The Armchair Squid

Curtain Call Player: Yen-Hsun Lu Nation: Chinese Taipei Age: 26 Current Ranking: 82 Notable Conquests: Andy Roddick (5th seed, USA) Tour...

I am disappointed for the Japanese. They played brilliantly - just not well enough. Asia was well-represented this tournament. And I do t...

Curtain Call Player: Kaia Kanepi Nation: Estonia Age: 25 Current Ranking: 80 Notable Conquests: Samantha Stosur (6th seed, Australia) ...

The Dutch and the Brazilians won today: big surprises neither. Of course, now they have to play each other. I say Brazil. I'm 6 for 6 ...

Curtain Call Player: Daniel Brands Nation: Germany Age: 22 Current Ranking: 98 Notable Conquests: Nikolay Davydenko (7th seed, Russia) a...

I got an e-mail from My Dad this morning to say he'd actually watched some of the Ghana-USA match yesterday. We both admitted to pullin...

Week: June 20-27 Current standing in league: 2nd out of 12 My Player of the Week: Rickie Weeks (second baseman, Brewers) with 2 ho...