Wiimbledon in Brooklyn!

boygabriel

This is awesome. Awesome like Wii.

http://wiimbledon.net/

what?

Wiimbledon is Brooklyn's first -- nay, the world's first! -- Wii tennis tournament. Or maybe it just has a cool name. We're clever like that. Sign up for the email newsletter above, and we'll let you know when the next tourney is.

when?

The Wiimbledon tourney will be held on Saturday, June 23rd, the weekend before the real Wimbledon starts.

where?

The location hasn't been finalized, but it will be in a bar in Brooklyn. Sign up and we'll let you know as soon as we do.

prizes!

We're gonna have prizes too. Probably a Wii system. Maybe some games. There will be beer.

prodigalson

Subject: Brooklyn Tennis

I'm old enough to remember when the tennis courts in Brooklyn were racially and ethnically segregated. Back in the early 60s, when I was about 10 or 11, my mother tried to take me to a public tennis court near Utica Avenue and the attendants there demanded that we leave. She (a Puerto Rican) said that I had every right to play there with the white kids as it was a public area. The attendants then said that if we didn't leave they were going to call the cops and to have her arrested.

Today, USTA is doing its best to fully integrate the sport and is bringing it to every ghetto in the country. Times sure have changed.