Brillig

Last year I chose to skip the US Open tennis qualifying, which I enjoy quite a bit, in order to go to Eurocon and see Dublin after the 2014 ...

So the US Open has announced that the gates are going to open a half hour earlier. Why? Because, per my last post, their useless extra s...

It's a really busy week, and I have started work on some detailed blog post about my annual (or as annual as I can make it) trek to the ...

So it's been an interesting last ten days or so! For the first ten years of JABberwocky, I worked alone in my apartment, it's neve...

So back in 2010 I spoke quite excitedly about a young Polish tennis player, Jerzy Janowicz, whom I'd watched in the US Open qualifying....

This wasn't the best year I've had at the US Open. As an example, in 2010 I enjoyed seeing: Bernard Tomic, an Australian with a goo...

So on the tennis-related front, the #6 seed Robin Soderling withdrew from the US Open with an undisclosed illness, and his spot in the draw ...

So I think I did OK in judging the chances of the US Open qualifiers to play on Day One. Jaziri won his first round match, which I'd su...

So the qualifying has concluded, and the draw has been filled out. Let's look selectively at what the qualifiers face in the days ahead...

And to close... The second set of the Pospisil match was anything but routine. It was one of the longest sets of tennis I've ever seen...

To Finish Well, what a delightful final full match of the day. Donskoy won the first set 6-1, blink of an eye, thought we were headed for ...

To Close Michon loses to Ram in a tight first set and a not so tight second. Not many weapons. Piña colada ice, Thai dinner. 8:50 Mich...

& to close... Romboli lost the second set 6-1 as well. Odd thing is, I think the match was closer than the score line in this case. I...

So as we all gear up for the excitement of this evening's Bowl Selection Special... No, the BCS isn't fair, it's rigged against ...

So there's this ad by Lindor, the people that make those wonderful little truffle balls that you can buy at the Borders checkouts, or wi...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/sports/tennis/02harrison.html?ref=todayspaper I don't think it was such a big upset, but now, can he m...

The main draw To summarize the quallies a little...  the second day of quallies ended up being ended by rain just like the first, but more f...

On my first post about this year's Open qualifying, I had asked if Ryan Harrison could actually play, which is never always eager to det...