Aug. 19: It was the beginning of a tense, messy second set between Jennifer Capriati and Serena Williams in the finals of the Rogers AT&T Cup in Toronto, and those old pros Pam Shriver and Mary Joe Fernandez were calling the match on ESPN2. They sounded a bit precious and monotone, like the Saturday Night Read More
Venus Envy: A Sensational Season Inside the Women’s Tour , by L. Jon Wertheim. HarperCollins, 225 pages, $25.
Why would L. Jon Wertheim write a book about the women’s tennis tour, a group top-heavy with brilliant and fascinating players, and give it the sexy but ultimately misleading title Venus Envy ? I must begin my Read More
Timothy McVeigh is dead. Has justice been done? The President thinks so, and so do many of the parents and family members who lost loved ones in the odious crime McVeigh committed in Oklahoma City. There are no doubts about his guilt; McVeigh was unrepentant. He was the perfect case for those who favor state-sponsored Read More
