Daily Bagel: The trouble with Nick Kyrgios, Andy Murray's dog and more

The trouble with Nick Kyrgios, Andy Murray and his dog, Roger Federer makes deviled eggs and more of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet.
Daily Bagel: The trouble with Nick Kyrgios, Andy Murray's dog and more
Daily Bagel: The trouble with Nick Kyrgios, Andy Murray's dog and more /

The Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and quipping from around the Internet.

• Today in whimsical reads: Roger Federer Makes Deviled Eggs.

• Nick Kyrgios is into the third round of Wimbledon. He's also spawning an army of think-pieces for his repeated insistence on ripping umpires

• We crave "characters" in tennis. But do we know what to do with them? Eurosport on the trouble with Nick Kyrgios

• Andy Murray winding down the day with his boy Rusty:

• Louisa Thomas for Grantland on the mystifying and talented women of the Czech Republic.

• Looking at the fruits of the IMG/WME merger a year later and the inherent conflicts of interest that permeate the sport, from The New York Times.

“Everybody picks on IMG when it’s time to talk about the conflict of interest,” [Fernando Soler] said, adding: “Everybody is conflicted. If you are not conflicted, it means you are no one, because you do very little.”

• Tune into any match involving an Australian man and you'll probably hit the mute button quickly: On "The Fanatics" one of tennis' most enduring and, at times, obnoxious presences. 

• Reem Abuleil for Sport360.com on the first Arab woman to serve as an umpiring official at Wimbledon.  

• Jack Sock will try and play through a fractured finger as he tries to defend his Wimbledon doubles title:

• Dear Parents: Your child should not be a tennis prodigy.  


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Courtney Nguyen
COURTNEY NGUYEN

Contributor, SI.com Nguyen is a freelance writer for SI.com, providing full coverage of professional tennis both on and off the court. Her content has become a must-read for fans and insiders to stay up-to-date with a sport that rarely rests. She has appeared on radio and TV talk shows all over the world and is one of the co-hosts of No Challenges Remaining, a weekly podcast available on iTunes. Nguyen graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1999 and received a law degree from the University of California, Davis in 2002. She lives in the Bay Area.