Chris Rogers is Paul Collingwood Colly had only 15 Tests as he faced up in Brisbane, just nine more than Rogers, but the parallel is more in batting styles and "decent blokeness" than statistics.
Roddick's 6-3, 6-0, 6-0 drubbing of the passive Bernard Tomic was his 27th night match in Arthur Ashe Stadium, seven more than Roger Federer, who has never lost at night there.
Wakefield (2-4) gave up four hits in seven and a third innings to push his career total to 2,777 innings, one more than Roger Clemens worked for Boston.
There were more four-letter words than "Roger!
Franco will be ready, Manager BOBBY VALENTINE said, whenever nature allows; there is no timetable for his return.... MO VAUGHN, recovering from a broken bone in his right hand, says he will be ready to come off the disabled list in a little more than a week.... ROGER CEDEÑO has a slight strain behind his left knee, a problem that kept him out of the lineup last night.
Spielman did re-sign Henderson's younger brother, Erin Henderson, but Erin is more of a Roger Clinton than a Jeb Bush (which is why he got only a one-year deal).
Though Roger seems more than a little admiring.
Better still, the fan or the inspired newcomer needs to hunt down John Mueller's "Astaire Dancing" (1985), a big volume that analyzes (with frame enlargements) his every dance number on film; there we learn that in the years at RKO, the Astaire-Rogers films more than doubled in cost without showing the same expansiveness in income.
Roger-Vasselin understands more than most the rich tennis history in this country and the nearly 30-year drought since a Frenchman won this tournament.
They are more Roger Rabbit than Quake or Doom.
That's more than 800 hours of a life spent watching Johnny Depp walk the deck of the Jolly Roger or whatever, which is weirdly kind of impressive a feat only rivaled by the Canadian who watched the third Lord of the Rings movie 361 times this year.
