Television networks, grrr...

It was a weekend of tennis and golf. The French Open finished up this weekend and NBC covered it. I missed the women's final yesterday because I chose to go for a bike ride. I missed most of the men's final this morning because I had to teach spin. I did see the first few breaks in the first set. But I was quite surprised to come back home less than 2 hours later and find the match over and done with. Looks like I didn't miss much. But I was psyched that Federer and Nadal finished because with hours and hours of air time left, surely, I thought, NBC would replay the women's final between Dinara Safina and Ana Ivanovic* both vying for their first grand slam title, or at least show a few sets of doubles. After all, American Bob Bryan won the mixed.

But no. They aired last year's Wimbledon final between Federer and Nadal. I already saw that one!

So that was more me whining that the network didn't really fit my schedule. Though I think one could make an argument that they probably wouldn't deign to show a women's match--maybe a Justine Henin classic given her recent retirement?--on the day of the men's final.

But this next one is a real, legitimate gripe and--not surprising--it comes from The Golf Channel, which I had on this weekend to watch the McDonald's** LPGA Tour Championships. Good tournament, by the way; I thought Annika was going to pull it out, but major congratulations to rookie Yani Tseng for making her first tournament win a major. [She had a female caddie by the way which is why, when it came to playoff time, I rooted for her over veteran Maria Hjorth.] Not bad. Paula Creamer is probably cringing in her pink shoes (and skirt and hat and shirt and hair ribbons) and trying to crush those pink balls in her non-major winner hands.

Anyway all weekend I heard about how this coming week is US Open week on The Golf Channel. All US Open, all week. That's the men's US Open by the way. The Women's US Open--and, yes, women is...

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