sir donald bradman is also unknown to me and will forever be unfamiliar. cricket is for its most ardent practitoners --- the powers that be of who enjoys its intricacies -- england, south africa, australia, sri lanka, india, pakistan, west indies, etc, --- is the dearest sport of all. but it's not a passion in my part of the world. it was not studied and synthesized in my physical education classes while we had to pass the practical exams in bowling and pingpong in the early years of university. cricket was not even covered in newspapers. then cable came along twenty years ago -- cnn and bbc sports shows covered cricket. i learned a few names; brian lara, nasser hussein, the waugh brothers, shane warne. that was about all. i know a little bit about the mechanics. who knows if i'll ever be well-versed.
then there's tiger woods and pete sampras. tiger woods latest victory in the arnold palmer invitationals signifies his scintillating form. that said, with federer at six and appearing in gilette adverts with woods and thierry henry, i still cling to the sampras restrospection. the pa
los verdes native was voted twenty-one places behind federer at 27 and lost to the swiss machine in the much-trumpeted event at MSG last week. i've never actually embraced the flashy rock star type like agassi, so sampras was it. but i'm not a fan of trophy wives either. yes, i'm still talking about sampras and woods. kind of weird, as woods considers federer his BFF.this week is the world figure skating championships in gothenburg, sweden. would it be the japanese in the women's, the chinese in the pairs, the europeans somewhere in between?
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