![]() Whoever thought McEnroe would succeed in that position is the kind of person who would ask Bob Knight to coach the Olympic team.Īs if Congress can't find enough ways to waste time and taxpayers' money, Sen. ![]() Publicly questioning Pete Sampras' integrity - hey, there's a terrific way to put the press on your side. tennis player into feeling guilty about not playing on the Davis Cup team represented anything besides ego and a stage for him to constantly display his own childish temper, it wasn't in evidence. If McEnroe's motive behind bullying every major U.S. What I want to say something about is the plethora of "John fought the good fight" and "McEnroe's heart was in the right place" editorials. I don't give a damn about the Davis Cup it can fade away and be replaced by monster truck racing for all I care, and everyone else in the world - including the top tennis players, to judge by their attendance - feels the same way. Well, actually, I don't have anything to say. Regarding John McEnroe's resignation last week as Davis Cup captain, I have to say. What is Anna going to be doing two years from now? My bets: the autograph circuit and a syndicated talk show, "Anna's Maniacs." Williams would scream racism if the WTA actually started paying such fees and Anna, perhaps the world's 23rd best female tennis player, got more money than his daughters? Last week I wrote about the increasing pressure Venus and Serena Williams and their father, Richard, are putting on the World Tennis Association for appearance fees. Writing about the Chase championship, he said: "Anyone who suggested that the Garden would host her coming out party didn't seem to understand that Anna is to tennis what Britney Spears is to music." Damn, wish I'd said that.īy the way, this is the woman who saw Elizabeth Hurley at Wimbledon and thought she was "ugly." Maybe Anna's problem is poor eyesight? John crystallized my point of view last week in the Village Voice. Deford shares Anna's view of herself that people only think she's beautiful because she's such a renowned tennis player: "If Catherine Zeta-Jones were still a shop girl in Wales, how many people would look at her in quite the same way as they do now that she is a movie star?" Uh, Frank, if people who saw her as a shop girl in Wales saw her that way, she wouldn't have gotten out of the shop and become a movie star. Myself, I just don't get it with Anna on or off the court I could flip through a selection of TV game-show hostesses and find someone more worthy of my attention. Maybe she just got too used to reading puff profiles like Deford's. "Anna is that kind of gorgeous," gushed Deford, "and Anna knows it." Well, maybe yes and maybe no. I've been trying to get a hook on mediocre tennis player Anne Kournikova ever since Frank Deford's smarmy cover piece in Sports Illustrated in June.
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