Baseball may have caused Stephen King to start reading during a game, but at least it didn’t put him to sleep. That’s more than I can say for this Spaniard who was so bored he passed out during the Stanislas Wawrinka/Feliciano Lopez 3rd round match of the Madrid Masters. Check out this particularly enthusiastic fan:

When they flipped to him a second time in the match, he was asleep again! Makes you wonder what the guy was even doing at the match if he had no interest or couldn’t stay awake. Homeboy even had the headnod going he was so passed out!

Serena Williams has won two U.S. Open titles in her career, as well as six other majors. She’s a dominant force in the sport, and seems to play well on hard courts like those in Melbourne and New York. And according to Serena, she probably could have won more at Flushing:

“One year I really ran into a lot of bad luck where I got the worst calls possible. Honestly, I couldn’t even hit a shot because I was so nervous they would call every ball out. That really wasn’t my fault. I probably would have won that year, and I was gonna win that year. Unfortunately it didn’t work out.”

Man, do you hear Raiders still bitching about the tuck rule loss to the Pats, or Miami players about losing to Ohio State? I really haven’t too much. Perhaps just another example of Serena being a poor sport. Or maybe the reporter was just being vindictive towards Serena. Did her comments necessitate the headline it generated? Maybe not — but it certainly is the one that piques the most interest.

I’ve been a fan of Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic for the past few years. I really admired his strong all-around game, but then he started to score bonus points with his hilarious impressions and rumored fling with Maria Sharapova. While I’d be all over (literally) fellow Serbian Ana Ivanovic if I were Djokovic, Jimmy Traina at SI points out that he’s doing just fine, as he’s rumored to be dating Olympian hottie Leryn Franco. Not bad. Jimmy also posted another great video of Djokovic’s excellent impressions of fellow tennis players. If we’re lucky enough, he might put those impressions on display this week at the U.S. Open. Check it:

I’m not sure who the first person was, but I think it was Lleyton Hewitt. After that, the Andy Roddick, Andre Agassi, Rafael Nadal, Maria Sharapova, and Roger Federer. This guy’s hilarious. If he were American, I think he’d be good enough to renew interest in the sport in the U.S. — he’s that colorful.

Honestly people, do we really have to stoop this low? What’s worse, the fact that 8-year-old Anastasiya Korzh was kicked out of a tennis tournament for being hooked up to an earpiece while playing so her father could talk to her, or the fact that the dad tried to cover the whole thing up? Ready for a wild one? Here goes nothing:

Players in the under-10 grade are supposed to keep their own score and referee their own games but [the father] said he turned to technology on the third day of the tournament after noticing a number of suspicious calls and realising his daughter was having trouble keeping score.

“It was obvious girls were taking advantage of Ana because she was playing for the first time,” he said.
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It was discovered the girl had a receiver similar to a rugby referee’s earpiece with a box at the base of the back and a cord under the shirt up to the earpiece and headband.

What are we, training her for a James Bond movie? Who the eff resorts to earpieces to communicate? This is worse than Sharapova and her dad. Like the tournament organizers said — if you can’t keep score, you shouldn’t be playing. Simple as that. And just how was that little squirt able to run around with a box attached to her head? Look how small she is — the device probably weighed more than she does.

Last I wrote about Anna K. here at LBS, it was to pass along sad rumors that the hot lady was getting engaged. Now that was a sore subject for me, so it’s about time we moved onto something that can bring a smile to all of our faces — Anna’s breasts. Sports by Brooks shares some recent photos of Ms. Kournikova suggesting she might have had her chest surgically enhanced. Check it out:

Now if you ask me, there’s no question about it — she got some work done. But at the same fashion show where that picture was taken, there was also another one that would corroborate Anna’s claims she’s never had any work done. Judge for yourself

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And I thought it was weird when Kansas State freshman guard Bill Walker decided to use the sidelines of a college basketball floor as a urinal. I think this might trump what Walker did. Check out tennis player Jelena Jankovic getting pretty slick during a side change:

OK, maybe Walker’s was slightly more gross. Still, this is pretty strange. And how did the photogs not get some upskirt shots??? Via With Leather, surprise, surprise.