Sometimes things get said that just shouldn't be said. There were a lot of those situations last week.

• I found myself pulling a little more for Rafael Nadal to win Wimbledon than I did Roger Federer. Federer's act is starting to wear a little thin. It was OK before when he was very quiet and apparently humble about his dominance of men's tennis.

But now, he's a little too full of himself. The cardigan sweaters with "RF" monogrammed on them weirded me out a little. The same thing was true with Maria Sharapova's "tuxedo," but she wasn't in the tournament long enough for me to really notice.

Federer's comments also grated on me. Upon reaching the Wimbledon semifinals, he said we can pretty much pencil his name in that position for a long time.

"I'll have a chance to win this tournament for the next five or 10 years, you know," he said. "I think my game's made for grass. My dream is to not only win this year, but many more years to come."

Well, of course all that is true. It would just be better if he wasn't so blatant about it. It's much better if others said that, rather than him.

Even Sunday, after his epic, 4-hour, 48-minute loss to Nadal which will go down as probably the best in tennis history, Federer wasn't quite as completely gracious as he could've been.

He did pay compliments to Nadal, but Federer also complained about the darkness that grew as the final astoundingly finished at 9:15 p.m. London time.

"It would have been brutal for fans, for media, for us, for everybody to come back tomorrow, but what are you going to do?" Federer said. "It's rough on me now, obviously, to lose the biggest tournament in the world over maybe a bit of light."

It was just as dark on each side of the net.

• Seattle had its NBA team taken away last week in a move that was just unfair for its fans.

The SuperSonics will play in Oklahoma City next season after owner Clay Bennett reached a $75 million settlement with the city of Seattle. Bennett bought the Sonics in 2006 from Starbucks founder Howard Schultz. From the beginning, Bennett was seen as trying to move the team to his hometown all along instead of trying to find a way to keep it in Seattle, where it had been for 41 years.

"It was a tough experience for all of us that were involved in it," Bennett said. "There was just so much that happened on both sides, so much misinterpreted, miscommunicated and misunderstood that it was difficult."

Seattle does get to keep the "SuperSonics" name and team colors. Seattle hopes to attract another team to inhabit a refurbished KeyArena within five years.

• Fox announcer Joe Buck said on ESPN Radio last week he really doesn't watch much baseball.

"By the time you get to the sixth inning, if you're watching every minute, you put two-plus hours into the thing," Buck said. "It's just a lot to ask of people in this day and age as far as sitting down and watching a sporting event." Buck added, "That's just not part of my day, it's not part of my night, and I'll be honest with you, watching The Bachelorette' is."

Those comments, predictably, drew a lot of criticism since Buck is Fox's top baseball voice and often described as "the greatest announcer of his generation."

On Friday, the Miami Herald reported Buck had called baseball commissioner Bud Selig, Fox Sports chairman David Hill and president Ed Goren to apologize.

"It was a total joke," Buck told the Herald. "If it didn't come across as that, you fault the joke teller. Baseball has been my life (forever). I said it was wrong and I'm sorry and it won't happen again. I learned a valuable lesson. You have to be careful what you say and I was not careful."

Buck does very well on the air, but in interviews he has a tendency to be sarcastic. This time it was to a fault.

• Alex Rodriguez's wife is divorcing him, a fact that belongs more in the "People" section than in sports. Cynthia Rodriguez says her husband's extramarital affairs is the reason for the divorce.

One of the women A-Rod was linked with was Madonna, who denied any romantic involvement on the People.com Web site.

"I am not romantically involved in any way with Alex Rodriguez," she said. "I have nothing to do with the state of his marriage or what spiritual path he may choose to study."

Quite frankly, I doubt spirituality has anything to do with any of this.

— Jim Carlisle is a staff writer for The Star. E-mail address: jcarlisle@VenturaCountyStar.com.