Archive for August, 2009
Rainy New York night
NEW YORK – A cool gray sky greeted 35-or-so thousand parishioners as another US Open arrived yesterday. But Jada Ellie Lynch’s old lady – a sunny-plus personality — was out there sweeping her favorite court and making people feel good in the gloom. Sweeping not with a broom, which she does as a housewife – but with a tennis racket again. continue reading »
August 31 2009 | US Open | 1 Comment »
St. Patrick's Cathedral
NEW YORK – Two hands for beginners?
Absolutely, says a Swiss gentleman named Roger Federer, who has dropped by Flushing Meadows intending to renew his long-term lease on the US tennis title.
Both hands on the backhand? No. Roger is a slick purist whose thunderbolts flow from either side with merely the right hand involved. But, yes, two hands on the two diapers with which he is entrusted to deal with his newly arrived twin daughters, Charlene and Myra. Wife Mirka approves, but cautions, No drop shots, please, whenever he picks them up. continue reading »
August 30 2009 | US Open | 3 Comments »
Sculpture on a terrace of the Metropolitan Opera House
Call me Bud C. That’s Bud the Curmudgeon.
You can also call me grouchy, grumpy and cantankerous, too. That’s OK because it’s the way I feel when running up against the confusing, careless corruption of tennis language.
What I have in mind is the game’s most precious and rarest accomplishment: the Grand Slam. It’s the quintessential quadrilateral, a gem so luminous and virtually out of reach that it has been achieved merely six times since the origin 71 years ago. But it hurts, and I shed curmudgeonly tears at the way the Slam is treated by most print and TV journalists, as well as numerous players and officials who ought to know better. continue reading »
August 29 2009 | Misc. Articles | 3 Comments »
Our beautiful dove balloon landing next to a farmer's field in Buhler
Bud and I took part in a marvelous six day adventure, ballooning in Switzerland in mid June 2009. We were fortunate to join Sibby and Bob Brasler in an auction item to benefit the Arthur Ashe Junior Tennis Program in Philadelphia. We celebrated Sibby’s birthday on the 16th of June and Bud’s 80th on the 17th of June!!! Our masterful pilot, Stan Hess, and his “chaser” wife, Mary, led us on our adventure. Joining us as well, Kim and Neal Blackwell, helping Stan and Mary.
This gallery show our flights around the town of Appenzell in northeastern Switzerland, with a side visit to Heiden, near Lake Constance where we enjoyed a lovely al fresco lunch with fabulous photographer Patrick Loertscher, his wife, Monica and son, Jan. continue reading »
August 07 2009 | Photos | No Comments »
