Jeff D.

Have literally never seen Jess Pegula play better than in that second set… and she still lost. That’s how good Elena Rybakina is this year.

She needs to go back to playing with heavy spin first before power. Trust that she can defend her way out of trouble, the way she won Beijing in 2023. Defending, staying patient, high margin aggression.

Trying to homogenize her game to be like Sabalenka/Rybakina when it’s just not built like that.

And losing divisional matchups.

All this top-spun, high-margin shotmaking from Iga today... where hath you been?

“These kids” also applying to Jannik and Amanda 💀

Criminal that these matches were scheduled for the exact same time.

The actual pearl clutch at the end is hysterical.

Ottawa “Glass Shoulders” Senators 🪦

'Survivor' Is Better When Everyone Gets A Little Silly With It I remember individual seasons of Survivor by and for their “mood.” This is a nebulous bit of recall, because “mood” (or “vibe,” if you will) is both subjective and insufficient; distilling roughly…

‘Survivor’ is better when everyone gets a little silly with it:

This is so gag worthy of her to say, love it.

He did famously score our only goal though

*thinks about our 2030 blue line featuring peaking Cale Makar and Matthew Schaeffer*

At least our captain still has a better hairline.

Jake Sanderson has an Olympic gold and that’s really the only positive I can take away from this. Brutal.

Olympic Travis Hamonic

Long track always the best for me, but figure skating delivered this year (lots of new young stars) and was heavily locked into the curling.

Brick has been incredible for me. Can turn on the app block/allow lists on any schedule you like and can only unlock with the brick key - leave it somewhere just inconveniently far away enough.

This is probably the best curling match I’ve ever seen? Great drama and skill.

Also praying my arms look like all of Team Canada’s when I’m in my 40s.

The way I’ve slowly locked in to curling after two weeks of remembering all the rules and strategies.

Rooting for Rachel Homan hard, has been so snakebitten at the games and keeps making magic to claw her way back into contention.

Out at the Open An interview with João Lucas Reis da Silva, who made history as the first openly gay man to play the Australian Open.

João Lucas Reis da Silva warming up now on court at ATP 500 Rio de Janeiro, where he’s about to make history as the first ever openly gay fella to play a tour-level main draw singles match.

Reis faces Yannick Hanfmann.

An interview we did in Melbourne:

www.benrothenberg.com/p/gay-tennis...

Hockey* golds

Pretty rough Olympics for Team Canada so far with some brutal luck - but ultimately you make your own luck in sports.

A pair of golds might salvage things… barely. 😮‍💨

Okay, now I hate it.

Short track speed skating is so bonkers. Margin for error is razor thin and I feel like every other race has some sort of dramatic crash out??

(I love it.)

Wouldn’t mind watching this WTA Finals line up eight months from now.

The Top Ten For Vicky Mboko - The Second Serve Vicky Mboko has more tools than a NASCAR pit crew.

@girinathan.bsky.social on freshly minted Top Tenner Vicky Mboko

www.thesecondserve.com/the-top-ten-...

Wozniacki/Azarenka?

Some bad luck on a couple of those silvers earlier today but it has been a bit shocking seeing us do so poorly at a Winter Olympics... Though if we can grab hockey golds it's all worth it, I guess.

Québec really carrying Canada at these Olympics. Gonna need the other provinces to step up but huge s/o to the francophone gene pool and provincial funding. ⚜️

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad