Making an ass out of you and me

It always seems safe to assume Federer will win if he's playing a final against someone not named Rafael Nadal. Go figure. He's behind in the fifth set right now at Flushing Meadows against 6'6 Juan Martín del Potro of Argentina.

UPDATE: Del Potro wins. Not even old enough to drink in New York, the giant tears up thanking the three people in his friends' box. He's lucky he had the chance (6:15); at least twice, creaky old Dick Enberg ignored the well raised champion's mild requests to say a few words in Spanish. The nice people at Lexus, after all, had to give him a car. The U.S. Open is the only grand slam event in which the awards ceremony is ruined by some corporate idiot giving the player a check. And then we wonder why the rest of the world thinks America has no class.