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[Christopher Clarey 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 @christophclarey]

Andy Roddick on his podcast Served about the 23-year drought for the American men in Grand Slam singles tournaments:

“One, at this point I hate talking about it. Two, I hate that other players have to talk about it. Three, I hate that, like, Johnny Mac has to talk about it. For X&%$’s sake, he won a lot. I won one. It just happened to be the last one....I just need to say, and I get asked about it all the time. I’m not the ’72 Dolphins. I don’t pop Champagne when the perfect season is gone. I want this so much, probably more than anyone outside the people who are going to end up winning it. And also the thing that never gets said, which to me is lazy: I was a &%$*ing part of it for 10 years, the streak, and I didn’t win again. I could have won in ’09 and it would be a lot less dramatic.”

https://t.co/tBJ4tRyQUQ

#getty #usopen #tennis

[BucciOT.Com @Buccigross]

Barry was my best friend at ESPN. A big brother figure of rock solid values. I am shook to my core. Barry gave his life to hockey and some of his ESPN family, like me, learned of his shocking death today while at a hockey rink in Las Vegas preparing for the upcoming season. Chilling and fitting--the rink was Barry's home. A more beloved ESPN institution there has not been. We love you, Barry. Forever.

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

Andy Roddick’s Wimbledon analysis proves it’s time for the McEnroe era at ESPN to end https://t.co/DOpOX1TK2L

[Philadelphia Inquirer Sports @phillysport]

Terry Thompson lost $1.5 million on bets he placed with FanDuel.

The company gave him VIP treatment — including a personalized video message from the Phillies' Bryce Harper.

[José Morgado @josemorgado]

Not the first time De Minaur admits that he is going through a lot mentally but today he had a couple of strong quotes.

"I'm broken inside. That's the reality. You invest so many hours into this job and so many years to have moments like these. Not being able to live up to it is truly heartbreaking. It's very hard.

I won't be playing a tournament for a while. But again, they keep piling up. The goals, the belief, the dreams you have start fading away or feeling a little bit further out of reach than they once were. I feel like a couple of years ago I was definitely closer. Now I just feel like I'm drifting a little further away from those dreams. It's getting harder and harder. That's the reality."

[Joon Lee @joonlee]

To watch the full video on how private equity is changing sports (and more specifically the Boston Celtics) https://t.co/KR2wZ7pKGQ

[Mina Kimes @minakimes]

This would be true if the purpose of reading was purely utilitarian. No one is looking at maps for anything other than information; people read for a wide variety of purposes, many of which are contingent on the idea that original thought is involved.

[notyourcountryclub @showfortennis]

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[Matt Hayes @MattHayesCFB]

Texas A&M coach Mike Elko on coaches pushing for 24-team CFP: "None of us are answering for the good of the sport, we're answering for the good our ourselves."

[SK @Djoko_UTD]

Novak Djokovic and Gael Monfils 🥹❤️

2002 👦👦 2026 👑🐐

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Within one 24 hour period, Trump:

- got out of a $100 million IRS fine
- secured "immunity" from all future tax investigations for his family and friends
- created a $1.8 billion slush fund for lawbreaking supporters
- was reported for likely insider trading worth nearly $1 billion

All of the obvious things to say about this are true. It's bad. Nobody even tries to defend it. The closest thing to a defense you get is something about how "but Democrats suck" and "woke was also bad," which is not a defense, but rather a kind of moral blank check made out to the administration to give them the right to do anything.

But what I'm most curious about is whether this sort of lurid corruption creates a countermovement that successfully returns government to rule of law or whether it's establishing a norm of executive imperialism that every future administration will use to achieve its ends, which can always be justified by the moral blank check of "the other side is worse, so let us do whatever we want."

[Elina Monfils @ElinaSvitolina]

I wrote a letter to my daughter, about her dad the magician, before his last show in Paris @PlayersTribune https://t.co/v054c7iTvD

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Multiple ICE warehouses were sold by people in Trump's circle who were sitting on the properties and losing money.

We dug into it, and found that some properties were bought by the feds for 10x their list price.

It's a new level of corruption — and you're paying for it.

[Memes @PardonMyMeme]

New number one sports podcast just dropped