Left Coast Sports Babe

How long did Sunday’s epic five set match last at Wimbledon between Roger Federer and Andy Roddick? By the time it was over, Brett Favre had un-retired and retired three times.

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How long was the match? NBC may get around to showing it on tape-delay by Monday.

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Roger Federer’s Wimbledon win gave him 15 Grand Slams. Or as Joey Chestnut calls 15 Grand Slams, a light breakfast.

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Just wondering, in the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest, are Tums considered a performance enhancing drug?

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Reportedly Alaskans have asked Tina Fey if she wants to finish out Governor Sarah’s Palin’s term. She looks the same, sounds more articulate, and has been spending about the same amount of time recently in Alaska.
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Sarah Palin’s speech has been compared to Richard Nixon’s famous “Checkers” speech. Actually, the original plan for her speech involved a gift puppy. But it looked a bit wolf-like, and unfortunately Sarah shot it.

(No hate mail from PETA please, I am not condoning shooting puppies.)
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Vice President Biden said that he and President Obama “misread” the severity of the recession. And former President Bush said “See what can go wrong when you read?”

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Arizona has passed a law allowing people to bring guns into bars. In related news, Plaxico Burress immediately instructed his agent to start negotiating with the Cardinals.

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The San Francisco Giants have two pitchers on the All-Star Team, Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain. The last time that happened was back in the 1960s – those pre-performance enhancing asterisk days. One of the Giants pitchers named was Juan Marichal, the other – Gaylord Perry.

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