Very poor show

Watching the 36-year-old Djokovic being hammered by the 22-year-old Italian Jannik Sinner at the Australian Open reminded me of when Pete Sampras used to lose a match.  "I wasn't feeling well, I had stomach problems," Sampras used to whine.  Never would he say his opponent played better.  Never would he congratulate his adversary.

Sampras, always ungracious in defeat.

That's what Djokovic did yesterday.  He railed about his "poor level" and said "he didn't understand how he could have played so badly to lose".

Never did he say Sinner bested him, pure and simple.  Just couldn't do it.

Sinner in his deserved glory.

Serena Williams always did this too.  When she won, she would magnanimously praise her opponent, but when she lost, she always said she was under the weather, blamed a linesman, screamed at a chair umpire, or claimed the calls were bad....blah, blah, blah.

Can you imagine Rod Laver, John Newcombe or Ken Rosewall ever behaving like that?  Never.  Gone are the days of "The Gentlemen's or Ladies" Game.  Now it's all about money.  I find it sad, frankly.

And speaking of sports, London police have FINALLY charged five former players on the Canadian junior hockey team for the 2018 sexual assault and rape of a young woman with whom they had been "partying".  After an initial investigation, the police failed to lay a charge and closed the case.  Huh??!!

Other investigations of the Hockey Canada good old boys running the organization were too obvious to ignore, so charges were finally laid.  Six years later.  To this day, they are refusing to release an "internal" report on the crime.  How can it be deemed internal?  Rhetorical.

My question is, what kind of parents -- and particularly mothers -- raise their sons to think it's a lark and part of their entitlement to repeatedly gang-rape a girl?!  Who are these people?!!??  

Naturally, his parents weren't by his side, when Alex Formenton turned himself in the other day.  Why wasn't his mother with him?  Afterall, she's the one who gave him his outlook on women.  Just another rabid, frothing hockey mom, shouting and screaming at refs over the years from the stands.  Shame on her. 

Alex Formenton, one of the accused, was the only player to turn himself in.  

Evidently, William Golding's 1954 novel 'Lord of the Flies' is alive and well.  But in this case, it didn't take months for the boys to revert to caveman behaviour and begin attacking and killing each other, as they did in the novel.  No, in that hotel room in London it only took a few hours and a bunch of booze for them to drag a young girl by the hair into a room and onto a bed and repeatedly attack her.  

Can't you just hear them laughing, hooting and egging each other on.  Tragic for everyone.  Thanks to their parents' indulgence of them, in the hopes they would all become multi-millionaire NHLers, every life in this mess is now ruined.

Great job Mom and Dad!  

Yep, we are just a few baby steps out of the cave.