had difficulties figuring out the nfl schedule. Sort of overriding people. I mean it sort of it is like a joke. I mean it is funny. I mean this is the guy who brought back tim tebow. You know. I mean it's like he's living his own like hard knocks life It didn't cut. Tim tebow however and i'm sure it was very very difficult decision for him in the staff. Let's finish by talking about. I think our favorite moment of the past week which was cam newton's forty-three minute what. Tmz described in a phrase. That still makes me laugh. Every time i see it a sit down interview with his dad laughed. I laughed in that interview cam. Newton said that his alra his hairstyle the way talks way addresses and the way he dances. The reason bill belichick cut him last month. The reason why they released me is because indirectly. I was gonna be a distraction. 'cause i've been the star without being started and this was how verbally or in my aura. Okay just my own. Patriots started mac. John's the rookie lost to the dolphins stephan. Was this. Tell us a little bit more about the sit down interview. The camden had with his dad. And would you say that this actually was kind of a display of self awareness on campus. Part i mean he seemed to be pretty candid You know he. He said that they that he thinks that he would have been cut. Regardless of the fact that he seems to not have been vaccinated and had to miss five days of practice for violating protocol..
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"After the game. How did the defense in the run game give overall shape to the way displayed out janus. We were prepared. One thing my trainer. He told me he said what. Are you saying. He told us to be prepared. I don't know if i'm prepared to to say what i what i feel about. That earlier. returns stephan suggests that his pairing with sean payton could be quite fruitful on the field but this is also a guy who has credibly accused of rape. When he was in college though he was never criminally charged in two thousand eighteen he was suspended by the nfl for three games after allegedly groping uber driver. And now my favorite team has put me in a position where i have to root for this. They don't have to. But i feel somewhat obliged to root for the saints and so here we are and it feels very awkward stuff. I'm sure it did feel awkward. Josh but these the dilemmas that we face as fans sports really do force us to confront with who we are as human beings flow within ours is up with life's most challenging moral unethical questions and you root for the uniform designs that we love. So i feel for you but also sean payton. Let's not forget was once suspended for a season for participating in an operation to pay saints players for injuring opposing players and now has a cameo in a heart warming movies produced by adam sandler about coaching. His kids middle school football team during his banishment. From the nfl. Which according to tmz we'll focus on payton's time away from his job and how he grew as a person because of the experience so we love our redemptive narratives maybe jameis winston can reflect on his past now and not throw three interceptions. While also throwing thirty touchdown passes as he did in two thousand nine hundred redemption ark for jameis winston louisa both on that broadcast and also in the coverage that followed like computer kings column on monday. It's about his redemption from having thrown thirty interceptions as tampa starter in two thousand eighteen and he talks to Peter king about What's the throw that he's the most proud of and he talks about. Oh was this. Throw where i threw. The ball wasn't one of the five touchdowns is when i threw the ball away. And i was like smart and didn't force it and potentially throw it interception and i mean maybe it's a little bit of a stretch but i kind of connect to that with what winston said after the hurricane and saying i wanna thank all the first responders new orleans and all the people on the ground right now. We're with you. We're going to represent you. I mean this is a guy who both in terms of like the football guy stuff and the field stuff. He definitely knows what to say and he is saying quote unquote all of the right things and that doesn't make it any maybe makes it even more uncomfortable. Does the guy who's like acting out the role of like sensitive. Smart star quarterback for beloved local franchise. He's well prepared. You know if we know anything about him he's he's well prepared. I think all joking aside. It's hard you know what do you what do you do with the art of monstrous men You know it's a it's an old question and in sports it's particularly difficult because It's not just it's not just the work but the compensation and everything that goes with it in the broadest sense of the word so yeah at the end of the day being sports fan is to be put in a compromise position but i also think you guys are right that that what redemption generally means sports or adversity generally means in sports has to do with dropped passes and not really kinda messed up stuff and and and that's where we find ourselves and i guess at some point we we made that mean that deal. I do think that people tend to be complex. And it's perfectly plausible to me that he actually cares about first responders and also did these terrible things. I mean that he's