Scooter Chronicles

The top two seeded women of the tourney, American Lindsay Davenport and Russian Maria Sharapova, both got knocked out in their quarterfinal matches today. That leaves 7th seeded Nadia Petrova of Russia the top seed left. Yikes! But that is not really fair, since Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium is left. She won the French and US Open’s in 2003, then the Australian Open in 2004. I was surprised to see her so low a seed, but her world ranking is only 12th. Must be struggling this year.

Henin-Hardenne was the one that knocked Sharapova out, 6-4, 6-2. Davenport lost to France’s Mary Pierce, 6-3, 6-2. Pierce is seeded 21st in the tourney and won the French Open in 2000.

I know some of you have been just dying to find out how I did last week.

THE FREEDOM WIN!!!

Yes, miracles never cease! I got some big games from all the players involved, and was up against a team that had many poor performances from their players, which led to a 108 point margin of victory. Now hopefully I can get a few more here. Trent Croad of the Hawthorn Hawks was the guy that really helped. I had been looking at his stats wrong and didn’t realize how well he was doing. I put him in last week, but he had season lows in quite a few categories. But this week he...

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Last night Marcia and I watched “Wilde”, a movie about the life of poet/playwright Oscar Wilde. It stars Stephen Fry of “Blackadder” and “Jeeves and Wooster” fame.

I know of Oscar Wilde, but really knew little about him or his work. This movie centered on his final 15-16 years of his life, just before his marriage to Constance Lloyd. And it really displays little of his marriage, and almost solely on his extra-marital affairs with men, most notably Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas who is played by Jude Law, and his continuing friendship with ex-lover Robbie Ross.

Not knowing what is true, embellished,...

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