Four-time defending champion Rafael Nadal, the No. 1 seed at the 2009 French Open, fell to No. 23 Robin Soderling 6-2, 6-7 (2), 6-4, 7-6 (2) on Sunday.

I filed this in the main mag, but thought I’d share with the OTR folks.
Coedmagazine.com has a list of 10 professional athletes who are on Twitter. I’ve listed them here and you can click on their names to follow them:
-Giants QB Eli Manning (does he slur and lisp when he Tweets?)
-Snowboarder Shaun [...]

Sources close to OTR have told OTR that OTR will be no more. It’s just not the same anymore and it wouldn’t fair to our loyal readers to continue to just go through the motions. We did have a great run though. We broke the Asante Samuel signing. We were the [...]

 

Roger Federer’s streak of 40 wins in a row at Wimbledon has ended. Rafael Nadal broke Federer’s string of five consecutive Wimbledon championships Sunday at the All England Club in a thrilling (if you watched it, which I didn’t. But, we assume it was thrilling.) final match, winning 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-7 [...]

With Murray! This ad is only entertaining if you know “Flight of the Conchords” and Murray, their manager.
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I’m waiting to get picked up to go to lunch, so I thought I’d post some sports bloopers. We can’t understand a single lyric of the song, but we imagine it has “sports bloopers” or “whoopsy daisy” in the chorus. Because then it would be relevant. Eat lunch at your desk and [...]

We can’t ignore the overwhelming support we are receiving from our biggest fan ‘barry.’ He is one of the main reasons that OTR is able to keep it going. His brilliant posting on comments and the respect he gives Micah and I is second to none. Furthermore, without hesitation we are giving [...]

I found this very interesting article on Bloomberg.com that is a must read. Before you click over and read it, let me provide an excerpt:
“Discoveries in genetics, physiology and nanotechnology are creating new challenges to definitions of cheating. Sports executives including Atlanta Falcons President Rich McKay and former World Anti-Doping Agency chief Dick Pound [...]

Terrell Owens is good friends with Any Roddick and has been right by his side this week during the Sony Ericsson Open. On Tuesday, Roddick defeated some guy named Benneteau 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. OTR doesn’t know what that means. The win sets up a match against Roger Federer, the number one ranked [...]

Mikhail Youzhny is a tennis player. And when things go wrong on the court he likes to beat his head with the racket until it bleeds. Not till the racket bleeds, but his head.
This is a first for OTR. A tennis article!!! I actually had to create a new category. [...]