Scott Swindler

[Scott Swindler @scottswindler]

Doubles champs!

[Andover Athletics @AHSTrojanAthlet]

AVCTL Div 2 Champions! Sending Coach Cross out with his last league title! Singles: Andrew Chan 1st place, Sean Davis 5th place. Doubles: Will Rather/Blake Swindler 1st place, Ian Brown/Jack Powell 2nd place.

[Wichita State Women's Tennis @GoShockersWTEN]

We are 🅸🅽

We have earned our first bid to the NCAA Tournament since 2018!

See you in Norman! 📍

#FearTheWheat🌾

[Scott Swindler @scottswindler]

@EvanWessel It was a golden era for Shocker hoops for sure.

[Scott Swindler @scottswindler]

League champs in both varsity and JV 🎾🔥

[Andover Athletics @AHSTrojanAthlet]

Also, JV league: Ian Brown 1st, Zach Pai 4th, Will Rather/ Blake Swindler-1st, Caleb Homan/ Hunter Martin - 3rd. Team JV league champs

[Scott Swindler @scottswindler]

@ChuckChaneyBCTG @OleQB0814 #clutch

[Scott Swindler @scottswindler]

#fearthewheat

[Wichita State Men's Basketball @GoShockersMBB]

HOLY QUINCY BALLARD 😱

#SCTop10 | 📺 ESPN2

[Scott Swindler @scottswindler]

@LaMarsDonuts Sour cream 🤤

[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

[Scott Swindler @scottswindler]

@Stickstostocks @BarstoolShocks My first Valentine’s Day with my wife (then girlfriend) was that game…

[Scott Swindler @scottswindler]

@RonBaker31 You don’t like Andover in 5A with 3 D1 starters?

[Scott Swindler @scottswindler]

@GleanerCombines Hello. Would anyone on your team know the age of this? Or if there is a museum we could donate it to? Located in Wichita, KS.

[Scott Swindler @scottswindler]

@tayloreldridge Impressive, but he is no Red Panda

[Scott Swindler @scottswindler]

@DerekGrandfield @jimrome @Commanders That looks like “after a big Thanksgiving meal”version of Rome

[Taylor Eldridge @tayloreldridge]

Everyone's talking about that crazy back-door alley-oop K-State ran in overtime last night to beat Michigan State — was it spontaneous or was it scripted?

Here's my breakdown on why I think this is a Jerome Tang special and why the play worked against Michigan State's defense 🔊

[Scott Swindler @scottswindler]

@tayloreldridge Great article. Like some other fans I have lost some enthusiasm for the Shockers recently but I would like to give IB one more year. He is a great guy and I think he deserves that time to see if he becomes a great coach.

[Scott Swindler @scottswindler]

@ESPNPlusHelp @KoreyTorg I have an ESPNU subscription through DIRECTV and an ESPN+ subscription and I can’t access the game either. It says “the event has not started”. I use the app all time and am very knowledgeable with it.

[Scott Swindler @scottswindler]

Well said…

[Duke Women’s Basketball @DukeWBB]

For anyone who needs to hear this today…

Handle hard better.

[Scott Swindler @scottswindler]

@tayloreldridge @thetournament @AfterShocksTBT Do you know what was going on between Bush and the Mean Green players after the game?

[Scott Swindler @scottswindler]

@BleacherReport @mcten When he was at Wichita State I called him “The Slim Reave-per”