Andre has been on the interview circuit but there still hasn't been one useful interview. They ask about his hair,  his clothes, his marriage to Brooke but never anything about tennis. The networks must think that the only thing anyone cares about is gossip and makeup. The only people who will turn on the interview are tennis players and ...

Nike pays Serena a fortune to wear their clothes so I don't see where the no respect notion comes from. Wherever she plays she is featured in the advertising. She's not exactly the Rodney Dangerfield of tennis getting no respect.

They spend enormous amounts of time on Britney Spears but nothing on anything else and then they give eachother awards. That's the news media today.

60 Minutes has two styles of interview. When they interview celebrities they swoon and gush all over them. When they find some two bit used car salesman who turned back the odometer they go into their tough guy interview routine. It has been years since anyone on 60 Minutes did any actual reporting. They have been driving on gas fumes for ...

CBS has transformed all of its programming into the Oprah show. They have given up attracting any male viewers for anything except NFL football on Sunday afternoon. They figure their only hope to survive is to attract Oprah's audience and give advertisers a niche audience. They would not allow any tennis questions for Andre on 60 Minutes ...

There's a book about 1980s tennis called Short Circuit by Micahel Memshaw. I think it's out of print but it might be available from the vendors on amazon.com. I remember it as one of the better books about tennis. Jim Bouton wrote a book a few years ago about trying to buy a minor league team. He self published it and it's quite entertaining ...

They usually only punish the little guys. A top player gets a slap on the wrist. A little fish gets the electric chair at Sing Sing. If a Challenger player said someone put crystal meth in my Diet Coke the testers would laugh him out of drug court. If a Wimbledon winner says it, they nod and say ''those things can happen. Case ...

Andre is booked on lots of talk shows this week so his tale of drug use has been quite effective in getting him on television. Sampras, who has no known history of any form of substance abuse, couldn't get booked anywhere when he was promoting his book. The message is if you want to sell books you better break a law or do something really ...

A Challenger player would never get away with a tale of a spiked soda that turned out to be crystal meth. A Wimbledon winner can get away with that whopper.

The best sports book I've ever read is Jim Bouton's Ball Four. It is a clssic. Nothing will ever top it.For pre-Open tennis Jack Kramer's book is quite good and Gordon Forbes book A handful of Summers is very good. Also Drobney's Champion in Exile and Little Pancho about Segura are good although Little Pancho has some glaring factual errors that ...