Bath Shower Ha Na

MONTREAL — It was not quite 10 minutes after he had kissed the blue court, thanked the Montreal crowd and waved to his mother — who anxiously sat in the corner, behind the baseline and above the wall. It was not long after he’d left the court, to the kind of thunderous roar that Jarry Park had reserved for a Bill Stoneman no-hitter or Gary Carter home runs . It was not quite 11:00 on Thursday evening, after he’d passed the throng of hundreds waiting for him along the outdoor concourse, through a dark tunnel into an indoor building and a plush, empty, carpeted locker room . It was not quite 10 minutes after the greatest accomplishment of Denis Shapovalov’s young life that this 18-year-old stood shirtless in the middle of that locker room with his physiotherapist, Nick Martichenko, his coach, Martin Laurendeau, and Canadian Olympic doctor , Nick Sauve, and breathlessly wondered aloud , “What the hell just happened?” And nobody in the room could really answer his question. Canadian tennis...

Conor McGregor is making a lot of wise guys nervous in this gambling city. Should he somehow manage to knock out Floyd Mayweather Jr . in the early rounds Saturday night , the city's bookmakers would lose millions of dollars in the biggest single event loss in the history of sports betting . McGregor fans have flooded sports books with $100 bills backing the mixed martial arts fighter , and even a late surge of money on Mayweather might not be enough to balance the books. "I'm OK now," said William Hill oddsmaker Nick Bogdanovich . "But you might want to have a heart monitor on me when the bell rings and Conor starts throwing wild lefts ." Bogdanovich said his chain of sports books will suffer multimillion dollar losses — their worst ever — should McGregor win the fight in any fashion. If he wins early as he has promised, the losses would be even worse. The big bettors are putting their money on Mayweather, who is 49-0 as a pro. But so many McGregor fans...