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Andre Agassi Shows Naked Photo of Wife Steffi Graf for Charity
By Ryan Wilson - AOL NewsI never followed tennis closely but I've always been a huge Steffi Graf fan. So it was with great interest that I followed the story of Graf's husband and former tennis great Andre Agassi promising to show a naked photograph of his wife to the highest bidder. Out of context it sounds like something Brett Favre (allegedly) might say to a 20-something team employee with fake breasts. Or even words you might expect Agassi to utter back when he sported a frosted mullet and used crystal meth. In context it makes much more sense, and you might even call it funny. It all started with a tweet ...
Why Limit Super Pairings to Horses?
By Kevin Blackistone - AOL NewsTo Daniel Okrent -- whose identity as the inventor of rotisserie baseball is the one I'll use for this space -- the greatest baseball player ever was, unsurprisingly, Babe Ruth. It was Okrent's reasoning, which he conveyed in Ken Burns' epic television documentary "Baseball," that was refreshingly noteworthy. "He (Ruth) was also one of the greatest pitchers ever," Okrent reminded. "It is as if imagining that Beethoven and Cézanne were one person producing the same work." How about that? Two of the greatest artists combined to make one. Okrent's utterance popped to mind on Wednesday when it ...
In Women's Tennis, Rivalries Drying Up
By Milton Kent - AOL NewsOnce upon a time, women's tennis was loaded with rivalries. Every time you turned around, names you knew were meeting in the later rounds of Grand Slam play. There was some permutation of Margaret Court Smith, Evonne Goolagong, Chris Evert (pictured) and Martina Navratilova doing battle in the '70s and '80s. As Smith and Goolagong faded, Steffi Graf was added to the mix in the '80s and into the '90s, along came Lindsay Davenport and Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario. Next, Martina Hingis and Monica Seles, and into the new millennium, there were Justine Henin, Kim Clijsters and the Williams sisters. ...
Agassi, Sampras Feud at Charity Event
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsINDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Somebody take Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi out back and give them both a spanking.A quarter of a million people dead in Haiti, and Sampras and Agassi took a charity event to raise money for earthquake victims and turned it into a night about themselves and their stupid bickering over Agassi calling Sampras a bad tipper. For Pete's sake, what an embarrassment. "Wow, you got personal,'' Sampras said to Agassi, getting upset. "You got personal with me.'' "It's all fun and games,'' Agassi said, "until someone gets hurt.'' What the hell is the matter with these two? Let me ...
Zina Garrison Altered Thinking of Tennis World
By Terrance Harris - AOL NewsBlack History Month has been celebrated in some form since 1924. For sports fans, it is a chance to reacquaint themselves with those who broke down barriers in all areas of competition and all segments of society. Many are now household names and American icons: Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Wilma Rudolph, Muhammad Ali, up to Tiger Woods, Tony Dungy and Venus and Serena Williams today. Throughout February, FanHouse will shed light on the other figures in the history of sports whose breakthroughs were as significant as those mentioned above, but who aren't as instantly recognizable ...
Fit Serena Would Give Opponents Fits
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsJust mean it, Serena. Then, you'll do it. A few minutes after Serena Williams won the Australian Open, she said she had to figure out how to win more French Opens. It seems pretty obvious, really, why she has won just one: The French is on the slow, red clay and takes twice the conditioning and patience of other majors. Williams has made a career choice of not being fully in tennis shape, shortchanging her own legacy. So I asked her: What do you think it will take? "Honestly, I'm going to have to be more fit," she said. "I need to be more fit than I was in this tournament.'' Music. Ears. How ...
For Andre Agassi, Truth Is Everything
By Jay Mariotti - AOL NewsSo what do people want from their heroes, anyway: after-the-fact transparency or the perpetuation of fraud? Here we are, still wading through the slime of the Steroids Era, rightfully crucifying juicers for trying to hide behind walls of deceit. And yet, some of the same critics are pummeling Andre Agassi for volunteering 12 years after his sin -- when it would have been far more convenient to keep living the lie -- that he failed a drug test and deceived the ATP by writing a letter claiming he "unwittingly'' used crystal meth.The admission, in an autobiography called Open,' is crippling to ...
Fault: Andre Agassi's Meth Confession
By Domenica Marchetti - Politics DailyRidiculously, I feel betrayed by tennis star Andre Agassi's admission in his new autobiography that he used crystal methamphetamine in 1997, when his career was in the tank. The book, "Open," doesn't come out until next month, but is being excerpted in The Times of London Wednesday and Thursday. In his book, Agassi reveals that he took the drug in his home with his assistant, and then lied to the Association of Tennis Professionals about it to protect his career. I'm not even sure why I feel bad. For most of the years that he played I never even liked Agassi -- I was a "Pistol" Pete Sampras ...
Is Serena Bringing Down Venus' Legacy?
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsVenus is not Serena. They don't dress alike, sound alike, play alike or look alike. They stand out alike, yes, because they are a novelty together, they are great and they are sisters.But we have combined them in every way for some obvious reasons, but frankly, that's not fair to Venus.Venus Williams is a better champion than Serena Williams. More elegant, more gracious.On Tuesday, Venus starts defense of her title at Wimbledon, where she has a royal feel. She is the queen. And in the most elegant place in tennis, Venus stands apart. Venus Advances at Wimbledon | Scores: Men | Women Why is ...
Tears in Melbourne: Nadal Beats Federer
By Mark Hasty - AOL NewsCue the misquotation of Tom Hanks: "There's no crying in tennis!"There was crying Sunday at the Australian Open, as Rafael Nadal continued his dominance of Roger Federer, winning a five-set Everlasting Gobstopper of a final, 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-2. Federer was emotional following the match, unable to keep from crying as Nadal soaked up the crowd's acclaim. Even Nadal was moved by Federer's anguish, offering a comforting shoulder and encouraging words to his greatest competitor. It was a touching scene, even if Federer was seeming to steal Nadal's moment. Then again, the moment belonged to ...
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