Since you desi cheapos would never dream of spending $6 on a newspaper, it falls upon us to tell you the interesting news.
Folks, Nadal has made it to the cover of the New York Times Magazine.
Unless you’ve lately come in from Mars or just got off the Villupuram fast passenger, y’all know we are referring to the tennis legend Rafael Nadal.
Yes, we’re talking about the man who makes young girls tremble, grownup girls palpitate and even women of an indelicate age swoon.
For those not familiar with the Nadal story, the NYT piece serves as a nice apéritif.
Here are some interesting excerpts from the NYT story:
* Federer thrills people, too, but the Nadal thrill is so different from the Federer thrill that studying the two of them is like a gorgeous immersion course in the varieties of athletic possibility. Federer is elegant and fluid and cerebral, so that his best tennis looks effortless even when he is making shots that ought to be physically impossible. Nadal is muscled-up and explosive and relentless, so that Continue reading »

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