Addicts who adhere to the 12-step program will tell you the first step toward recovery is admitting there’s a problem.

Enablers have a slightly different approach to problem solving: denial, obfuscation and cover up at all costs. (more…)

Tennis is all about problem solving and Donna Fales has spent the better part of four decades searching out solutions on and off the court. (more…)

There’s an old adage in gaming circles — the house always wins. In tennis, where there mere mention of betting is a welcome as the prospect of rotator cuff surgery for the Statue of Liberty, this adage is particulary true if the house happens to be in Southern California and Hall of Famer Pancho Segura is the one occupying it. (more…)

In the pass-fail world of professional tennis, top players often arrive in the fall season feeling down a break.

It has become a familiar refrain over the years — as familiar as a Vincent Price film festival during Halloween or a chorus of out of tune revelers stumbling through Auld Lang Syne as if navigating a lyrical obstacle course after the ball drops on New Year’s Eve.  (more…)