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I won't go so far as to say that Rod Laver is off the radar when it comes to athletes whose reputations have long outlived their careers, but it's remarkable how often his name is tossed into the "Greatest of all time" debate almost as an afterthough...

This year's award for Dumbest Idea by a Major Sports Organization goes to the ATP Tour for its plans to dismantle the tournament tier structure that gave us, among other things, the entity known as the Master Series. Starting in 2009, the ATP propos...

(Editor's note: This blog originally ran April 30.) OK, I know we're right in the meat of the clay-court season, but I feel like I've already seen more red dust than they've got on all of Mars. Let's take a little break for green -- cool, damp, gree...

Going with the old Creative Writing 101 maxim, "Never use two words when one will do," I refuse to call the new ATP Tour format a "Round Robin." I'm just going with "Confusion." So let's all get this straight from the start: This week in Adelaide, Au...

The last significant tennis event of the year gets underway tomorrow: the final of the sport's showcase team event and a competition that some (including me) value above all things short of the four Grand Slam Events. We're talking Davis Cup, and Arg...