Nightshift Sports: Embed from Getty Images “You get a shiver in the dark It’s raining in the park but meantime South of the river you stop and you hold everything A band is blowing Dixie double four time You feel alright when you hear that music ring Well, now you step inside but you …
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Close Calls: How The Hawk Eye System Perfects Tennis Line Calls
Embed from Getty Images Nightshift Sports: Editors Note: This piece was originally produced in 2016, to run with coverage of that year’s Wimbledon. We’re just about at mid-point in the tournament and since some really, really big matches are coming up, it seems like the right time to re-post it because in the past …
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Double Fault
Paying Attention: It happened. Or It could have happened. Or it’s going to happen. There’s a major story in the world of tennis that involves match fixing and it’s not a good thing. The essense of sport–especially professional sport–is fair and real competition and to have even a hint that results could be fixed in …
String Theory
Press Clippings. It’s U.S. Open time, we’re headed past the quarters and into the Semis and the level of play is rising with every shot. This is when major tennis gets very, very serious. There could not possibly be a better time to point you to one of very best pieces on Tennis (with a capital T), …
How to Watch Wimbledon
Paying Attention. The annual grass court championships for the known world (“The Championships, Wimbledon”) are now closing in on the women’s and men’s finals on Saturday and Sunday. If you haven’t already been dialed in, it gets very serious now. Here is a ClickPak of sources of information, video, and news about the …