Cav's Place

Nearly two years ago, I was wondering whether we’ll lose ski jumping to climate change, largely focusing on the lack of snow and the rain that sometimes started falling during the competition, but this year it’s obvious that I need to focus on an issue that I just mentioned in passing in that previous post, […]

I watched the Europa League draw earlier and just have to throw this out here and ask what kind of mockery was that? They used a computer to do something, then set 24 ties by just drawing a few numbers to pair groups of teams in some order that was arrived at in ways that […]

A couple of days ago, I noticed an article about the first official, FIA-sanctioned, racing series reserved for fully electric cars: Formula E. It will debut next year and the first season is set to consist of ten races, all taking place on street circuits. Currently, the confirmed venues are Rio de Janeiro and Rome, […]

After Rafael Nadal crashed out in the second round, this year’s Wimbledon was announcing itself as very interesting. And now that we also had the second longest match in the history of the tournament take place yesterday, you can say that another segment of that promise has been delivered as well. As a result, now […]

Somewhat strangely, I haven’t been following the Roland Garros this year, only glancing over the first round results for singles a couple of days ago. However, last night I went through all the results so far for both singles and doubles and noticed one match that stood out due to its length: Paul-Henri Mathieu defeated […]