Top Spin Blog » Agassi crystal meth http://www.topspinblog.com Tennis Blog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:54:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Agassi’s Grudge List: Dad, Bolletttieri, Sampras http://www.topspinblog.com/2009/11/agassis-grudge-list-dad-bolletttieri-sampras/ http://www.topspinblog.com/2009/11/agassis-grudge-list-dad-bolletttieri-sampras/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:08:29 +0000 Joe Samuel Starnes http://www.topspinblog.com/?p=1142 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Beyond the stories of crystal meth and his mullet toupee, here is the serious tennis fan’s summary of what Andre has to say:  His dad was an insane tyrant (this is the most convincing, believable part of the book); Nick Bollettieri took over as warden/slave driver (and doesn’t really know jack about tennis strategy or coaching); Pete Sampras is dull and stingy (even as he drubbed him in all the big Grand Slam matches); and Andre’s gushy love for Steffi Graf is mildly nauseating (bringing to mind the Drive by Trucker’s song, “Don’t Be in Love Around Me.”) For you celebrity obsessed, by the way, the relationship with Barbra Streisand, 28 years his senior, was platonic (he says); the least surprising information is that Brooke Shields was a shallow, solipsistic actress who didn’t care about his career.

Unlike all other sports biographies that give the ghostwriter credit for transcribing the recorded interviews and molding it into a book, Agassi instead takes a standalone byline.   But J.R. Moehringer’s literary stamp, whom Agassi gives a cursory thank you in the acknowledgements, is all over this memoir, according to an excellent review by Janet Maslin in today’s New York Times.   Whatever you say about it, on day one the $5 million presidential level advance is paying off thus far.  It sits at #4 on the Amazon top seller list  (one spot behind Sarah Palin’s still unrealeased book) as of this writing.

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]]> http://www.topspinblog.com/2009/11/agassis-grudge-list-dad-bolletttieri-sampras/feed/ 4 Is Agassi Crystal Meth Confession Really a Huge Surprise? http://www.topspinblog.com/2009/10/is-agassi-crystal-meth-confession-really-a-huge-surprise/ http://www.topspinblog.com/2009/10/is-agassi-crystal-meth-confession-really-a-huge-surprise/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:12:54 +0000 Joe Samuel Starnes http://www.topspinblog.com/?p=1137 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> The tennis world, including Roger Federer, professed to be shocked this week at the Agassi revelation that he used crystal meth in 1997 and then lied his way out of an ATP suspension, only two years before completing the career Grand Slam by winning the French Open.  Agassi transformed over the years into a warrior and one of the game’s most upstanding and charitable citizens, but is it really a big surprise that a Las Vegas-raised dude who once played matches in denim tennis shorts over hot pink spandex and styled his hair like he was in Mötley Crüe might have smoked a little something highly illegal now and again? 

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