allegedly done. It wouldn't be the first time that a person has has done great things and done terrible things when it wouldn't be a first time that you know we've completed You know Skill and success with some sort of moral fiber But it's important to keep these things in mind and also You know. I think that we this is a sports podcast you know. We are able to make some distinctions between are the people be root for and the laundry. I mean josh. The allegations against jameis winston are from three years ago when he was in the league and when he was in college and the nfl is dealing with a contemporaneous case. Right now shawn. Watson did not play on sunday for the houston texans. He is facing these allegations from more than twenty massage therapists about sexual harassment and assault. The houston texans overcame that adversity beating the jaguars in game. One behind. Backup quarterback tyrod taylor. I mean louis ivan thinking just about how we talk about quote unquote overcoming adversity in sports. But also like what are the kinds of controversies. That hurt safe to talk about and in the open you had. Espn's commentators declining over six rounds to say anything about the allegations published racket. Magazine and slate. Against sasha's veira of accused of abusing and ex girlfriend. What they did talk about quite extensively was the controversy over. Stefan city passes bathroom breaks. And then there's like a. I can't remember which round was but there was this kind of joke that i guess it was patrick. Mcenroe made a joke catch on the on the court where he's like there weren't any you know bathroom breaks in this match and it was just all like fighting and blah blah. Which like. i actually need to stop you right there. Because i feel like stephanos depaz has gotten a really bad deal and like he's not doing anything that's not in the rules and the bathroom breaks. He's taking and it was just like these guys are like going really like deep and intense on this this very kind of safe controversy and there's the other one this like elephant in the room that nobody is even touching about are addressing and just the fact that the.
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Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Year 27 1 and Grand Slam matches. Still no winner of all for the same year since Rod Laver did it more than 50 years ago. John stand shower. Bloomberg Sports John John. Thanks a lot. It is coming up at 6 38 on Wall Street. It's time to take a look at stocks and some of the names. They're moving in. Today's pre market for that we're joined by Bloomberg stocks Editor Dave Wilson, a happy Monday morning to Dave Thanks, John. It's going to be an adventure of Monday might say. For Kansas City Southern, Still waiting for trade to open up in the stock thing is of the railroad accepted takeover offer from Canadian Pacific, even though it's lower than a competing proposal from Canadian National Railway and that decision Followed US. Regulators rejection the Canadian nationals proposal for a voting trust and connection with the deal. Apple though it is moving, it's up 1% the latest versions of the iPhone and the Apple Watch or due to be introduced at an event tomorrow, And this happening occurs after a judge decided a court case brought by epic games that Apple Isn't a monopolist Virgin galactic having an issue with getting back in the air or getting back in space again, Um how's the stock reacting well down 3.5% in early Trade Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company, the latest next test flight until mid October in response to a possible manufacturing defect. Now US regulars are proving Virgin Galactic's previously which carried founder Richard Branson into space. You've got. Viacom CBS Up 2%. The Wall Street Journal Reporting at the media company is going to restructure its film unit, Paramount Pictures, and you've got trans Union that will be a stock to watch. In Early trading, the credit reporting company agreed to buy a security company called New Star for $3.1 billion. A event where, though down 9% this company made a deal last week to buy Master Flex for about 2.9 billion, and now the maker of lab chemicals is selling $750 million of shares. New way commerce Up 12%, the computer electronics retailer projected sales of about 1.2 billion for the second half and 2.4 billion for the year. Newegg also provided earnings forecasts recently. Public company some A list cause of note lift up 2%. The ride, hailing service received a buy rating as Goldman Sachs resumed coverage. MGM resorts up 2% casino owner was raised The equivalent bite from hold at Sanford Bernstein. Virgin Holdings Don't Down 3%. The power equipment makers cut to newsroom from the equipment by J. P. Morgan and check point software down 2%. The cybersecurity company was lowered to sell from neutral Goldman. That's according to the final wall. And John later today. Oracle, the business software maker, due to report fiscal first quarter results, All right, Dave Wilson. Thanks a lot darker stocks editor and head of the cash up on on Wall Street. I see Green on the screen. Dave risk on today. Down futures Right now they're up. 226 points arise about 7/10 of a percent and after Friday's selloff s and P futures right now they're up 26 points of about 6/10 of a percent in the early going.
