As Wimbledon plans to add 39 more courts and 8,000 more annual visitors, residents of the surrounding London hamlet sue to prevent the tournament's expansion. How do we balance the needs of a world famous sporting event with long time residents' needs? And what to do with recent transplants who both love the tournament and also want it to always stay exactly as it is today? (We ignore them.)

Also:

• ESPN coverage of Wimbledon seems stale
• John McEnroe won't bother pronouncing anyone's name correctly
• Stefanos Tsitsipas and Paula Badosa break up
• Tsitsipas' coach tells the media Tsitsipas needs to get his shit together
• Grigor Dmitrov's tragic injury retirement against Sinner ☹️

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Michele describes Wimbledon the way some people describe Christmas: "the most wonderful time of the year". She's not entirely wrong! This week we run down some Wimbledon updates, some controversies and random thoughts about why Brits don't believe in room fans.

Also:

• Bryan goes to Pride and his battery runs out at the after party
• Why Fahrenheit is a better way to measure air temperature than Celsius
• A Wimbledon Final watch party under the Brooklyn Bridge

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On September 2, 1990, after attending the US Open, Brian Watkins and his family got on the subway at 53rd St. and 7th to go to dinner in the West Village. While waiting for the train, 8 teenagers allegedly attacked Watkins’ father with a boxcutter and kicked and attacked his mother. Brian intervened and was then stabbed in the chest by one of the teens.

Brian died in the ambulance on his way to St. Vincent’s hospital, over 40 blocks away. Eight years later, the Giuliani administration settled with the family to the tune of $300,000 and the naming of the East River Park tennis facility for Brian. Life was cheap in 1990s New York.

As the city chooses its next mayor, we reflect on that turbulent era, voters' grievances today, and how fear might lead us into the dark embrace of a Mayor Andrew Cuomo 😱

Also,

• Jannik Sinner's bizarro new "single" with opera singer Andrea Bocelli
• Sakkari/Putinseva catfight
• Alexander Bublik tearing up the grass (and frightening other seeded players at Wimbledon)
• Marketa Vondrousova's weird tattoo

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