It's about sports, but not baseball. I don't have the strength to discuss that right now.

My 40th birthday is coming up this summer (email if you'd like my Amazon wish list) and everybody's telling me I should be freaked, but I'm actually not. Mostly because I love birthdays (a whole day to celebrate ME? Sounds like my kinda day), but also because Martina has shown me the way. For those of you who don't follow tennis at all, Martina Navratilova - at age 47 - has returned to play in the singles tournament at Wimbledon, and she's beating women less than half her age, all the while telling them the right way to play (which lesson they appear to be unhappy to be receiving). I'm thrilled because she's showing that an older woman can do it, but mostly I'm thrilled because I just love Martina. Some people seemed to think her the villain in the Chrissy vs. Martina battles, but nobody could deny that her conditioning, strength, and aggressiveness when playing took women's tennis to a whole new level.

ESPN is compiling Top 25 lists to celebrate their 25th anniversary and Martina landed at #22 in the list of Top 25 Athletes of the ESPN era. I'm glad she made the top 25 cut, but you can't convince me that all those 21 above her on the list are better athletes. I mean, I like Mario Lemieux and all, but I remember when he used to smoke. My guess is that many of the Top 25 wouldn't be able to hang with her training regimin, even at age 47.