MySports Today

I’ve never been a big Michael Jordan fan.  Spending time in the city of Chicago as a New York Knicks fan since 1994 always tainted me.  Watching Jordan and the Bulls beat my Knicks countless times during the 1990’s and enduring the Bulls denying Patrick Ewing and the Knicks from winning one NBA title was always so painful for  me.  I always felt alone in my criticisms of Jordan, especially here in Chicago.  In short – Jordan is a cry baby.  He always whined when he lost and he never fully appreciated the role his teammates played in bringing 6 championships to the city of Chicago, even going to extreme lengths to get into fights with teammates during practices.  Off the court, Jordan was even worse – Jordan was a blatant womanizer who ran up big gambling debts and thought he could play major league baseball because he was such a GREAT athlete. Hah!  As an NBA exec, it has gotten even worse for Jordan.  We’ve already seen the best of Jordan (back in the 1990’s) and anything he tries to accomplish now will pale in comparison.  While I probably do consider Jordan the “Greatest NBA Player of All-Time”, I truly hope he continues to fail in his future NBA endeavors.

Now my real reason for the post on Jordan – I finally found a great article by Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski.  He sees Jordan through the same glasses that I do, and it makes me feel less alone in the world.  Thank you Adrian – you are my hero.  As Jordan put it over the weekend, “There will never be another Michael Jordan.”  And I say “Thank God to that.”  Cheers MJ…

Wow – talk about an upset.  Juan Martin del Potro (the #6 seed) upset #1 seed Roger Federer in 5 sets to claim the 2009 U.S. Open Men’s Tennis Championship.  Unbelievable – one of the greatest tennis upsets of all time.

Federer had won 5 straight US Open titles in Flushing Meadows and a string of 40 straight matches.  Federer – who owns the most Grand Slam titles of any player in tennis history – was just 2 points away from the match in the 4th set.  But Federer lost control of his serve and del Potro continued to rack up forehand winner after forehand winner – 37 total – en route to the 5-set upset.  Del Potro battled back to win the 4th set tie-breaker 7-6 (7-4) and then cruised through the 5th set, winning easily 6-2.  Beating Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals was a great accomplishment, but finishing it off with a win over the best player in tennis was a dream come true.  Del Potro had this to say about the win – “When I would have a dream, it was to win the U.S. Open, and the other one is to be like Roger.  One is done.”

Roger Federer will likely remain the #1 seed for the rest of the 2009 tennis season, but we might have to add a 3rd name to the top 3 players in tennis today – Federer, Rafael Nadal & del Potro…