CBS Sunday Morning Power Rankings

Task update: My house is still not clean (a Sisyphean task), but I'm on roughly page 150 of Dune . Before we get to the SUNDAY MORNING POWER RANKINGS. TENNIS FASHION POWER RANKINGS I'm not so much interested in who wore it best as opposed to which athletic clothing brand has the best line. Tennis is nothing if not the Project Runway of sports. I suppose you could argue for the NBA being the more fashion forward sport , but in tennis, the arena of competition also serves as the runway. I also enjoy the absurdity of a sport that collectively decides that 1994 was the definitive year for fashion. No sport has ever embraced bright neon quite like tennis. 1) Fila Bjorn Borg's 1976 Wimbledon outfit: It's pretty much defined classic tennis fashion for all time. After dabbling in wild patterns and tie dye during pandemic the times, Fila's US Open 2021 line was a return to clean and simple. And it looked pretty good on pretty much everyone who wore it. Couple of Fila gal...

In order to try and catch up with life and because this is only a hobby, I really am going to try and keep posts short for the time being. Reasons being: I'm getting backlogged at work with no end in sight for a few months I really need to properly cleaning my house/car/etc. for the first time in months, i.e. fall cleaning. I'm trying to reread Dune . I'm excited to try and see the movie in theaters, but I read it about well over 20 years ago. I can remember liking but as far as the story only remember the broad strokes and I would like for it to be somewhat fresh. Although I've been starting to feel sort of run down in recent weeks, I'd still like to keep up with my regular running and biking. I'm trying to make more time to hang out with friends. Maybe I should take a few days off, a fall break if you will, to catch back up with life, but that goes directly against point #1. I know I spend way too much time discussing tennis for what is ostensibly a recap blog...

A list of tennis players Bjorn Borg John McEnroe Boris Becker Jennifer Capriati Andre Agassi Martina Hingis Kim Clijsters Justine Henin Mardy Fish Jelena Dokic Mirjana Lucic Serena Williams* Ashleigh Barty Bernard Tomic Nick Kyrgios If you are a reasonable tennis fan, or even just a casual observer, you can probably guess the commonality amongst this grouping. They all walked away from tennis, to varying degrees, when they were at or withing shouting distance of the top of the sport. That is, they left, or started minimizing their participation in the sport at a point in time in which they were or should have been peaking. * The inclusion of Serena Williams (and probably Venus too) is debatable. But Serena has essentially played only 10 tournaments a year for more than a decade, taking ample time away from the sport to pursue her other interests, like making music videos with her friend Beyoncé . Remember when she won the 2007 Australian Open while starting the year ranked 88? She'...

The CBS SUNDAY MORNING POWER RANKINGS The September 5, 2001 edition of Sunday Morning was an emotional roller coaster. There were stories that made me laugh and smile and stories that made me cry. Alright, I'm not really much of a crier. But things got a little dusty. 1) Martha Tiechner 2) John Dickerson We'll start with the stories that made me cry. If you want a way to memorialize the 20th anniversary of the 9/11, Martha Teichner's and John Dickerson's segments are reflective and somber as befits the occasion. It's hard reliving that day, rewatching the footage of a plane smashing into the World Trade Center, even from someone who experienced it from afar. I'm not sure this is what the mean when they say, "Never forget," about 9/11, but here is my recollection of the day: (For what it's worth, I remember all the names of everyone in this story, but I'm not going to use them despite it lending extra verisimilitude because I don't know ...