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...trouble with sports is, if you're not Anna Kournikova, you've got to keep winning, and as the pre-Olympic World Cup campaign wore on, Jean & Jen didn't. Or was it just Jen who wasn't pushing her weight? The brakeman's job in a two-person sled is primarily to propel the sled at the start. Go a tenth of a second too slow in this 50-m run-up, and you're a loser. Jean & Jen finished third in one race, out of the medals in all others, as Germans swarmed the podium. Racine told Davidson...
...pregnant," he said in a statement issued to newspapers. "It was her choice to be a single mother." Bing--dubbed Bing Laden by Hurley pals--added gallantly, "If indeed I am the father, I will be an extremely involved and responsible parent." This was worse than the time Anna Kournikova called Hurley ugly. Worse than losing her role as the star face of Estee Lauder to a younger model. Worse, even, than starring in Bedazzled. "I loved Stephen enormously during the 18 months we were together," was Liz's rejoinder. "I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout...
...amazing backbiting between players, but, without ever saying it, the grueling monotony and loneliness of being an itinerant athlete. But he also fits in the drama of a play-by-play and the tension of the locker room. And he includes priceless bits of Anna-tude, like when Kournikova, at a Wimbledon press conference sponsored by Berlei bras, which endorses her, responded to a question about her engagement with "My private life is private. I'm here to talk about my bras...
...Serena? Sure, of course. You shoulda seen her dress this year! Cut down to there and up to there and with those big swirls that swirl up and around her you-know- what's! Take that, little Miss Kournikova...
Even though the women players have better Q ratings than the guys, they still aren't getting the same kind of sponsorship deals. And, according to Forbes, none of the women--not even Kournikova--gets as much in endorsement cash as Andre Agassi. "Who's running the game? Men," says Navratilova. "How many men are going to step up to the plate for women? Not very many. It's Madison Avenue. The money will first go to the men, and if money is left over, it goes to us." It's more complicated than that. "There's not too many...