Scoop on tennis

[Cosmo]

Really?

I mean ...

Really?

Here's all you need to read. Wrap your mind around this graf:

To say Andy Roddick is overrated might be just short of cruel -- but also as accurate as hitting the 25-point red circle of the board that surrounds the 50-point black bull's-eye in darts. On three successive throws.

And the rest:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=jackson/060828

Mamma mia.

 

[BigDog]

Roddick has a Slam and is ****ing Sharapova.

Scoop just sucks.

Game, set, match, Mr. Roddick.

 

[John]

Roddick might be overhyped, but I wouldn't say he is overrated.

Since most people recognize that there's Federer, Nadal and everyone else a decent ways back, I don't think anyone is really overrated right now.

 

[Ace]

That's some purty writin', right there.

But when I think tennis, I think Scoop Jackson.

 

[Columbo]

Roddick might be overhyped, but I wouldn't say he is overrated.

Since most people recognize that there's Federer, Nadal and everyone else a decent ways back, I don't think anyone is really overrated right now.

What he said.

 

[HoopsMcCann]

Roddick has a Slam and is ****ing Sharapova.

Scoop just sucks.

Game, set, match, Mr. Roddick.

don't forget mr. roddick has gone out drinking with one hoops mccann

 

[sportschick]

Roddick has a Slam and is ****ing Sharapova.

Scoop just sucks.

Game, set, match, Mr. Roddick.

don't forget mr. roddick has gone out drinking with one hoops mccann

Well that just pushes him over the edge of coolness then

 

[HoopsMcCann]

indeed

 

[Cosmo]

OK. This passage deserved its time in the sun, too:

The only thing that saves Roddick from the "O" word is his parallel other, Lleyton Hewitt. No one can call Roddick overrated without making Lleyton his doubles partner. Because the Siamese-ness of their careers and the similarities of their falls are as if they were separated (by two years) at birth.

 

[slappy4428]

Roddick has a Slam and is ****ing Sharapova.

Scoop just sucks.

Game, set, match, Mr. Roddick.

don't forget mr. roddick has gone out drinking with one hoops mccann

Am sure he rates that above boinking Sharapova

 

[Bubba Fett]

OK. This passage deserved its time in the sun, too:

The only thing that saves Roddick from the "O" word is his parallel other, Lleyton Hewitt. No one can call Roddick overrated without making Lleyton his doubles partner. Because the Siamese-ness of their careers and the similarities of their falls are as if they were separated (by two years) at birth.

Roddick has been more of a disappointment (if you want to call it that) than Hewitt, who has no real weapons other than his ability to play great defense and get into an opponent's head.

Why am I commenting on this crap?

 

[broadway joe]

OK. This passage deserved its time in the sun, too:

The only thing that saves Roddick from the "O" word is his parallel other, Lleyton Hewitt. No one can call Roddick overrated without making Lleyton his doubles partner. Because the Siamese-ness of their careers and the similarities of their falls are as if they were separated (by two years) at birth.

That's actually not an awful piece of writing. I would not have guessed Scoop was capable of stringing those sentences together.

 

[Ace]

OK. This passage deserved its time in the sun, too:

The only thing that saves Roddick from the "O" word is his parallel other, Lleyton Hewitt. No one can call Roddick overrated without making Lleyton his doubles partner. Because the Siamese-ness of their careers and the similarities of their falls are as if they were separated (by two years) at birth.

That's actually not an awful piece of writing. I would not have guessed Scoop was capable of stringing those sentences together.

Bull. Siamese-ness is insensitive. He should have said "conjoined-twinness of their careers."

 

[goalmouth]

Scoop Jackson -- the Spike Lee of sports journalism.

 

[Songbird]

Scoop Jackson -- the Spike Lee of sports journalism.

Instead of "Do the Right Thing" it's "Write the Do Thing."