Serena Williams

[Eddylove]

I want to do bad things to her. Giggity giggity.

[robin]

gross.

[SlipperyPete]

Personally I cant decide whether she is a gorilla or sexy beast

[Fuzzyxlogikk]

shes a black tarzan's jane

[chris@thegreek]

wait until she retires and hits 250 lb's then tell me u want to hit that,

[Pancho Sanza]

Serena's a whiner, Jordan was a winner

by Jason Whitlock

Jason Whitlock writes about the sports world from absolutely every angle, including angles other writers can't imagine or muster the courage to address. His columns are humorous, thought-provoking, agenda free, honest, unpredictable and uncomfortable for white and black people comfortable with their biases

Updated: September 14, 2009, 9:45 PM EDT 1151 comments
So Serena thinks we saw her passion for tennis Saturday night.

I saw cowardice.

I saw an oversized, underachieving loudmouth get smacked into reality by a just-out-of-retirement mom.

I saw the character flaw that prevents Serena Williams from taking her rightful place alongside Michael Jordan as one of the greatest champions of all time.

In an absolutely crazy, busy and fabulous sports weekend, two moments stood out: 1. Serena Williams' match-point meltdown in her U.S. Open semifinals clash with Kim Clijsters; 2. Michael Jordan's raw, in-your-face, take-no-prisoners Hall of Fame induction speech.

Serena and Jordan are both being crucified for their alleged classless behavior. Only one deserves it, the one who issued the gutless apology on Sunday.

"(Saturday) night everyone could truly see the passion I have for my job," Williams said in a press release. "Now that I have had time to gain my composure, I can see that while I don't agree with the unfair line call, in the heat of battle I let my passion and emotion get the better of me and as a result handled the situation poorly. I would like to thank my fans and supporters for understanding that I am human and I look forward to continuing the journey, both professionally and personally, with you all as I move forward and grow from this experience."

Do you see the words "I'm sorry" in any of that? What you see is one last potshot at the line judge who had the audacity to follow the rules. You also don't see any recognition that Serena comprehends her threats to shove a ball down the throat of a woman half her size overshadowed the remarkable performance of her opponent.

But we've grown used to Serena belittling her competition.

Serena has been so emotionally coddled and crippled by her enablers, including irresponsible and irrational television commentator John McEnroe, that she mistakes embarrassing displays of poor sportsmanship as passion and competitive fire.

Someone get her a copy of Jordan's Hall of Fame speech.

Jordan's rambling and possibly cocktail-inspired acceptance rant has been misinterpreted by the media. We didn't like it. It wasn't gracious or spiced with false humility. Jordan declined the high road and traveled the bone honest one.

In graphic detail, he explained the slights — real, exaggerated and imagined — that fueled his competitive fire. He gave us a peek behind the curtain, a look at what drove the greatest competitor in our lifetime. I overlooked his missteps. He's a basketball player, not a motivational speaker. He spoke without a map. His words were not measured or chosen to create the impression he was anything beyond a competitive son of a bitch.

Serena and many of her groupies see the foot-fault call that put Clijsters at match point as a continuation of the inherent racial bias that has plagued Serena's entire tennis career. And perhaps it is. Life is inherently unfair, and a country-club sport like tennis is more racially unfair than most.

How does a top competitor with limitless talent respond to unfairness?

Jordan chose to destroy his challengers and shame the people who propped them up with never-before-seen on-court excellence.

No doubt, racial bias played a role in Buzz Peterson being named North Carolina's high school player of the year over Jordan in 1981. Friday night, Jordan talked about how he roomed with Peterson at UNC and set out to prove Peterson's inferiority. Jordan said he didn't care about the infamous NBA All Star freeze-out allegedly orchestrated by Isiah Thomas and other black players. Jordan said the rumor only made him work harder to prove to his peers that he deserved the attention and acclaim he received at an early age.

Jordan took shots at the high school coach who didn't let him play varsity as a sophomore, Jerry Krause for valuing the franchise more than the players who powered the Bulls, Dean Smith for leaving him off a Sports Illustrated cover and Bryon Russell for daring to say he could defend Air Jordan.


Jordan wasn't a whiner. He was a competitor. He was old school, a reminder of the values that created the social progress and freedom too many black athletes now take for granted.

Kicking ass and taking names earns far more respect than take-my-ball-and-racket-go-home tantrums. No one respects a crybaby, especially one with more ability than everyone else.

Clijsters put a clown suit on Serena. Two-and-a-half years after retiring to have a baby and in her first major since her return, she wiped the court with the self-described No. 1 player. Rather than take her beating like a grown-ass woman, Serena first smashed her racket and then sacrificed match point with a ridiculous tirade directed at the line judge.

Everybody knows damn well Serena has no business losing a major to a baby's mama. And everyone knows damn well if Serena dropped 20 pounds and focused on her game, she'd be untouchable.

But rather than focus on her unrealized potential, McEnroe and Serena's other groupies want to pretend that calling a foot fault late in a match that Serena was clearly losing was some sort of hate crime worthy of Serena making a fool of herself.

