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Friday, August 15, 2008

McEnroe Still Has It


He hasn't lost his touch. John McEnroe, at the tender age of 49, managed to get himself tossed from the over-30s Hall of Fame Champions Cup in Rhode Island on Thursday.

Volatile as ever, McEnroe got tossed from his opening match at the over-30s Hall of Fame Champions Cup on Thursday for a new kind of triple fault: Cursing, arguing with the chair umpire and making an obscene gesture at fans.

While arguing a line call, McEnroe was given a code violation warning for uttering an obscenity. When he kept up his tirade against chair umpire Ray Brodeur, he drew two abuse of official penalties.

As the argument progressed, fans at the International Hall of Fame court started yelling at McEnroe, telling him to resume play. McEnroe responded with his obscene gesture and was thrown out.

And he wasn't even losing, he was leading 6-3, 2-4 before he went apeshit.

I leave you with the best meltdown ever:

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

John McEnroe Thinks You Are Crazy


The dude wacking himself in the above video is Mikhail Youzhny in a match against Spain's Nicolas Almagro at the Sony Ericsson Open.

Youzhny got upset after giving up a point on an unforced error so he did what any sensible person would do ... knocked some sense into himself.

I love how the Spaniard goes over and laughs at the silliness of the whole mess, but if I were Almagro I would have been pissed that Youzhny got time to think about the match in a break he set up with his head.

Youzhny ended up coming back in the match and winning, and could only imagine what he would have done to himself had he lost.

He probably would have enlisted the help of fellow Russian Maria Sharapova to hit tennis balls at his own set for hours on end.

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Monday, November 5, 2007

What The Hell? (Gross Edition)


Weird sports-related stories are always fun to find, and sometimes they gross you out, make you laugh, or just say to yourself, "what the f**k?".

This story comes from NC State and two teammates from the tennis team.

A 19-year-old tennis player, Dejon Bivens, attended an off-campus party at one of his teammate's apartments last weekend. One of his teammates went to bed at 3 a.m., only to be woken up two hours later from Bivens performing oral sex on him.

Bivens has been charged with a sex crime.
None of the tennis team members or the coach will comment on the incident though they know about the charges against Bivens.

N.C. State Athletics officials said they can't comment on the matter because of privacy laws, but as of now, Bivens' status with the team has not changed.

This story is bizarre, gross, and creepy at the same time. I told my friend about this story on Saturday while we were enjoying some post-skateboarding nourishment, and had this to say to me: "Why did you just tell me that story? That is nasty."

I really do not have more to add. This is just a head-shaker story. I would comment on what I would have done had I gotten that wake-up call, but do not even want to think about that.

*The picture has nothing to do with the story, but found it when I googled "wtf" and spent the next 20 minutes looking at the images that came up. You should try it, very entertaining. I then added my photoshop skills for you all to enjoy.*

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