Article: Rooting for the home team brings out the confessions of arevolving fan

Haim Chertok
Jerusalem Post
11-17-1995
Since my own affective life is scandalously constant, the last thing I expect when settling indolently in front of my home satellite center is to get jolted out of well-worn emotional channels. Yet at least twice in recent months, that's exactly what happened. If the first occasion was seemingly trivial, the second was monumental.

It was the men's quarterfinals of the US Open in Forest Hills. I had been watching an intimidating mechanism out-steady a ruddy lunger. Two masqueraders: an American with a French name versus a German with a Russian tag. Who, excepting tennis's absolute lovers, is capable of viewing such a contest without yielding a ...

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