The foot fault didn't cost Serena the U.S. Open. Just like nearly every other loss in her career, Serena's unwillingness to compete at her highest level led to the defeat.

You can e-mail Jason at BallState0@aol.com or find him on Facebook at facebook.com/jasonwhitlock.

Serena's a whiner, Jordan was a winner - Tennis News - FOX Sports on MSN

[howid]

roids rage

[Bostongambler]

Blackenroe.

[Dell Dude]

Since I'm getting slowpaid a dime payout by cw, howid about just paying me your cw settlement? I get paid, I'll make sure you go off stiff page and cw saves face.

[buffbetonsports]

Originally Posted by Bostongambler

Blackenroe.

Geezem Pete BG friggen killing me

[KoolPappy]

Glad to see her get her due!

[nostaw1952]

Originally Posted by Pancho Sanza

Serena's a whiner, Jordan was a winner

by Jason Whitlock

Jason Whitlock writes about the sports world from absolutely every angle, including angles other writers can't imagine or muster the courage to address. His columns are humorous, thought-provoking, agenda free, honest, unpredictable and uncomfortable for white and black people comfortable with their biases

Updated: September 14, 2009, 9:45 PM EDT 1151 comments
So Serena thinks we saw her passion for tennis Saturday night.

I saw cowardice.

I saw an oversized, underachieving loudmouth get smacked into reality by a just-out-of-retirement mom.

I saw the character flaw that prevents Serena Williams from taking her rightful place alongside Michael Jordan as one of the greatest champions of all time.

In an absolutely crazy, busy and fabulous sports weekend, two moments stood out: 1. Serena Williams' match-point meltdown in her U.S. Open semifinals clash with Kim Clijsters; 2. Michael Jordan's raw, in-your-face, take-no-prisoners Hall of Fame induction speech.

Serena and Jordan are both being crucified for their alleged classless behavior. Only one deserves it, the one who issued the gutless apology on Sunday.

"(Saturday) night everyone could truly see the passion I have for my job," Williams said in a press release. "Now that I have had time to gain my composure, I can see that while I don't agree with the unfair line call, in the heat of battle I let my passion and emotion get the better of me and as a result handled the situation poorly. I would like to thank my fans and supporters for understanding that I am human and I look forward to continuing the journey, both professionally and personally, with you all as I move forward and grow from this experience."

Do you see the words "I'm sorry" in any of that? What you see is one last potshot at the line judge who had the audacity to follow the rules. You also don't see any recognition that Serena comprehends her threats to shove a ball down the throat of a woman half her size overshadowed the remarkable performance of her opponent.

But we've grown used to Serena belittling her competition.

Serena has been so emotionally coddled and crippled by her enablers, including irresponsible and irrational television commentator John McEnroe, that she mistakes embarrassing displays of poor sportsmanship as passion and competitive fire.

Someone get her a copy of Jordan's Hall of Fame speech.

Jordan's rambling and possibly cocktail-inspired acceptance rant has been misinterpreted by the media. We didn't like it. It wasn't gracious or spiced with false humility. Jordan declined the high road and traveled the bone honest one.

In graphic detail, he explained the slights — real, exaggerated and imagined — that fueled his competitive fire. He gave us a peek behind the curtain, a look at what drove the greatest competitor in our lifetime. I overlooked his missteps. He's a basketball player, not a motivational speaker. He spoke without a map. His words were not measured or chosen to create the impression he was anything beyond a competitive son of a bitch.

Serena and many of her groupies see the foot-fault call that put Clijsters at match point as a continuation of the inherent racial bias that has plagued Serena's entire tennis career. And perhaps it is. Life is inherently unfair, and a country-club sport like tennis is more racially unfair than most.

How does a top competitor with limitless talent respond to unfairness?

Jordan chose to destroy his challengers and shame the people who propped them up with never-before-seen on-court excellence.

No doubt, racial bias played a role in Buzz Peterson being named North Carolina's high school player of the year over Jordan in 1981. Friday night, Jordan talked about how he roomed with Peterson at UNC and set out to prove Peterson's inferiority. Jordan said he didn't care about the infamous NBA All Star freeze-out allegedly orchestrated by Isiah Thomas and other black players. Jordan said the rumor only made him work harder to prove to his peers that he deserved the attention and acclaim he received at an early age.

Jordan took shots at the high school coach who didn't let him play varsity as a sophomore, Jerry Krause for valuing the franchise more than the players who powered the Bulls, Dean Smith for leaving him off a Sports Illustrated cover and Bryon Russell for daring to say he could defend Air Jordan.


Jordan wasn't a whiner. He was a competitor. He was old school, a reminder of the values that created the social progress and freedom too many black athletes now take for granted.

Kicking ass and taking names earns far more respect than take-my-ball-and-racket-go-home tantrums. No one respects a crybaby, especially one with more ability than everyone else.

Clijsters put a clown suit on Serena. Two-and-a-half years after retiring to have a baby and in her first major since her return, she wiped the court with the self-described No. 1 player. Rather than take her beating like a grown-ass woman, Serena first smashed her racket and then sacrificed match point with a ridiculous tirade directed at the line judge.

