Knowing our of association with Russia’s largest sports daily, SovetskySport, the Most Valuable Network approached us this week and asked if we’d accept an assignment few who know outdoor sporting events in July in D.C. would even consider: sitting beneath a searing sun, skin clammy with Mid-Atlantic humidity, and blogging . . . on tennis, as played by Russia’s Anna Kournikova. Wednesday night, Kournikova and her St. Louis Aces tennis team strut into CityCenterDC to face our Washington Kastles.
Initially, of course, we begged off the assignment, pointing to our fidelity, our monogamy, with but one sport. Also: we know less about tennis — team or any other version — than we do about quantum physics. But Washington today is a special destination for elite Russian athletes, and from some cursory investigative work this week we learned that that nation produces notably gifted female tennis players as well as sick-skilled hockey players. And these Russian hockey players have a way of attaching themselves to beautiful female athletes in other sports, including tennis, or to American fashion supermodels, and so we began to regard the MVN assignment as an opportunity to learn more about this distinctive culture — and share the edifying experience with our readers. Really, we’re doing this for you, dear blog reader.
It is also true that we are willing to do anything to help draw media attention away from the Washington Redskins at this time of year.
The assignment calls for us to attend a press conference with her hotness late Wednesday afternoon, take perch among the tennis press for the St. Louis-Washington team match that evening, and bring readers here and at MVN OFB’s unique flavor of new media coverage.
Our aim is simple: to shed light on a strikingly fit world-class athlete thus far little known to users of the Internet.
Because OFB is animated by the collective spirit comprised in its patronage, we welcome with your comments here your suggestions for coverage of this Starry Night in SportsWashington.
Remembering that OFB is a family-read blog, what would you ask Anna if you could put but a single question to her?
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Hmm. Well, I wouldn’t touch that question with a ten foot pole, no sir.
Sounds like an assignment for DC Sports Chick to me. The rest of you guys will have your objectivity skewered by your eyeballs.
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It really is all about the boobs.
One question I’d ask her. hmmm….
“Your place or mine?”
Or, from a hockey stand point: Do you regret dumping Sergei Federov
Muddapucker, I suspect you’re right about that…
Thanks for that photo!
I remember Most Valuable Network as running an article headlined, “Frank Robinson is a Prick,” back in 2005–after Frank caught the Angel’s pitcher throwing pine tar balls. The auther, Joe Florkowski, still angry about his pitcher being caught, later wrote a column entitled, “Let Them Cheat.” MVN has some great writing, but I lost a lot of respect for them after those two columns. The original “FRiaP” article is gone, but Florkowski reprints most of it in here: http://mvn.com/mlb-angels/2005/10/27/a-look-back-at-the-season-that-was-part-2/
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