Neil

@neilforreal.bsky.social

Tennis and politics. Plus music, history, Canada, life. 🎾🎸🇨🇦 Pickleball gives you warts. (Kidding.) Nazis get punched. (Not kidding.) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚤, sit down next to me. "If you're after gettin' the honey, then you don't go killin' all the bees." ~Joe Strummer

Put another way, Ford wants to spend more on removing bike lanes in Toronto ($48M) than he's spent protecting all of Ontario's businesses from an international trade war. Ontario deserves serious leadership, that follows through on promises, and actually puts people before profits.

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

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For anyone who missed it, here's Andre Agassi eviscerating the whiner in the #LaverCup trophy ceremony (courtesy of the /tennis subreddit). "Waaa, I'm the third best player in the world, I suck ..." 😂😂😂

Team Europe takes the #LaverCup. Sunday's matches were a bit anticlimactic after the wild Saturday that peaked with Carlos Alcaraz's spectacular win over Taylor Fritz. But overall, another extremely entertaining event, one which many fans -- e.g., me -- look forward to every fall.

Team Europe celebrates its win at the Laver Cup.

Andre Agassi to Learner Tien: "Every time you get it up on his forehand you get a look, assuming he even makes it." Hard to imagine that kind of disdain for Alcaraz, Sinner, Federer, Nadal, et al. The asterisk is real. #LaverCup

Mixed feelings about this Team Europe doubles win. Great effort by Flavio Cobolli and Jakub Mensik to take down Taylor Fritz and Alex DeMinaur, but it now puts that unsavory asterisk of a player in position to clinch the #LaverCup. Emblematic of the times we live in, I guess.

Jakub Mensik and Flavio Cobolli chest bump on court at the Laver Cup.

Grateful that CBC Gem streamed the Billie Jean King Cup finals tourney. Great run by Czechia 🇨🇿 in running the table 🥰. Sorry Ukraine 🇺🇦 😥. Barbora Strychova joins Billie Jean King, Chrissie Evert, and Margaret Court as the only women to win Fed Cup/BJK Cup as a player and as a team captain.