By
Richard Osborn
LOSERS
PAT
CASH: Former Wimbledon champ lectures Americans on Sept.
11 terrorist attacks, saying, "Welcome to the real world,
America. Most people realize you're not isolated from the rest
of the world. It's always been a common joke that America is
a different world. You call baseball's (championships) the World
Series, yet you're (just) one country. … I've done some charity
work around the world.
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like 20,000 to 30,000 people died in India this year. I don't
know if you heard about that in the newspapers. A few thousand
people die because of tragic circumstances, but I'm going to
India. I raise money for street children who are raped and murdered
every day in Calcutta. There's about 100,000 of them out there.
I try and educate them, try and get them food and put clothes
on their backs. A million people died in Ethiopia the last couple
of years – did
you hear about that? There are a lot of other tragedies going
around."
KIMBERLY
PO: Southern Californian cashes in U.S. citizenship for
temporary Swiss status at Swisscom Challenge in Zurich. Gutless.
UZBEK
TV: Uzbekistan's state-run TV refuses to break away from
coverage of ATP's President's Cup on Sept. 11. Images of WTC
and Pentagon disasters aren't seen until the following day.
And we thought censorship came down with the Iron Curtain.
WINNERS
JOHN
MCENROE: A New Yorker's New Yorker, Mac visits Ground Zero
twice, praising effort of police and fire department. "When
two or three fireman put up the flag amidst the rubble – that
brought chills to everybody's spine. Under a terrific set of
circumstances, people were still thinking about our country.
I'm biased, but our flag is the most beautiful." Well,
if Giuliani can't run again, maybe …
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ANDRE
& STEFFI: Wedding on Oct. 22, baby on Oct. 27. What
a week! Now, if we could just figure out how to bottle those
tennis genes.
ANDY
RODDICK, JAMES BLAKE: Youth movement carries Stars and Stripes
in Sampras and Agassi's absence as U.S. holds off India in Davis
Cup tie. Maybe we can win without the Old Guard.
USTA:
American tennis' governing body takes lead over NBA, NFL, NHL,
MLB, ATP and WTA in putting U.S. Open proceeds to good use.
Sends $1 million to WTC disaster relief. Nice move.
Richard
Osborn is the associate editor of Inside Tennis.
