Tennis, Tressel, and School Teachers

It’s Memorial Day weekend and I have taken a few days of vacation....so I might as well knock out a few columns.....

The French Open tennis championship opens on Sunday on the red clay courts of Roland Garros....don’t look for any American (male or female) to win....

On the men’s side, Rafael Nadal is the hottest player on clay right now, but I will still take the best overall player in Roger Federer.....Federer is determined to win the French being that it is the only major title he has now won....

On the women’s side I am going with a wildcard in Martina Hingis.....the Swiss Miss is back and playing solid tennis....about five years ago, Hingis could not fend off the Williams sisters onslaught.....but things have changed....Venus has lost a step but at least she is ranked 11th in the world.....her sister, Serena, has dropped to 108th and will not play the French because of injuries....

Serena’s best days are behind her because of not only injuries, but also the lack of desire on her part.....despite this, I do think Serena has one more major championship left in her.....but who knows when that will happen....

It’s great to see the Edmonton Oilers only one game from making the Stanley Cup finals....it would be nice to see a Canadian team with the Cup this year....

Will someone please explain the difference between Miracle Whip Dressing and Heilman’s Mayonnaise??.......to me they seem the same.....

I was watching "Inside Edition" the other night and saw a report about another female high school teacher in trouble.....this time, the blond hottie was not sleeping with her students, but instead posing in swimsuit magazines.....I have one question to ask, where were all these blond hot teachers who wanted to have sex with their students at when I was in the 9th or 10th grade????.....
The headshot is the teacher who was "doing" one of her students.....the bikini babe is the teacher who posed for swimsuit magazines....

The best name in baseball right now – Boof Bonser.....

The Sporting News and Lindy’s annual football magazines are already on the shelves......both magazines have Notre Dame number 1 and Ohio State number 2....

Speaking of Ohio State.....I ran into my friend Jim Tressel last week when I was in C-bus.....yeh, that Jim Tressel.....I’ll have to say, coaching a big time program hasn’t changed him....he came up to me, shook my hand, and chatted for a few minutes....

Like I said to him, I wish him luck this year except with "The Team From Up North" comes to town.....

I’m sorry but the Cleveland Cavaliers blew it last week in their series against Detroit.....I’m reading how the Cavs fans are proud that their team made it this far and forced the defending Eastern Conference champs to a seventh game....WHAT!?!?....

The Cavs were up in the series 3-2, at home, and with the lead in the 4th quarter.....they had the Pistons on the ropes for goodness sakes.....but they choked.....

I hate when the media and fans keep saying "wait til next year".....the Cavs had the golden opportunity to dump Detroit and they couldn’t do it....and who knows what will happen next year.....the opportunity was there for the taking, but they couldn’t do it....

I’ll admit when I am wrong....and I have to say I have been wrong this year about Chi Chi Sabathia.....they big guy may finally be pitching to his potential.....he’s been dominating of late, but I still say he needs to stop ordering those double Whoppers....

Finally, sometimes the criminal justice system works as was the case with Kennie Boy Lay and Jeff Slippery Skilling.....it was great to see these cheats and crooks get found guilty for the Enron disaster......