Keyser

fun fact: I am weirdly good at Minesweeper

[Keyser @MichaelKeyser35]

FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST EXTEND SAL STEWART

[pat tobin @tastefactory]

Yep that’s them alright

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

This is an Elly De La Cruz fan account now. Bye.

[Keyser @MichaelKeyser35]

There’s gonna be some disgusting stat like “the reds are the first team to lose 3 straight games by the score 1-0 since the 1889 Cleveland Spiders”

[Thomas Carrieri @Thomas_Carrieri]

"You WILL NOT let a baseball team affect your daily emotions for the next 7 months."

[Jeremiah Smith @Jermiah_Smith1]

🤣🤣🤣🤣👎🏾

[Keyser @MichaelKeyser35]

@russwestbrick_ YOU BIG TEN BABBLING BIAS YOU!!!

[Keyser @MichaelKeyser35]

@WashedUpTweeter Euphoria. Ecstasy. Out of words to describe it

[Bengal @BengalYouTube]

I don't want to drop such a hot take on the timeline but I'm starting to think this Bryce Young cat went at #1 overall for a reason

[Cincinnati Reds @Reds]

Thank you, @JonathanIndia, for giving Reds Country 110% on and off the field. You've been our ROTY, Captain America and a phenomenal representative of the Reds organization. We wish you, Daniella and Adalina nothing but the best in Kansas City.

[Roger Federer @rogerfederer]

Vamos, @RafaelNadal!

As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.

Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.

I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.

And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more. 

OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.

We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.

I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.

I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.

And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.

Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.

Rafa that!

Best always, your fan, 

Roger

[Cincinnati Reds @Reds]

Charlie Hustle.
The Hit King.
Cincinnati's own,
Pete Rose.

[Dan Orlovsky @danorlovsky7]

Justin Fields

Don’t listen to all the dog trash that so many other said

Always believed in the kid. Always.
Too talented and too hard working to not be good.

Good for him.

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

I love that the list of places with top-tier pro tennis tournaments is like:
—Paris
—London
—New York
—Rome
—Palm Springs
—Shanghai
—suburban Cincinnati
—Monaco

[ClutchPoints @ClutchPoints]

Nike’s new Kevin Durant commercial narrated by Deion Sanders is FIRE 🔥

(via @Nike)

[Keyser @MichaelKeyser35]

Re-freakin-tweet…

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Novak Djokovic says tennis is endangered at the club level, ‘If we don’t do something about it globally, they’re gonna convert all the tennis clubs into paddle or pickleball’

“In terms of innovation in our sport… other than Slams, we have to figure out how to attract a young audience. Tennis on one hand is in a good place, but at the same time, when we look at Formula 1 for example and what they’ve done in terms of marketing, in terms of growth of the sport, in terms of the races around the world and how popular they are.. I think we need to do a better job on our respective tours. The grand slams are always gonna do well. But I think our tours need to do better. We are lucky to be very historic and a very global sport. But I think one of the studies that was done by PTPA 3 or 4 years ago showed that tennis is the 3rd or 4th most watched sport in the world along with cricket. Number 1 is football or soccer as you call it in the states. Second is basketball. Then it’s tennis and cricket. But tennis is number 9 or 10 on the list of all sports in terms of using its popularity, commercializing or capitalizing on that. I think there’s a huge space for growth. We’re quite fractioned as a sport. There are quite a bit of things for us to collectively look at and try to improve it. We need to grow the number of players that live from this sport. Very rarely do I see in the media that you guys are writing about the fact that you have only 350 to 400 players both men, women, singles, doubles across the board that live from this sport on this planet. That’s deeply concerning for me. Yes, we talk about the grand slam winner wins this or that. The focus is always on the grand prize but what about the base level? We’re still doing a very poor job there… very poor job. Tennis is a very global sport and it’s loved by millions of children that pick up a racquet that wanna play, but we don’t make it accessible. We don’t make it so affordable. Especially in countries like mine that doesn’t have a strong federation, that has Grand Slam or history or big budgets.. so I think collectively we all have to come together or create a new foundation, a corner stone of really what tennis is about.. which is the base level. The club level. Now we have paddle that is growing and emerging. People kind of have fun with it and say ‘Yeah but tennis is tennis. Tennis is the king or queen of all racquet sports.’ That’s true. But on a club level, tennis is endangered. If we don’t do something about it, globally or collectively, paddle, pickleball in the states, they’re gonna convert all the tennis clubs into paddle and pickleball. Because it’s more economical. You have one tennis court… you can build 3 paddle courts on one tennis court. Do the simple math. It’s just much more financially viable for the owner of the club to have those courts. These are some of the things I wanted to share. In the grand scheme of things, we need to address all these challenges and issues. Because they’ve been out there for a while. I don’t think we’ve been addressing it in the proper way.”

(via Wimbledon Press)

[Hoop Central @TheHoopCentral]

LeBron James and Bronny James are now teammates. 🙏

(📸 @ThrowbackHoops)

[Keyser @MichaelKeyser35]

@coderedpicks All except TNT - Inside the NBA has an elite cast

[Cincinnati Reds @Reds]

Cincinnati Red, Elly De La Cruz.