Happy aphelion, the day when the Earth is farthest from the sun

but hasnt received an update in over a year.

 choose our new summer bundle and purchase a years worth of The Paris Review and The New York Review of Books for $99 ($50 off the regular price!).Louisa Thomas opens Let It Be Love by rejecting the schmaltzy application of a popular tennis term:Theres a T-shirt favored by a certain kind of tennis player that says.

Happy aphelion, the day when the Earth is farthest from the sun

or that Hawk-Eye is the name of the technology used to verify a challenged umpire call? Theres a story in there somewhere.Ive heard again and again of the history about to be made: Rafael Nadals seventh French championship (history made).I coach to pay the bills …Double Fault finds A-J Aronstein investigating tennis to figure out what to pass on (a service motion.

Happy aphelion, the day when the Earth is farthest from the sun

Scott Korb illustrates the mythic heights of tennis writing in his essay Stage Struck:Sports broadcasters are guiltier these days than sportswriters of the grand metaphor approach where tennis is concerned.And this story both never was and will always be about Rafael Nadals run as the master of clay-court tennis.

Happy aphelion, the day when the Earth is farthest from the sun

my slice backhand follows the flamboyant path of a violin virtuosos bow striking the climactic note of a concerto—from above my right shoulder plucked diagonally down to my left shoestring.

Pamela Petros ThunderStick is titled after and structured around a tennis racket:Its not every day you get a box of tennis racquets in the mail.the former Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator for the U.

after more than 20 years of research.Its a tremendously wild area.

Were talking thousands of square miles of country.head of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team and an ecologist at theU.

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