Childhood = Curtains and upholstery?

Who will win the title this weekend?

Clock and US tennis.

Which programming would you rather watch:

-The league geared to your schedule meaning most of the games will start when you are done with your work and are parked on your Lazy-Boy late evening OR

-The tour with over 70 percent of the programming timed when the clock strikes midnight in your time zone.

Unless you are a die-hard fan or a die-hard lunatic why would you even consider the latter considering you have a living to make the next freaking day.

And if it took a Connors, McEnroe, Sampras and Agassi to force people to wake up in the middle of the night, what’s on the tour today to even make you look at the scores now?

If three out of four Slams are beyond your comfort zone, why even bother when you have other sports hitting your sweet time spot on a daily basis.

Solution: Move the schedule to suit the country or continent you want to revive as tennis fan base. That means that other three Slams will be played at night local time until the US market revives. Locals are already hooked so you have them by the balls – they are not going anywhere.

Why not constantly look for new balls until the world is conquered?

What does your choice of sport say about you?

I mean, there are more than obvious differences in the following different sports attract.

In the US, among the top three sports – Football, Basketball and Baseball – the low lives probably are seen in most numbers at Basketball. But then the court-side seats there are a virtual who’s who of the movers and shakers from Hollywood to other sports to you name it.

But overall – comparatively – Basketball still has to be the biggest magnet of rowdies and low lives.

On the other hand, typically a tennis fan is much more educated, sane, cultured and resourceful financially. With the sprinkling of freaking toddlers here that sane theory goes out the window once and for all.

Or is it the female gender participation in this exercise that softens the picture or at least balances the saw held down by hooligans? I mean, is it because more females are attracted to tennis that the sport is being saved from being billed as another ‘soccer fiasco’?

Sure there are females hooked on to the NBA but I don’t think they can match the crowd at a tennis arena percentagewise, don’t you think?

Or does it all have to do with how sever the sport is regarding contact? The more chronic it gets, the more hooligans it attracts. Boxing or MMA?

Nevertheless, there are visible traits that make you like or dislike a certain sport.

How about the GOAT theory? Does an emergence of a genius in any discipline profoundly effect the make up of the crowd? Maybe. But wouldn’t that be just a momentary blip only to slip back to it’s roots eventually? Woods, Federer?

Additionally the players’ lives are another reflection of who they are appealing to. There’s hardly a player in the NFL who hasn’t been to the prison. They are either in there, on their way in or on their way out.

Look at NBA. Despite commissioner’s over the top efforts to clean up the image by forcing players to wear suits on the sidelines to eliminating all rap paraphernalia to whatever, there appears to be no end to the crap.

Is it then the race? Are sports dominated by black / white / brown/ yellow athletes more likely to be in trouble?

While your country and upbringing has lot to do with which sport gets grandfathered into your DNA there appears a trail that in broad sense say a lot about who you are based on which sport you root for.

Photos.

WOW!!! The Exorcist star has grown up.

Shouldn’t she have given up on that color with ‘commando strips’ all over the net? Or is she trying to say something?

Has the unisex tour begun already?

How can you freaking have that much water on the freaking court? What kind of genius plumbing is that?

Serena dressed-up in traditional regalia. From M. Thanks.

M

Quote from Getty:

“World number one tennis champion Serena Williams laughs on February 23, 2010 as she is dressed-up in traditional regalia by women from the Kamba tribe in the Wee village, Makueni district, some 300 kilometers southeast of Nairobi, to inaugurate a school she funded. The school, built in collaboration with another charity ‘Build African Schools’ is her second action in the eastern Kenya region since 2008. AFP PHOTO / Tony KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)”

More of / on Nadal-Shakira video. From Adrian. Thanks.

ADRIAN

OK, given that Nadal is not an actor, Xisca CANNOT be fine with and used to seeing her boyfriend doing these sorts of scenes with someone as hot as Shakira!! You can expect that from Roddick with Brooklyn, but I feel for the girl… this thing between Shak and Nadal looks VERY real…!! jaja

This is the whole video:

http://new.music.yahoo.com/videos/shakira/gypsy–218648338

Tsunami alert.

DEE

There is a Tsunami warning! be safe!I heard there was one in south Japan as well. Chieko san , Hope you are OK
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/

M

Chile Earthquake 1000 Times More Powerful Than Haiti Quake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouncyjB4Ips&feature=player_embedded

*abrazos besos oraciones*