Pete Alfano

No place like Texas for a Super show at halftime

Last updated Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 5:50pm

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Remember when it was a really big football game because the halftime entertainment consisted of the Grambling State Marching Band and a dance team like the Apache Belles from Tyler or Kilgore Rangerettes?

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(The Associated Press) Andrew Agassi hits a return during the final match against Argentina's Alberto Mancini at the Italian Open men's tennis championships in Rome in May 1989.

Agassi's positive drug test was a well-guarded secret at the ATP

Pete Alfano   McClatchy Newspapers
Last updated Monday, November 2, 2009 - 8:51pm

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A high-ranking ATP executive nodded toward me, indicating he had something to tell me in private. We walked to where we couldn't be heard and he said words to the effect that we had a major anti-doping violation on our hands.

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