BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Agassi & Sampras Showdown. Heck, I am watching this!


Tennis fans are in for a double-header spectacular event when The Venetian Macao Tennis Showdown 2009 opens October 25, 2009. Combining the top talents in tennis of today and tomorrow the sports spectacular at the Cotai Arena features an encounter between two of the game’s greatest players ---Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi---and two of the brightest future talents---Junior world No. 1 Yuki Bhambri and American champion Ryan Harrison.

The younger stars will kick off the afternoon with a timed 45-minute singles match, followed by the match-up between Sampras and Agassi—two sets and a ten-point tie-breaker if one set all. This will be a historic first encounter between the two legendary greats since Sampras defeated Agassi to capture the 2002 US Open.

Closing match will be one set of doubles with pairings to be determined by a draw at the “Meet the Players” Press Conference on October 24. Here the clashing titans of tennis will join the future champions for an exciting doubles event.

More information on this once-in-a-lifetime sports spectacle and other Macau offerings may be obtained from http://www.macautourism.gov.mo/.

Anyone want to go and watch? We can plan this trip. Email me so we can make this happen.

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