I’m not a huge tennis fan. I’ll watch Wimbledon if there’s nothing else on, but that’s about the extent of it.  With one major exception:

I love the US Open. I love the fact that the entire city gets into it. I love the late night matches. I love going to the US Tennis Center and watching no name players on side courts who two years later became major stars.

I also love that TV Morning shows set up tennis courts in the middle of midtown and make their hosts get beaten by pros.

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Thanks to the great guys at Midwest Sports Fan, the King participated in one of his first fantasy football drafts of the year this weekend. Having done little to no research on the topic I found myself drafting on name alone. The least I could have done was get a copy of Entertainment Weekly. I probably wouldn’t have picked Kurt Warner after seeing this picture with Brenda Song. That is so shiny!

-With Leather

Fresh off his world record runs in the 100m and 200m at the World Championships, Usain Bolt headed to Spain for the opening of the La Liga season. But before he settled into his seats for the Real Madrid game the world record holder decided to show off his ball skills to the fans at the Bernabéu.

Robert Siegel’s directorial debut, “Big Fan” is getting excellent reviews. It follows the life of an obsessed Giants fan, played by Patton Oswalt, who gets beaten up by the team’s best player (less likely to happen in real life now that Plax is gone.)

But before he became a screenwriter (he also wrote last year’s hit “The Wrestler) or journalistic humorist (he was one of the original minds behind “The Onion,”) Siegel was an awkward teenager with a paintbrush and a dream.

He gives a full explanation at the A.V. Club.

The National Enquirer tells us a story that has Tony Romo looking like one horny dog. Apparently the Dallas QB, tried putting the moves on not one, not two, but three of Jessica Simpson’s girlfriends.

“One friend told her: “We were at a party when you were out of town and I ran into Tony. We were friendly, just talking. But the more he drank, the more friendly he got. Finally, he said, ‘You know, you and I should get together – Jessica doesn’t need to find out!’”

Others said Tony would get “all grabby and kissy-face,” but they’d push him away.

The girls never told Jessica, knowing she’d “kill the messenger…or confront Tony, who’d swear the girls were hitting on him, and a stupid war would start,” said the friend.”

It ain’t right if your game ain’t tight. At least it looks like Simpson has some loyal girlfriends. I wonder if one of those girls is Cacee Cobb? If so, pretty sure Donal Faison want to have a couple words with Mr. Romo.

DII St. Paul’s College, in Virginia,has canceled their season opener against West Virginia Wesleyan. It seems like they have a pretty decent excuse.

A Division II school in Virginia has canceled its 2009 season opener because it doesn’t have helmets or football pads.

St. Paul’s College has ordered the equipment but it hasn’t arrived yet so the school canceled Saturday’s game against West Virginia Wesleyan, WE athletic director Ken Tyler said Friday.

If you’re looking to make  a quick fortune. Go open a Modell’s near St. Paul’s College in Virginia. I can guarantee at least one customer.

You thought an unassisted TRIPLE play was bad?  Check this out:

In a sudden end to a trying year, the Mets’ Jeff Francoeur lined into a rare centuple play against the Florida Marlins Wednesday, which by rule cut New York’s season short. “I hit it on the screws, but it just happened to be in a spot where they could turn a hundred,” said Francoeur, who watched helplessly as Marlins second baseman Dan Uggla tagged everyone in the Mets dugout before heading into the clubhouse and tagging both equipment manager Charlie Samuels and physical therapist John Zajac.

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Here is video of Shaquille O’Neal playing Scrabble with late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. If I have learned anything from this game, it is Shaq’s take on the English language is much different than most. Whenever in doubt just create you own word. VAGONAD-O!

No matter how great this segment was, it was trumped by the awkward interaction between Shaq and 17 year old Selena Gomez directly after.

-H/T NESW Sports

Page Six has a blind item about a golfer in LeBron’s home town. Who is it?

WHICH well-liked pro golfer once switched sponsors because he needed several million dollars in hush money? Seems he knocked up a stripper while playing at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, and had to pay her off to keep their love child a secret

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Jeff Reed: “Yo Ed, this is about how large”

Ed Reed: “Get the F outta here. You ain’t that big!”

-H/T to the defending champs OFTOT