Here's the latest from London to Toronto, with a not-quite-Olympian "featured" at the end. Enjoy.
SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED: Andy Murray has cemented his place in British society with his very own stamp. His mum Judy Murray fittingly announced the news. See it here. The Spin is no source for stamp critiques, although its keeper formerly collected in them another life (a.k.a. an ultra-nerdy childhood), but says here that the plum background and overall composition of the postal piece is elegant. Now the lowbrow take on it: Wow, Murray's forearm veins are popping.
LET'S GET PHYSICAL: Jockeying for position hardly happens just in the tennis rankings. Check out this well done piece in the New York Times.
YOUR TURN: What Olympic sport do you most enjoy watching when the tennis is over? Spin says: gymnastics. Or just about anything elevated above what the New York Times notes is an obvious Olympic pastime of late:national whining. Tweet me with your answer or leave it in the comment section below this column, and I'll highlight what I find to be the most witty and/or pithy response about a reader's other beloved sport in my next post.
PARTING SHOT: Of course there are the Olympic-level golden men and women (Murray, Bob Bryan, Mike Bryan, and Max Mirnyi among them) ... and then there are the also rans among us. Poor guy: