I remained quiet about Arsenal at the end of the season, amidst all of the speculation around Henry's departure, because it was pretty clear a major shakedown would occur and that we wouldn't know what was happening until much later in the game if ever. Now Henry is gone to Barca and the shakedown is still shaking down. Vice-Chairman David Dein was sacked, reportedly as a result of his support of the American take-over bid from U.S. billionaire Stanley Kroenke. The move unsettled The Boss (Wenger), as Dein was his creative partner in the horse trading business that has made the New Arsenal so successful. And apparently Wenger's unease about the future, his contract up after next year, made Henry eager to jump ship. The bottom line is we'll never really know what happened this spring, such is the secretive nature of football management, so as fans we look forward to how the year shapes up...

We've made it to the third round of Wimbledon with almost no surprise results but the matchups for Friday play included some humdingers. Federer/Safin has been much anticipated because the last time they met in a grand slam was the Australian Open semi in 2005, which was the last time R Fed lost to anyone besides Nadal in a grand slam. But there were other lovely matches bound to supply good play.

On Friday, May 11th, 2007, a 22 year-old motorist named Liko Kenney shot a cop to death on a small highway in the shadow of Mt. Kinsman near the Franconia Notch in New Hampshire. The circumstances of the killing were bizarre. Kenney, traveling with friend Caleb Macauley, was pulled over by patrolman Bruce McKay, a local officer with whom Kenney had a standing feud . Kenney reportedly told McKay to get another officer if he wanted to arrest him, and he drove away.

You don't need The Tennis Channel to watch Wimbledon 2007, which is good news if you don't get The Tennis Channel. If you do, though, the fact that ESPN2 is in charge this year means, for now at least, that John McEnroe isn't announcing, which is a major bummer. Tennis announcing on any network has in the past usually involved some combination of the same cast of characters: Mary Carrillo, the two McEnroe boys, Cliff Drysdale, Mary Jo Fernandez, Martina Navratilova, Pam Shriver, Luke Jensen. The major networks always supply a play-by-play commentator to accompany a couple of the above-mentioned tennis greats, who actually know how to talk about tennis. In the old days on the final weekends it was Barry McKay or Dick Enberg maintaining the hushed informational chatter, and then you had to put up with Bud Collins squealing and rhyming at intervals. But something strange is happening to tennis right now. ESPNization, having claimed all other sports, has come to the ladies and gentlemen of the tennis world. And Chris Fowler, of College Game Day, is our guide to Wimbledon 2007.