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Year 27 1 in Grand Slam matches. Still no winner of all for the same year since Rod Labour did it more than 15 years ago, John stashed our Bloomberg Sports John. Thanks a lot. John 5 37 on Wall Street Here. It's time now for the tri state business report. For that we're joined by Bloomberg, said Corey. The Air train project to LaGuardia will be the world's most costly transit project for daily rider. That's, according to the watchdog group, Reinvent Albany, says the project will constantly $2 billion. Ahead of the Port Authority calls that claim ridiculous. Food delivery drivers are plagued by low pay and lack of basic protections, according to a report after expenses. The median hourly wage for delivery workers in New York City is $7.94 excluding tips, According to the Workers Justice Project and Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has taken to social Media to welcome businesses to the Constitution. State lobbying. It's work for Course and saying That it's family friendly policies allow more women to work. While he didn't explicitly called out Texas Lamont's comments left little to the imagination that your Bloomberg tries to business report I made Corey Thanks at FIVETHIRTYEIGHT on Wall Street. Bloomberg Radio is on the year from San Francisco to New York. London to Hong Kong, a second whether global news team for some of the top stories heard on our 300 affiliate radio stations. Around the world. I'm Karen Chase and for W. H s. I'll be reporting on a new credit card dot com. Survey that finds you'll start your holiday shopping early this year. I'm Caroline had company. Additional radio here in London were reporting on the booster jab plan expected from the government. I'm Gina, Sir. Very. And for WBBM in Chicago. I'm reporting that a German startup Just locked in a record slice of funding to make cheese without the help of cows. I mean, Kate and on KMOX in ST Louis, I'll be reporting on turbulence in the airline industry. Have. Those are some of the stories are 2700. Bloomberg journalists and analysts are working on this morning around the world. Okay again. Today we get earnings from tech giant Oracle. Let's get a look ahead from Bloomberg's Charlie Pellet. Oracle is expected to report fiscal first quarter earnings that reflect the company's seasonally weakest quarter, according to analysts surveyed by Bloomberg, The database software maker is poised to our 97 cents a share on revenue of $9.77 billion. Bloomberg intelligence analysts say Oracle's first quarter results could show constant currency sales growth of about 4 to 5%, driven by an acceleration in cloud demand and improving on premise spending. In New York. Charlie Pedal to Bloomberg Daybreak. Thanks, Charlie. Now some of the other stories we're watching for you this morning. The price of aluminum has hit $3000 a ton of London for the first time in 13 years. It's risen more than 15% in the last three weeks as demand for aluminum keeps rising. Meanwhile, Chinese outputs down And Kua big box site producer. Guinea has raised concerns over the supply of raw material used to make the metal And ahead of the cash open on Wall Street futures right now up 162 points S and.
