There is no greater costume change in tennis than going from Wimbledon whites to black tie, and never before have so many British players walked the purple carpet into the Champions Dinner.Based on the number of British winners, Andy Murray was undoubtedly correct when he described Sunday as the greatest day in the history of British tennis. Murray might have buried his head in a towel after defeating Milos Raonic to score his second Wimbledon title and third Grand Slam, but he plainly wasnt the only British player who experienced high emotion and then had to find some party clothes.Among the British winners was Heather Watson who, playing alongside Finlands Henri Kontinen, claimed the mixed doubles title for what was her first Grand Slam. She also became the first British woman since Jo Durie in 1987 to hold a Wimbledon doubles title.History was also made by Gordon Reid, who won the inaugural wheelchair mens singles title, a day after he and fellow Briton Alfie Hewett had taken the wheelchair doubles title. Jordanne Whiley was another British champion as she combined with Japans Yui Kamiji to take the wheelchair womens doubles title for a third successive year.Still, for all the joy and euphoria of prize-giving weekend, and for all the mid-tournament fun of qualifier Marcus Willis playing Roger Federer in the second round, or Dan Evans encountering the Swiss a round later, lets not imagine that British tennis is in perfect health.The true test of Willis ability and character will come when the new world No. 418 (he has climbed 354 places in the rankings) returns to the grind of playing third-tier tournaments in front of single-digit crowds -- as far removed as possible from the experience of facing Federer in front of 15,000 spectators on Centre Court. And can Evans, now up to a career high of 73 in the rankings, play at a consistently high level for the rest of the summer and then until the end of the season?Consider how Watson, despite her success in the mixed doubles, had a horrible first-round defeat in the womens singles after failing to close out match points, with that calamity made even worse by the $12,000 fine she received for bashing her racket on the grass (that would turn out to be the biggest fine for any player during The Championships).Jo Konta, who was the first British woman since the 1980s to be seeded in the womens singles draw, lost in the second round, though she was a little unfortunate to have had played Canadas Eugenie Bouchard, a former finalist.Also unlucky with her draw was Laura Robson, who was paired in the opening round with Angelique Kerber, the eventual finalist, with the former girls champion unable to threaten the German as she won just four games during her straight-sets defeat.While Kyle Edmund is now a top-100 player, he is yet to win a set in the main draw at the All England Club, after four defeats in the opening round at The Championships during his career. Unlike, say, British wild card James Ward, who drew Novak Djokovic in the first round, Edmund had what appeared to be a winnable match against Frances Adrian Mannarino. At the very least, you would have expected him to have won a set.This was Jamie Murrays first Wimbledon as the doubles world No. 1, but it didnt work out as planned with he and his Brazilian partner, Bruno Soares, going no further than the quarterfinals. Only one British girl or boy -- Gabriella Taylor -- made it through to the quarterfinals of the junior singles events, and she was forced into retiring from her match through illness, and was later taken to intensive care.With Andy Murray saying on Monday it is highly unlikely he will compete in Britains Davis Cup quarterfinal against Serbia, the tie will be an opportunity for Britains B-team to show what they can do on a (clay) tennis court. 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CHICAGO -- The Chicago Cubs are trying to do something that hasnt happened in the lifetime of anyone born in the last 108 years: win a World Series.So naturally, the chance to be part of that history has prompted people who live in Chicago, once lived in Chicago or just rooted for the Cubs from miles away to descend on Wrigley Field or tune in on television.If you didnt know Chicago was once home to scores of celebrities, you do after tuning into the game. Broadcasts have shown actor Bill Murray, delirious with joy, in the middle of a throng of fans that included John Cusack, an actor who has long rooted for the Cubs, and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder, who turned his love for the Cubs into a song, Someday Well Go All The Way.Here, then, are some Cubs fans who are better known for what they do for a living than who they root for.