In an epic battle of good vs. evil, old vs. young, cougar vs. kitten, more pathetic vs. most pathetic, there was no clear cut winner.  I guess we, the collective TV audience, has finally won now that NBC’s Age of Love is over.  Although I kind of feel like I did after I beat a scrub, whom I should’ve double bageled, 7-5 in the third set.  As in, yeah I’m glad the match is over and I won, but I need to take a long, hard look in the mirror before I take the court again.  Low and behold, the show is not entirely over, because Mark Philippoussis will marry Amanda Salinas (a 25 year old kitten- shocking, I know) on national television sometime later this fall (this marriage part is according to wikipedia, so take it for what it’s worth).  NBC certainly can’t be considered a winner, the show had low ratings until last night for the finale; but it still finished 3rd behind Hell’s Kitchen and repeats of Two and Half Men & Rules of Engagement.  I guess for right now we can consider Mark and his future wife a winner as well, but I’ll place the over-under for this marriage at 3 years, and take the under.

In Montreal today, first round winners included James Blake and Andy Murray, who played in his first match since Hamburg in May.  I guess given the themes of my recent posts, I’ll mention that he defeated Robby Ginepri, quite handily I might add.  Out in Los Angeles, both Dementieva and Shahar Peer won their first round matches with relative ease. 

Be back tomorrow with a more thorough blog, topic YTD.

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