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"grand slam" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"N Gravity Sanchez Grand Slam and two run home run, But the Yankees blew a late lead and lost again to Baltimore. Falling to the last place those 87 the Yanks, seven and nine against the owes this year, Baltimore 1 18 against Tampa Bay, New York wasted leads a 4 to 15 to 74. Losing for the sixth time in eight games on the heels of that 13 game winning streak, So adjust the third time ever. Major League Baseball has had as many as six Grand Slams, hitting one day. The record seven That was June 3rd of 2017. Here's the next offering, swung on hit a ton deep center field. For do Go looking up. This falls off the wall That'll clear Straw scores. Presarios scores Frand mill race with a fist pump. Two run double. And the Indians have scored three in the night and they now below it Open. And lead the Red Sox 9 to 5 1100 wt AM free meal. Ray is also went deep. Cleveland's franchise tying 19 straight game with a home run. They salvaged the finale their series at Fenway 11 5. Over the Covid Impacted Red Sox race went four for four Indians match their single season record of home a ring and consecutive games set in May of 2000 Boston, placing Nick Bavetta on that covid list. 10 players on the I L in a span of 10 days for the Boston Red Sox. What else? There's a swing a long fly ball on the Gest IQ drive. Playing field and a no Doubter into the 200. Level. Four Marcus Simeon, what a season it's been for him. SportsNet 5 90 defend Marcus Semien. His 35th home run. Robbie Ray struck out 10 pitching one hit ball into the seven. Blue Jays blank the 88 to nothing to finish the three game sweep. Boba shed four before scored.
Sekeres & Price Show
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"We're constipation for gardner. He's free to drop a deuce. Have you watched the show white lotus. You like it's fine. It wasn't like world changing but is good. Just do plays a role. Okay finally for me at reuters american tennis star certain williams's withdraw from next week's us open after she said they're torn hamstring and not completely healed ahead of the final grand slam of the year. We talked about how roger federal in a wave goodbye to everybody and next year's wimbledon Blake this is the full changing of the guard because needle is out of the us. Open as well yeah. It's the full turning over. Yeah greatest player if to some in women's tennis who has not won a grand slam since her be the most dominant test tennis player just period. Full stop chaz. Wanna grand slam Since the birth of her child somebody hot. Somebody did that for hot. Take your ago and was given a coolest grade. But it has proven true and fedor and doll have basically cleared the decks. Now for novak djokovic. Who was playing. Maybe his best. Tennis parties stepped up in a big way that women side although there are other contenders there's not quite as clear cut. This is going to be the. Us open where we're gonna see who rises up and who knows maybe you get a surprise winner on the men's or women's side. Maybe somebody upsets. Novak gets wide open may be chappel were felix that there is a path forward for the maybe bianca bianca was playing well. And then we could certainly draw. That conclusion. that's asks.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030
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"Grand Slam gave the Red Sox their fifth walk off win of the season with yesterday's 84 finish against the Rangers at Fenway. It's nice to win a series especially can awful All the tough series in New York and guys are grinding guys are frustrated a little bit, but any time you can win a series, it's starting off on the right foot kind of turning a Jack in New York. This is a good start, and hopefully we can continue that here this week. It's an exciting Alex Verdugo and Hunter. Renfroe also homered for Boston. Barnes blew a two run lead in the ninth to spoil what should have been a win for Nathan of Aldi Socks will host the Twins tonight. Celtics extended new wing Josh Richardson another year, which means he has two seasons on his deal with Boston Worth about $24 million Sad news from the hockey world. Former Bruin and Dorchester native Jimmy Hayes died. Suddenly he was just 31. He started Boston College than spent seven years in the NHL, including a pair with his hometown bees. He is survived by his wife, Kristin, and two young sons, Adam. Kaufman WBZ, Boston's news radio, and it's 5 43 back on those roads we go. We've got traffic and weather together. It's driven by the Subaru Retailers of New England. All wheel drive traffic on the threes. What do you got for us, Dave? I see delays continuing to grow south of the city gym. 24 north, heavy getting by route 4 95 because of a crash. But then the real jam is from Harrison Boulevard to the lower end of 93 almost 20 minutes to get through this from Brockton Jackknifed tractor trailer truck has the offer him to 93 south blocked off. Detours have been in place. 95 North is filling in approaching the lower end of 93, then 93 nature as well as the top of Route three, North and Braintree, both busy getting onto the expressway North. Expressway North has been a little heavy through the Braintree merge and then pockets of volume filling and beyond that between granted AB in Columbia Road and nearly expressed way report of a disabled vehicle on Morrissey Boulevard inbound before U Mass. North of the city. A little heavy 93 south around 4 95 in 1 33 Lever Connector is filling in on the way to downtown. Not terrible. Yet the same for the Chelsea side of the Tobin Bridge. David stuff Alino wbz traffic on the trees and a few scattered showers out there..
