Andre Agassi News

Posted Nov 10th 2009 8:03AM by Bob Sassone Filed under: News , Celebrities , Reality-Free When CBS promoted the 60 Minutes interview with Andre Agassi that aired this past Sunday, they said that he was only talking to one person, Katie Couric, as if this was the only place you'd be able to hear Agassi talk about his new book and the revelations ...

Former No. 1-ranked Marat Safin believes that Andre Agassi should give his tennis titles back after confessing he tested positive for a banned substance during his career and lied about it to the ATP.

Andre Agassi has written a book with many familiar sports-memoir elements with an added twist: hatred for his sport, tennis.

Andre Agassi often says in "Open" that tennis is a lonely game. But the writing of this autobiography was a team sport.

The NYTimes has an interesting story about how the news of tennis great Andre Agassi 's admission of using crystal meth was revealed.

The last few days have been a time of great personal upheaval beginning, naturally, with the release of the Andre Agassi book, Open, which reveals, among other things, that the tennis great used crystal meth and, dear Lord, that the sexy lion mane he sported back in the 1990s was actually a wig.

I applaud your segment about Andre Agassi. I had a father like his who wanted me to be a doctor.

Amid Andre Agassi's self-serving revelations about drugs and his rivals, Geoff Dyer finds some thrilling insights into the game of tennis No love lost: Andre Agassi and Boris Becker at the 1990 US Open.

Plenty of tennis books to go around. Flickr Next Monday Andre Agassi's new book arrives in stores.

REVEALING ISSUES: Andre Agassi has emphatically denied rumours he took crystal meth - or P - while playing in an exclusive interview with Fairfax.

Hamburg - Andre Agassi has harmed the sport of tennis with his crystal meth drug use confession, German rival Boris Becker said.

By Bud Collins, courtesy of www.BudCollinsTennis.com , the official website of the Hall of Fame tennis personality and the world's most famous tennis historian.

Even Andre Agassi himself did not predict this kind of success from the pre-release promotional stunt for his book "Open," due to come out on November 9. Few excerpts of the book released to the media are meticulously chosen, including the crystal meth use and comments about his troublesome relationship with his father.

Eight-times grand slam winner Andre Agassi left the tennis world in a state of shock on Wednesday when he admitted using the recreational drug crystal meth and lying to men's governing body the ATP to escape a ban.

You might remember that ESPN awhile back ran a series centered on the Mt. Rushmore of Sports, ranking the most influential figures in each state's history.

Carrie Prejean is the queen of holier than thou. Dear Pinky, I heard Carrie Prejean has a sex tape.

A ruling on Serena Williams' U.S. Open tirade is expected in the next two weeks.

Just when you thought there weren't any more headlines in Andre Agassi's incendiary, engrossing and endlessly human autobiography, "Open", the hits keep on coming.

Tennis doesn't understand the idea of "absence makes the heart grow fonder" Andre Agassi admitted that his wig was falling off at the 1990 French Open final -- one of several revealing anecdotes from his book.

Saturday, October 31, 2009 LOS ANGELES: Andre Agassi's admission he used a banned drug in 1997 should serve as a wake-up call to the ATP that they need to act now before they are shamed into it as a result of a scandal, says Dick Pound.