Everybody knows damn well Serena has no business losing a major to a baby's mama. And everyone knows damn well if Serena dropped 20 pounds and focused on her game, she'd be untouchable.

But rather than focus on her unrealized potential, McEnroe and Serena's other groupies want to pretend that calling a foot fault late in a match that Serena was clearly losing was some sort of hate crime worthy of Serena making a fool of herself.

The foot fault didn't cost Serena the U.S. Open. Just like nearly every other loss in her career, Serena's unwillingness to compete at her highest level led to the defeat.

You can e-mail Jason at BallState0@aol.com or find him on Facebook at facebook.com/jasonwhitlock.

Serena's a whiner, Jordan was a winner - Tennis News - FOX Sports on MSN

A guys who is about a biscuit shy of 4 bills in weight has got a lotta nerve calling somebody else "oversized." It wasn't the finest moment for either MJ or Serena, clearly. No matter what MJ says, he looks like he's still steaming over a fucking All Star game from a quarter of a century ago, and the remarks about the other people smack of the school's best jock bullying nerds. Let it go already, which is also my attitude towards the Serena stuff, people forget that the reason the Hawkeye Challenge system came about is that Serena was screwed over so badly by a chair ump, the ump in question was fired and not allowed to work at the US Open again until years later. She and her sister also got victimized each by an ump who forgot how many points they had in tiebreakers, so her paranoia about bad calls is at least partly understandable. She definitely went too far, but tallking about suspending her for either the next Slam, the Aussie Open, or next year's US Open is way out of line, IMO. McEnroe and Connors did way worse, but they're white men, as opposed to "uppidty" black women. Their father is a loon, but he was a guy who never played tennis, somehow coached them without going through the normal 12-and-under kiddie route, was laughed at for predicting that they would both eventually reach Number One, and people don't like being proven wrong about their sport, especially prominent people in that sport. Fuck that fat pig Witless Cock...

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The biggest choke in the history of sports, your 2004…NEW...YORK...YANKEES!!!

[Lake Monster]

Originally Posted by nostaw1952

McEnroe and Connors did way worse, but they're white men, as opposed to "uppidty" black women.

Please provide the link to a video where McEnroe and Connors threaten to kill somebody.

[Dell Dude]

You can't be SIRIUS nostool!

[nostaw1952]

Originally Posted by Lake Monster

Please provide the link to a video where McEnroe and Connors threaten to kill somebody.

Video links of McEnroe and especially Connors (who turned pro about '72 or so) are a little scarce, as I'm sure you were aware when you made that stupid ass statement. Nobody who is front of 23,000 people, not to mention millions world wide, feels "threatened" when such a statement is made in that setting, and, if you wanna be such a hair splitting douche, "I'd like to take this fucking ball and shove it down your fucking throat" is NOT a threat: she'd LIKE to do it, but certain pesky conventions exist, like attempted murder charges, so she COULDN'T do, hence, no threat. Personally, I think the chair judge who was called "an abortion" by Connors in his '91 match against Aaron Krickstein had a stronger beef than did that toad who, btw, made what most people agree was a bad call. Patrick McEnroe got booed when he tried to bring all that shit up again during the presentation of the championship trophy to Serena and Venus for winning the doubles two days later. Build a bridge and get the fuck over it...

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The biggest choke in the history of sports, your 2004…NEW...YORK...YANKEES!!!

[Lake Monster]

Originally Posted by nostaw1952

Video links of McEnroe and especially Connors (who turned pro about '72 or so) are a little scarce, as I'm sure you were aware when you made that stupid ass statement. Nobody who is front of 23,000 people, not to mention millions world wide, feels "threatened" when such a statement is made in that setting, and, if you wanna be such a hair splitting douche, "I'd like to take this fucking ball and shove it down your fucking throat" is NOT a threat: she'd LIKE to do it, but certain pesky conventions exist, like attempted murder charges, so she COULDN'T do, hence, no threat. Personally, I think the chair judge who was called "an abortion" by Connors in his '91 match against Aaron Krickstein had a stronger beef than did that toad who, btw, made what most people agree was a bad call. Patrick McEnroe got booed when he tried to bring all that shit up again during the presentation of the championship trophy to Serena and Venus for winning the doubles two days later. Build a bridge and get the fuck over it...

Looks like Serena Williams isn't the only one with anger management issues.

[Dell Dude]

NEW YORK -- Roger Federer has been fined $1,500 for using a profanity while arguing with the chair umpire during the U.S. Open final.

CBS microphones picked up the exchange during its live broadcast of the match.

CBS microphones picked up the exchange during its live broadcast of Monday's match.

Tournament spokesman Chris Widmaier says Federer is being docked the same amount as two other players -- Vera Zvonareva of Russia and Daniel Koellerer of Austria -- for audible obscenity.

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[SlipperyPete]

If you cant beat him, jinx him!!!

[Uncle B]

Originally Posted by Dell Dude

lol


that is assinine...they just tagged him with that shit to kill the 'racism' shit flyin now.