opening weekend, san diego, boy, they blew it. they gave up a 21-point lead and lost to houston on the final play of the game. houston scored 24 you answered points. including this game-winner as time expired. what a win for texas. a gritty comeback. 31-28. trending this morning on bleacherreport.com, rafael nadal, he s the comeback king of tennis this year. remember last year, a knee injury threatened his entire career. now he s having one of the most dominant seasons ever. nadal won his second u.s. open title. he s 27. he s got a lot of grand slam titles. 13 in all. we ve seen managers yelling at umpires, baseball players at other players. last night it was jgirardi and showalt
seen a lot of offenses in his day says this one is absolutely crazy. i ve never been a part of anything like it when the first quarter is over, i thought they was about to go into halftime. i mean, it was unreal. and, you know, only thing i can say to myself, it s going to be a long season! final game of the opening week, san diego blew a 21-point lead and lost to houston on the final play of the game! the texans settled in and showed them how to finish scoring 24 unanswered points including that game winner as time expired. the texans win a gritty one 31-28. rafael nadal is the comeback king of tennis. over a year ago a knee injury threatened to end his career. he took down the number one player in the world yesterday to win his second u.s. open title
it was all it was promised to be. in the first half alone, the eagles scored 26 points. by comparison, the steelers ran 53 plays all game on sunday. the eagles ran 53 plays in the first half. houston by the way also won that nightcap against san diego. trending this morning on bleacherreport.com, rafael nadal, the comeback king of tennis. a year ago, a knee injury threatened to end his career. now he s having one of the most dominant seasons ever. nadal is winning and winning convincingly. he took down the number one player in the world to win his second u.s. open title. he s 27, healthy again. he has four wins on hard courts this year. you know he s the king of clay but he s proving he s ready to defend his championship and defend titles on the hard court, guys. you have four main players in tennis, nadal is back in that discussion of dominant players. rafa is back. thank you very much, my friend. you bet. rafa. rafa.
getting a lot of attention on-line. they are returning to replace bloomberg who ran city hall for 12 years. can t wait to see what happens. man, oh man. maybe that s the last shot we re going to hear from anthony weiner for a while. also from here in new york, tennis great rafael nadal claimed his second u.s. open title. he battled djokovic for three hours and 20 minutes. some of the rallies lasted more than 50 strokes. in the end it was nadal who pulled away to claim his 13th grand slam title. nadal won the french open this year. he s the first man to win at least one major trophy in nine consecutive seasons and looked good doing it. really good. time to check the weather for this tuesday. rain with possibility of flooding in the rockies and the southwest. dry along the west coast. much of the east coast as well but rain for southern texas in to florida. 89 in miami. 90s for most of the middle of the country.
as composed and as with it as he is this week. he has had a few blunders at this u.s. open because he dearly wants it. i think he s just learned through the process. and here he is now with just one round to go, and he embraces the challenge of what the u.s. open is all about. it s his 23rd attempt at it, and he s come close on five occasions, i suppose most significantly in 19 99 when he first really came close. he went toe to toe with payne stewart at pinehurst. stewart won his second u.s. open on that occasion. phil was expecting their first child with his wife amy, and he was prepared to leave the u.s. open at that time and leave the championship, but he stayed on until the bitter end, and they gave birth, a difficult birth a little bit later that week. this week he went back to his daughter s 12th she s a 12-year-old. her primary school graduation.