Writing the Pine

Thoughts on Andre Agassi…

I haven’t yet read Andre Agassi’s tell-all saga, but by all accounts it is an incredibly revealing book about his self-destruction into crystal meth addiction, his tumultuous and public relationship (and nasty break-up) with Brooke Shields, and his abusive relationship with his father who trained him as a child. I don’t really care about the [...]

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Move Over Pete, Roger Federer Is Now the Best Ever

Photo Credit: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images I’m not a crazy tennis fan.  I watch here and there, definitely the major tournaments and some of the smaller ones when they are on and I have since I was a little kid.  I saw all the players growing up: Becker, Edberg, Chang, Lendl, and of course Sampras and Agassi.  [...]

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