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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 ...
Roger Federer Reaches Milestone of 900 Career Tour-Level Matches
By Hal Spivack - AOL NewsRoger Federer became the first active ATP player to play in 900 tour-level matches on Thursday. The top-seeded, 16-time Grand Slam champion defeated American Taylor Dent, 6-1, 6-2, in just 50 minutes at the Stockholm Open in Sweden, logging his 727th ATP Tour victory in 900 total matches. What's even more impressive, the 29-year-old has never retired in any of the 900 matches, according to ATPWorldTour.com. And it's not the first milestone Federer has reached in Stockholm. His 100th career tour-level contest came the last time he played there in the 2000 season, ATP World Tour stat guru ...
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 ...
From the Baseline: US Men's Tennis Searching for Answers
By Knox Bardeen - AOL NewsEach Friday, From the Baseline serves up an inside look at tennis' hot topic of the week. With the final Grand Slam tournament of the season on American soil, this was supposed to be the time of year when U.S. tennis players and fans get a little payback. Over the summer, Americans watched their countrymen being abused on the "foreign" surfaces of clay and grass. It's not hard to imagine the American tennis community, even some of the players themselves, looking forward to a more favorable situation. Just wait until we get back to America, to those hard courts we love so much. The ...
From Spoiled to Rotten, the Story of American Men's Tennis
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsPete Sampras used to warn us: American tennis fans were spoiled. Well, no chance of that anymore. The era of American dominance on the men's tennis tour ended a few years ago, but on Monday, the era of American presence ended, too. Andy Roddick fell to No. 11 in the world rankings, leaving a grand total of zero American men in the top 10 for the first time since they started having computer rankings in 1973. Zero. And this hasn't been so much of a gradual fall-off as a nosedive off a cliff since Sampras beat Andre Agassi in the U.S. Open final in 2002. In eight years, we've gone from the ...
Roddick Battles Through Opening Round
By Hal Spivack - AOL NewsThe American men have been cursed on the red clay at Roland Garros for quite some time. The Stars and Stripes have not sent a player to the quarterfinals since Andre Agassi in 2003. What has been bad almost took a disastrous turn for the worse on Tuesday in Paris. The only conceivable hope the Americans have in getting to the quarterfinals this year is sixth-seeded Andy Roddick. He almost saw his French Open end in the opening round Tuesday. Roddick ultimately defeated the unseeded Finnish lefty, Jarkko Nieminen, in a demanding match 6-2, 4-6, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3. The 27-year-old Roddick who ...
Federer-Nadal Needs Synthetic Set-Up
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsThis can't be all we're going to get. The Roger Federer-Rafael Nadal rivalry isn't going down as one of tennis' all-time great rivalries, but instead as its greatest untapped resource. What kind of rivalry is it when the people involved never play each other? Guess how many times Federer and Nadal have played each other since their classic Wimbledon final in July 2008, when Nadal won and tennis was a mainstream sport for an afternoon, and maybe for another day of office discussion. Twice. In nearly 21 months. The sport has benefited some. Federer was elevated into the mainstream and is no ...
The SportsLodge: Charity Debacle, Jerry Jones, Duke Madness
By FanHouse TV - AOL News"The SportsLodge" tees off on the Agassi/Sampras debacle, the fact that Duke shouldn't be a No. 1 seed and Jerry Jones as the new King of Boxing. ...
Agassi Apologizes for Charity Feud
By FanHouse Newswire - AOL NewsINDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) -- Andre Agassi told ESPN.com he was "out of line" and apologized for poking fun at Pete Sampras during a charity match last week.Longtime rivals Agassi and Sampras were wearing microphones during the match, and the crowd at Indian Wells Tennis Garden in California got an earful during an exchange that started lighthearted but turned testy.At one point Sampras mimicked Agassi's pigeon-toed walk, which drew laughs from the crowd.Then Agassi chided Sampras for being stingy. In his book, Agassi criticized Sampras for being a poor tipper.Sampras responded with a high, ...
Agassi, Sampras Wear Blame, Shame
By Greg Couch - AOL NewsINDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- When it was over, and Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi had finished embarrassing themselves, embarrassing tennis by turning a charity event for a country with a quarter of a million dead into a playground to settle their little scores and resolve their little hurt feelings, apparently they were sent to their rooms. They are still there, huffing and puffing, arms-crossed with their bottom lips sticking out. They didn't show up for the post-event press conference to talk about Haiti, and they still haven't emerged. How is it possible that neither of these guys has had the ...
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