If you've listened to my radio show over the years, you know that my absolute favorite sport period is tennis.
I had a weird feeling while watching the New England Patriots win the AFC championship game Jan. 20 and participating in the lament of Baltimore sports fans on social media that the dreaded Patriots would again be Super Bowl bound.
In tennis, the legends of the sport are treated with the greatest reverence. If you've watched any of the Australian Open, you've noticed that when Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Serena or Venus Williams take the court, the crowd erupts in a show of great deference. Those figures are beloved, and while fans enjoy the occasional upset, they vastly prefer to continue to see these icons of the sport make deep runs and play longer into the tournament.
