albertburneko
Albert Burneko
albertburneko
Writer at Deadspin.

The fourth set has largely dissolved into points decided by unforced errors and there haven’t been any of those long rallies in a while. Federer seems to be in control. Read more

Nadal’s first serve kinda abandoned him in that game, and Federer was beatin’ up the second serve. Now it is the ass of Rafa that shids and fards. Read more

Rafa, down 30-40 in the sixth game, blasts an absolute rocket of a forehand and then goes Super Saiyan when Federer can’t return it. This is good shit. Read more

A much more Federer-like first game of the third set, including a return of the slick lil’ drop shot. Read more

It’s been like 20 minutes since Fed hit the ball to the correct side of the net. Read more

Maybe too early to call it, but I feel Federer will come to regret replacing his racquet with a wiffle bat for the second set. Read more

New take: Play Wimbledon on a nice environmentally responsible pollinator garden. Read more

I know I am a washed homeowner doofus because I turned this on and my first thought was “the soil under that lawn looks incredibly shitty and depleted, no wonder it has bald spots.” Read more

Eh, I don’t want to have a fight about word choices here, but he hadn’t committed to anybody. The contract is the commitment. An informal agreement to later sign a contract is not a commitment. Read more

Eh, point taken, though as far as anybody has reported the Wizards aren’t actually attempting to trade him (yet). Read more

A lot of the teams have pretty defined valuation systems for picks, so they can say X pick is worth Y dollars or wins or Units Of The Process whatever and set their protections based on that. It’s pretty silly, especially in the NBA draft, where everything past like the third pick is basically a crapshoot in most Read more

These are absurd takes. Cousins’s game is nothing whatsoever like Whiteside’s. It’s fine to just say you don’t like him. Read more

Eh, I mean, this is fine I guess, but also, the Warriors’ new arena is about 450 miles from where Kawhi went to high school. For all practical purposes, as concerns his (rumored) desire to play close to where he grew up, it might as well be in Utah. Read more