Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Crappy Tire

Canadian Tire loses fight to call itself 'crap'

It's true, it's quite commonly referred to as Crappy Tire in Canada, at least, that's what I'm told by people who live in Eastern Canada. Living in Western Canada, I never heard this until I started working with transplanted Ontarioans. For what it's worth, I've never thought Canadian Tire was crappy.

Either way, this is a pretty funny story.

I don’t like the Tennis Williams

I don't like the Tennis Williams. There, I said it. I especially don't like their manipulative father, Richard.

Reuters: Dad says Venus may quit tennis in near future

This is why I don't like them, or, at least, Venus and Richard... perhaps I shouldn't put Serena in the same pile. That comment suggests all V and R care about is money. They don't care about the sport. For them it's a cash grab. I'd much rather watch and cheer for someone who actually cared what they were doing on the court.

If I'm going to cheer for Venus I might as well cheer the CEO of some Fortune 500 company likes to play tennis at the country club on the weekends.

A bunch of tennis links

Well, just my luck, they're showing the Agassi match (which I did want to see anyway) but they didn't show the Rafter or the Ivanisevic matches. Sigh... at least both won so there's a chance I can see them later in the tourney.

Here's some tennis links for you on my 1st 4th of July in the USA.

Mauresmo loses plot -- this is a very sad story about the mental state of the woman who was booed off the court at Roland Garros in May after losing in the first round. Apparently Amelie is still shook up (haunted according to the article) by that day.

Becker faces jail over £13m tax bill. Another sad story, about a childhood idol of mine.