9:14AM
RealClearSports: Agassi Becomes an "Open" Book
9:14 AM
By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com
It was the great Jim Brown, arguably the finest of running backs, who when asked from the distance of retirement to analyze his career said a person should be occupied by things other than trying to judge his own importance.
Brown was of a different era, a different time, when sport and humility were interwoven. He ran for a touchdown, handed the ball to an official and moved to the sideline, without self-promotional gyrations. He performed. We cheered.
Andre Agassi was born in 1970, five years after Brown left the NFL, and the connection is that there's a disconnection, even if Agassi reached a point in his sport, tennis, that Brown reached in his, the top.
Read the full story here.
© RealClearSports 2009
For RealClearSports.com
It was the great Jim Brown, arguably the finest of running backs, who when asked from the distance of retirement to analyze his career said a person should be occupied by things other than trying to judge his own importance.
Brown was of a different era, a different time, when sport and humility were interwoven. He ran for a touchdown, handed the ball to an official and moved to the sideline, without self-promotional gyrations. He performed. We cheered.
Andre Agassi was born in 1970, five years after Brown left the NFL, and the connection is that there's a disconnection, even if Agassi reached a point in his sport, tennis, that Brown reached in his, the top.
Read the full story here.
© RealClearSports 2009
Reader Comments (1)
I appreciate your article on Agassi.
I don't understand why Agassi is now
revealing he used meth, and what he
wants to accomplish by telling us
that. I might be missing something;
but why would you tell people you used
drugs and then end the message there?
Wouldn't you convey it with the hope
it might help especially young athletes
by telling more, like advocating WHY
you should not make the mistake, also?
What good is the information? It seems
an incomplete effort, just saying "I used
meth". I kinda wanna say, "yeah; so ????
and you're saying this because...why?"
I havent' read the book; but saw him
interviewed on tv. I hope in his book he
goes on to make the story convince others
the magnitude of the bad choice meth was,
and WHY.