Followers of this series can be forgiven for thinking that court tennis was exclusively an up-market game played only by cardinals and kings, because their courts, which tended to be in palaces, probably survived disproportionately. More people wrote about them too. This, however, is not entirely the case. There was much gambling on the game, […]
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When does a challenge become an adventure? Seems like it relates, at least in part, to timing. Challenges feel forward looking, but so can adventures. The two begin to differ after the fact when challenges are no longer challenging but adventures are still adventures.
MEET HAVENAROUND THE WORLD IN 50 COURTS – INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS AND MAKING MATCHES COMPETITIVE ALL WHILE AVOIDING DISTRACTING ADVERTISEMENTS
https://pundificator.com/around-the-world-in-50-courts-international-agreements-and-making-matches-competitive-all-while-avoiding-distracting-advertisements/
Rules and Those Who Make Them
The USGA officials have created a contest between lions and gladiators with the course playing the role of lion and the players the role of gladiator. The television spectators stave off slumber as they await the carnage.
https://pundificator.com/rules-and-those-who-make-them/
Around the World in 50 Courts – Nearing The Finish Line
The finish line is in sight. This episode will cover the last three courts that I have played.
Along the way, we encounter a rock star, some outlaws and a giant of the game.
https://pundificator.com/around-the-world-in-50-courts-nearing-the-finish-line/
The journey continues with a non-tour of the unplayed American courts, in which we encounter horses of all variety, families with lanes named after them, bottle pool, a fearsome dog, vicious club politics, an unfortunate nickname and striated sunlight.
https://pundificator.com/around-the-world-in-50-courtsa-fearsome-dog-and-an-unfair-nickname/
Our government is underperforming and not getting away with it.
The Congress is by far the worst offender. It has essentially abdicated, and other institutions are moving to fill the void.
https://pundificator.com/filling-the-void-after-an-abdication/
Around the World in 50 Courts Les Bouffants and the Undress Room
In which we meet several new court tennis characters, give some unwelcome political advice, and continue the port tradition in the Undress Room of a famous London Club.
https://pundificator.com/around-the-world-in-50-courts-les-bouffants-and-the-undress-room/
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Me ‘N Jake Go Way Back
In 1686, Jacob Bernoulli, the noted Swiss mathematician wrote a "letter to a friend" in which he set out the odds of two unequally skilled court tennis players winning a match.
If wondering how to make an interesting court tennis match out of two opponents of differing ability was a good enough topic for a man who would side with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in a battle over calculus with Sir Isaac Newton, it is good enough for me.
He also got a crater on the moon named after him.
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