KOA 850 AM
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"Landy on Are you kidding me? The Padres pitcher they just brought up from El Paso, The San Diego can hit a Grand Slam fax user distrust everything. Now, I don't know about you, but I've heard this about 11 times so far, and I still get goose bumps. I got him right now. I want to play it again. It was so good. So Camarena, who had no home urgent 31 minor league plate appearances, was batting for himself with the Padres trailing 8 to 2 in the bottom of the fourth. He had relieved Yu Darvish and the Padres were down six. Nothing He gives up to home two runs and they go down eight. Nothing. The Padres end up scoring seven runs in the inning. Knocking out shares are they end up winning the game? 98 and Trent Grisham's walk off single in the bottom of the night now? Just to review what I told you. He's a 40th. Round pick. He spent 10 years in the minors. He is from San Diego. He hits a grand Slam off Max Scherzer in a seven run. Inning. In fact, you know what I think it deserves an encore. You're ready for this. Let's give it up for Daniel Camerino. Camarena Cabaret? No. Are you kidding me? The Padres picture that he's brought up from El Paso, San Diego again to the Grand Slam. Don't believe this. Back surgery services. She's good, so you know you can't make this stuff up. This is real life stuff. Here's a guy who's tighter than tight with his brother. In fact, they interview his brother who's in the stands, who's tearing up the whole families that I mean, think about this. You're from San Diego. You got drafted by the Yankees. You've been toiling around in the minor leagues forever. And then you get called up on Thursday from El Paso, Texas. Now let me tell you I've never been to El Paso. But I can't imagine what the weather it's like an El Paso, Texas on July the eighth It's got to be harder than hot. So the kid comes up. He comes in to kind of clean up. It's eight Nothing. What Max serves are the opponent. The opponent. Nobody. You know, it's max for eight runs. And Sure enough, uh, The kid from San Diego. Who they call, you know, um, done or silo is the announcer for the Padres, and he was with the Red Sox for a million years, and he is as good as there is one anyway. When San Diego was hitting all them Grand slams, he coined the phrase slam, Diego And sure enough, Daniel Camarena hits the Grand Slam and, uh, back to slam Diego now, so the Padres are on Cloud nine. And here come the Rockies tonight. Let's hope the Rockies can bring them back down to Earth. Alright, other things going on And don't forget. I've got a topic. That is off the charts today. And I'm going to share that with you in a minute. So the Bucks loss to the sons last night in the NBA Finals. They're now down to Zep can't get into it. For some reason, I haven't been able to get into the NBA Finals. You know the Nuggets for so good this year so exciting. The Joker was Refreshing M V P. First time we've ever had an M v P in Denver basketball and I don't know. I'm not a big sons guy, not a big Chris Paul guy after my little incident. I don't know if I told you this or not, but I was at the game with my son Game three of the Nuggets, sons and I happened to be sitting next to the Chris Paul family, and they were cheering like it was a home game, and they just lacked what I thought was Professionalism. When you go into another team's arena, it didn't help that the Nuggets never led that game. So that might have ticked me off, too. So Milwaukee, down to Zep to Phoenix Game three Sunday. The Wimbledon 10 men Semites are going on right now and I think Novak Djokovic. Will probably get to the finals will keep you updated on that. But more importantly, here's what's interesting. The Wimbledon men's finals are Sunday. Okay, We probably seven a.m. here. The Euro Cup final is also Sunday in London. So you've got Wimbledon Sunday morning in England and the Euro Cup final with England in it for the first time since 1966 on Sunday, So it's going to be a crazy day. Now I need to share a quick story with you about me and Wimbledon. The year is 1995. It is the week of June 27th. And I might have been the the following week. Anyway. I was there for a couple weeks. I happen to be in London because I'm going to see the Rolling Stones at Wembley Stadium. This is pre marriage. You know, pre witness protection program. Which I You know, lightly call it But I think if you get married, you have four kids and You know, you're not doing the same things you were doing when you weren't married. So kind of put in the witness protection program, you know, driving the van, other kids school or the kid's soccer game stuff like that, anyway. So I'm staying in a hotel in London getting ready for the rolling Stones. And guess who's at the same hotel for Wind? Bolton? Pete Sampras. So there I am on one side of the courtyard. And there's Pete Sampras on the other side. I'm like, Wow, how about that? And I was hoping I'd see Mick or Keith there, Charlie, you know, but yeah, that's my brush with the win. Milton never have been to the to a Tennis tournament, a major itself There's my story for you so Our topic for today. Now I know on the Logan and Lewis show, they talk a lot of music, right? Grant..
