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...ANDRE AGASSI...
...Barbra Streisand embracing the efforts of Andre Agassi at the U.S. Open, before he threw his racquet while losing to Jim Courier in four sets...
Courier's muted style is most striking in contrast to the sport's Las Vegas running rebel, Andre Agassi, a model of meticulously manicured grubbiness . whose endorsement career is tied to the unconsciously self-damning phrase "Image is everything." Courier's image is Everyman. Agassi has devoted himself to becoming a teen idol, in the process stirring more talk about his hairdos and haberdashery than about his serves and volleys. When reporters mention Agassi's millions from endorsement deals, Courier replies that he can make plenty wielding a racquet. Not that he is ruling out any options -- he has just...
Half a dozen years back, Courier and Agassi were roommates at Nick Bollettieri's tennis camp in Bradenton, Fla. Courier left, griping that the flashy Agassi was getting more attention from owner Bollettieri. Courier, the slow but steady type, won the Orange Bowl, a junior tournament, at 16. But he didn't win a pro-tour event until 1989 and didn't add another victory until just 11 months ago, at Indian Wells, Calif. Meanwhile, his agemates Michael Chang and Pete Sampras had joined Agassi in surging ahead. A year and a half ago, when asked to rank...
...small revolutionary company becomes a large and conservative one. Even now that Nike is a corporate giant, it still fosters the image of irreverent hipness with its striking advertising and superstar endorsers: the magical Michael Jordan, the bodacious Bo Jackson and those rebels with racquets, John McEnroe and Andre Agassi. The authors tell this tale with a mixture of gee-whiz cheerleading and nostalgic regret. (Strasser is the wife of an ex-Nike executive; Becklund is her sister and a writer at the Los Angeles Times...