Cricket is enmeshed in the equivalent of a point-shaving scandal.
Even English world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis has failed to capture the national imagination. With no trace of irony, they show synchronized swimming on the ESPN cognate here. Against that backdrop, the bizarre and vaguely disturbing national phenomena known as Henmania becomes slightly more understandable. I boarded the Tube headed for Wimbledon the other day and struck up a conversation with another tennis fan, Barry Lockington, a commercial driver from London. Aside from the usual accoutrements for a day at the courts, Barry was toting a sleeping bag.