In the spring of 07 the US played Spain in a Davis Cup quarterfinal tie here in Winston-Salem.  The US won and then went on to win the Cup itself in December.  It seems the Cup, the actual physical Cup, is on a Victory Tour and today it’s in Winston-Salem.  If you hurry you can see it at the Ski & Tennis Station on Stratford Road until 4:30 today.  You can also see it at the Joel Coliseum during the BYU-Wake Forest basketball game tonight.

Celeste and I had lunch at Mayberry’s and then toddled on over to see the thing at the Ski & Tennis Station.  It’s huge and it’s fun to look at the inscriptions from the ties that were played literally decades ago.  I took particular pleasure in looking at the ties from the 60s that featured the great Australian teams with players like Stolle, Emerson, Newcombe and Roach.  Of course I was looking for the American teams to, but since it started to get crowded with people wanting to take their picture with the Cup I needed to get out of the way before I found them.