WNYC 93.9 FM
"grand slam" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"My It's my new friend. She's like. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. And we put the hat back on away. Put the coat back on. And my mom is dragging me down the streets of Detroit. The doors part open and she is looking around and she's dragging me to customer service. And meanwhile in Russian, she's telling me that I have stolen and I tell her Mom God doesn't understand English. He only understands Russian, and he thinks it's fine. That's where mom And my mom and very broken English. We had only been in America about a week and she didn't really know English before that is trying to tell the customer service representative that her five year old daughter who's like dressed in Fur coat and Detroit in the nineties stole this little snow White And this customer service representative is looking down on me and I'm looking up at him and I'm just saying, Mom, God doesn't understand this. He thinks it's fine. And so the customer service representative, terrified and unsure what to do it. Takes a little snow White sticks it back into my little pocket and says it's OK. And until my parents moved to Florida in September of last year, that little snow White was on a bookshelf in my bedroom, and my mom would occasionally turned to me and say. This reminds you of that you are safe and can steal. That was a lot of the norske Alana won the story slam that evening and went on to compete at the Chicago Grand Slam. Our next story is from Miley Malloy. Miley told the story of a special event We produced in New York to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Riverhead Books. The evening featured a bunch of different authors published by Riverhead, all telling stories about being in foreign and sometimes awkward situations..
ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"grand slam" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"To winning is 300 Grand Slam match the eighth time Aussie Open champ top seed Taking out meal. Oh, surrounded in the to advance to the quarterfinals Force. Edwin extends his unbeaten streak to a dozen straight against round and she's just the second player to reach 300 wins. After Roger Federer battled through stomach muscle injury and has Alexander's heir of up next Reed Williams, Naomi Osaka through to the Aussie Open quarters again. Williams in search of the 24th Grand Slam title. Meantime, 2021 NASCAR Cup series begins today with the Daytona 500 Chase. Elliott is the reigning in defending Cup series champs Denny Hamlin. It's to make history as the first driver ever to threepeat in the most prestigious race of the season. Tomorrow. Who spon stopping Gilbert Burns in the third round to retain is you have C welterweight championship Saturday night. He has won 13 straight fights. And despite being friends with Burns, he made one thing clear, post fight. This is my This is my cage. I'm the undisputed What's with champion forward for reason. This is my cage. I don't care who you are. When you step in here. There's no friends. You know, he said it himself. He put himself days at himself. I have something he wants, and he's coming to take it. So when you step into my cage We have to go to work. N BA Kevin Durant scored 20. It is returned to the Bay Area's The Nets blew out the Warriors Saturday night. James Harden 19 points 16 assists Kyrie Irving, acknowledging that Hardin is the team's point guard. Oh, by the way, Irving let him with 23 points..