Image is everything. That what's Andre Agassi told us from the start. It has been the headline to his career, his life.He went from the punk kid, all image and no substance, to the grown man philanthropist, creating, running and also raising funds for a charter school for disadvantaged kids.
He grew up so well, cleaned up so nicely, and won a humanitarian award in September at the U.S. Open. Now he comes back with this:
Agassi writes in his autobiography that he regularly used crystal meth on tour in 1997 when he was 27 years old. He failed the tennis tour's drug test, and then lied his way out of it by saying he had accidentally taken a drink from a glass of his assistant who, he said, used to spike his own drinks with the drug.
Why, Andre? Why did you do it? Why did you feel the need to say it? What happens to your image now?
Andre Agassi's new book, OPEN is due out in stores on Nov. 9. There's been relatively little fanfare about the book's release. That all changed Tuesday with a (now deleted) tweet from SI's Richard Deitsch, which was 
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas ... unless the New York Post's "spies" or "sources" or "whatever the hell they want to call them" are on hand. And in fact they apparently were there when "tennis ace" (HA) 
Is there anything hotter than complaining about grunting in women's tennis right now? First you have 
Grunting, for lack of a better word, in women's tennis doesn't bother me; it's an obvious sign of physical exertion and I may or may not find it attractive. But I'm not everyone, and I'm certainly not former Wimbledon champ 
