Patrick Sauer

Consider for a moment, if you will, being Boris Becker on April 29, 2022. Historically, you are the Wimbledon Wunderkind, a member of the Tennis Hall of Fame who won six Grand Slams, 49 singles titles, an Olympic gold, and $25 million in prize money alone. Yet here you are at Wandsworth, Her Majesty’s Victorian-era prison…

In 1940, legendary composer and songwriter Irving Berlin told his musical arranger Helmy Kresa that “White Christmas” was not only the best song he ever wrote, but also “the best song anybody ever wrote.”

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, “White Christmas” is the best-selling physical single of all-time with some 50-million copies of the Bing Crosby version sold worldwide.

There is a haunting and wordless scene in Stanley Kramer’s 1961 film “Judgment at Nuremberg” that’s easy to miss. The prosecution is playing a filmstrip compilation of concentration camp
atrocities…

Roughly an hour into Highest 2 Lowest, the latest Spike Lee joint, the wildly successful owner of the record label “Stackin’ Hits” David King (Denzel Washington, in the duo’s fifth go-round) boards a 4-train from Brooklyn’s Borough Hall in a hoodie-ballcap-pulled-low–dark sunglasses ensemble carrying a black Air Jordan backpack loaded up with $17.5-million in Swiss francs...

If asked to describe the ideal of tennis artistry, most fans would pull from a familiar canon: the angled dead-on-arrival drop shot, a feathery one-hand backhand slice, a down-the-line buggy whip forehand, a leaping at-the-apex overhead smash, a perfectly placed just-inside-the-baseline lob…

When I got this gig, I’d never heard of the Moomins. It’s an incredible saga about an incredible woman, Tove Jansson, and her wild imagination. Dig in. Trust me.

Billings-born tenor rocks The Metropolitan Opera in Moby-Dick—but that’s only part of the story…

Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver—the master of the toe-to-toe spit-flying umpire argument—was ahead of his time, a true baseball genius, no matter how many beers and cigarettes the night before

More than 58,000 United States soldiers died in the Vietnam War, but in the world of letters, the death of a single American civilian came to represent the entire jungle quagmire.

I wondered whatever became of my tennis teacher back in 1980s Billings Montana. Some 40 years later, I found out, and it ain't the sport she once dedicated her life to...

The Philadelphia 76ers won only one title with Julius Erving and Moses Malone. It was enough.

Get to know the personalized celebrity greeting company whose top earner is the legend Gilbert Gottfried. For the lover of Aladdin and The Aristocrats alike...

More than half a century ago, Susie Hinton (soon to be known by her gender-neutral pen name) was a student at Will Rogers, where she received a D in creative writing because class assignments were nowhere near as important to her as working out the plot and characters of The Outsiders. The story would come to define her life—even though these days she would rather discuss just about anything else.

Book Review: The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay, by Christopher Clarey…

The new NatGeo doc “Sally” tells the story of America’s first female astronaut. The heart and soul is Tam O’Shaughnessy, her (publicly secret) partner in all things including tennis. A Second Serve chat about her amazing life.