Normally sporting arena is one of the competitions and rivalaries...
There have been only a few teams and players that have dominated their sports for a long period of time....
A few examples from the past have been West Indian team under Clive Loyd in cricket, Sergei Bubka in pole vault, or a Bull run in NBA, or Ferrari-Schumacher's brief domination (I maybe a bit less informed about the other sports though).
But apart from this most of the sports have been blessed with healthy rivalaries at any point of time to make sports worth watching.
My dilemma offlate has been in tennis where however much I want to watch Federer play his magical shots but most of the time forgone conclusion of the match or the helplessness of the player on the other side makes the whole spectacle similar to watching 100th rerun of Friends episode.
So I had decided to give Federrer Vs. Roddick a miss.... and as per the script Federer despatched Roddick in straight sets.... reducing Roddick from title hungry competitor to down and out beer thirsty bloke.
I am not actually praying that Federer loses next time by playing below par game but praying for someone to come along and play at his level to beat him ( wouldn't that be a slugfest worth plonking yourself in front of telly for )... there aren't many who seem to be capable of this at the moment, maybe and just maybe Marat Safin.....
talking of domination ... another spectacle had gotten off the blocks .... Tour de France... which commentrators have started dubbing already as "Tour de Lance"....
actually cycling worldover ( in my marignalized world maybe ) is known for its drug scandals and Lance Armstrong's post cancer heroic efforts.
by the way Tour de France is quite confusing to follow for me .... just too many jerseys I guess...
as of now champion seems to be in 16th position....as of stage 2...
