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Enough, already, from all these people talking about Wimbledon!
How many were actually watching the Roger Federer-Rafael Nadal final that is being hailed as the finest tennis match ever?
Three times I turned it on, but I didn’t come close to watching the full six hours, including postponements. I was watching at the end, however, when Federer’s final forehand found the middle of the net, and, frankly, that left me a little flat.
Better a spectacular passing shot or a killer overhead. If you’re talking about history-making event in a time frame that fit my schedule, I’ll take 41-year-old Dara Torres’ 50 freestyle in the swimming Olympic Trials. An American record and it took less than 24 seconds. — Doug Doughty

“I was in the room here one day... watchin’ the Mexican channel on TV. I don’t know nothin’ about Pele. I’m watchin’ what this guy can do with a ball and his feet. Next thing I know, he jumps in the air and flips into a somersault and kicks the ball in — upside down and backwards... the goalie never knew what hit him.
"Pele gets excited and he rips off his jersey and starts running around the stadium waving it around his head. Everybody’s screaming in Spanish. I’m here, sitting alone in my room, and I start crying. That’s right, I start crying. Because another human being, a species that I happen to belong to, could kick a ball, and lift himself, and the rest of us, up to a better place to be, if only for a minute... let me tell ya, kid — it was pretty ... glorious. It ain’t the six minutes... it’s what happens in that six minutes.” -- Speech by Elmo, played by the late J.C. Quinn, to high school wrestler Louden Swain in the 1985 movie Vision Quest.

I felt the same way watching the epic Wimbledon final between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer on Sunday. Thank you to both. —Buddy Wright

Here's the results from Group AA singles at Radford University today. Actually, rain forced the girls final to finish at Virginia Tech.

GIRLS
Championship
Mary Kate James (Jamestown) def. Katelyn Doss (Virginia High), 6-3, 6-1

Semifinals
Mary Kate James (Jamestown) def. Lauren Billingsley (Blacksburg), 6-0, 6-1
Katelyn Doss (Virginia High) def. Sabine Kronenberg (Heritage) 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (4)

BOYS
Championship
Yakov Diskin (Grafton) def. Alex Funkhouser (Handley) 6-4, 6-3
Semifinals
Yakov Diskin (Grafton) def. Ed Arsura (Hidden Valley) 6-0, 6-1
Alex Funkhouser (Handley) def. Chad Brady (Graham) 7-6 (6), 6-4