---BOB NEWHARTChicago native Bob Newhart has been posing with the teams signature W for win flag in pictures on his Twitter account during the playoffs.The 87-year-old comedian said his first memory of going to a Cubs game was with his mother at age 6 or 7. He was 16 when he went to Chicagos LaSalle Street to cheer the Cubs as they were welcomed home after winning the National League pennant in 1945. The Cubs went on to lose the World Series to the Detroit Tigers and havent been back since.So why remain a Cubs fan?I guess Im not easily dissuaded, Newhart said. I used to say Im a Cub fan in my stand up because it kind of prepared you for life, you knew you were ahead and you knew you were going to blow it somehow. Thats a lesson all Cub fans shared until this year.Newhart went to Game 3 of the NLCS with his grandson on Tuesday. He said he hopes his Cubs fandom continues in his family.Im deathly afraid that its going to die with me because my grandchildren are Dodger fans, he said. Ive got to leave it to somebody to continue the fight.---GEORGE WILLPolitical commentator George Will cant explain why he started rooting for the Cubs as a little boy.I grew up in Champaign, midway between Chicago and St. Louis, he said. My friends became Cardinals fans and grew up cheerful and liberal and I, for reasons I dont understand, became a Cubs fan.Today, Will is certainly in a little better mood than Cardinals fans, whose team didnt even make the playoffs. But not by much.I was at the Bartman game, he said of the 2003 playoff game where a fan named Steve Bartman deflected a foul ball that seemed destined for Cubs outfielder Moises Alous glove just before the team -- and its chances to reach the World Series for the first time since 1945 -- disintegrated. So I am always nervous.Will is known best for writing about politics. But he has also written extensively about baseball, including a book about the home of the Cubs, A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley at One Hundred, which is a long way of saying hes seen a lot of baseball and a lot of Cubs baseball.All of which is to say he knows two things: That the Cubs are the best team in baseball and that the best teaam in baseball does not always win in the playoffs.ddddddddddddHe also knows that even if the Cubs do survive this series against the Los Angeles Dodgers and reach the World Series, it might just delay the agony of the fans of a team that hasnt won the World Series since 1908.If the baseball gods are as diabolical as I think they are, theyve set it up for the Cubs to lose to Cleveland, he said. How vicious can they be?---JOE MANTEGNAActor Joe Mantegna, 68, is hoping his 101-year-old mother can see a Cubs win this year.It would be nice to see her celebrate a victory, he said. She was born in 1915 so the Cubs hadnt won for six years when she was born.Mantegna, known for roles in The Godfather: Part III and on the TV series Criminal Minds, grew up in Chicago going to Cubs games. Theres even a black-and-white picture of him sitting in front of a television watching a Cubs game, he said.One summer I went to 10 games and they lost all 10, he said. I really thought I was the reason they were losing. Thats what Cub fever will do to you.---NICK OFFERMAN and STEPHEN COLBERTParks and Recreation star Nick Offerman , a Cubs fan born in Joliet, Illinois, appeared on The Late Show on Tuesday with host Stephen Colbert -- also a Cubs fan.The banter:Colbert: Im a Cubs fan, youre a Cubs fan ... how are you handling the stress?Offerman: `I have a compartmentalization system. When I auditioned for the role of `Ron Swanson (on Parks and Recreation) it took five months to get the job so for that five months I had to put that information in this drawer thats not attached to emotion. So I know that something might happen in the coming weeks that would be very good for my baseball team, but Im not attaching emotion to it.Colbert: When do you attach the emotion to it? Youve loved and lost is what youre saying and now youre afraid to feel?Offerman: I suppose so. Ive become inured to feeling.---SARA PARETSKYNovelist Sara Paretsky traces her devotion to the Cubs to the day she heard about a young man who had shoveled the sidewalk in front of the home of a woman and her mother -- a man who turned out to be the Cubs first baseman at the time, Bill Buckner. The way Paretsky, a casual Cubs fan at the time, figured it, any team that had a player who helped a couple of women for no other reason than to be neighborly deserved her devotion.Now as the team that won more games than any other in the majors is in a position to reach the World Series for the first time since Harry Truman was president, Paretsky is, of course, distraught.I thought I had protected myself emotionally, but I realized this morning I am already in mourning, she said Wednesday, the day after the Cubs were shut out for the second straight game in the NL Championship Series.---Follow Caryn Rousseau on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/carynrousseau---This story has been corrected to Detroit Tigers in the sixth paragraph. Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys Jerseys From China Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping Wholesale Nike NFL Jerseys China Jerseys Wholesale Cheap Jerseys Stitched Jerseys ' ' '