IS BUYING CROSS-COUNTRY SKIS
The information was confirmed by the director of media relations at Knopf, a division of Random House which is publishing the book, according to a report in the New York Daily News. It was first publicized widely by Sports Illustrated writer Richard Deitsch in a Twitter post.
The Daily News said that the year was 1997.
"FYI: There's an off-the-charts book excerpt from Andre Agassi in the forthcoming SI: He admits to taking crystal meth during his career," Deitsch wrote yesterday morning. The post was later deleted. The excerpt of the book is due out later this week in Sports Illustrated and People magazines.
Agassi had won the Olympic gold medal in the 1996 Atlanta Games, but didn't win a major in 1997. His next major came at the 1999 French Open. He won more than $30 million in his career, and eight major singles titles.
He is married to former Grand Slam champion Steffi Graf. The book, titled "Open: An Autobiography," is due out on Nov. 9.
In other tennis news:
* Serena Williams beat Svetlana Kuznetsova, 7-6 (6), 7-5 in the group stage of the WTA Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, Qatar. The win gives her a share of the lead in the Maroon Group with Elena Dementieva, who rallied from a set and a break down to beat defending champion Venus Williams, 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2.
* An attorney representing a woman who accused three Arkansas basketball players of rape is seeking a special prosecutor after local authorities in Fayetteville, Ark., chose not to file charges. Prosecutor John Threet says he does not object to the motion.
* Bob Knight has two more complaints with Indiana University: He didn't like the school making a private matter public, and he didn't want Indiana alumni footing the bill to settle a lawsuit. Yesterday, Knight released a statement saying he will return a $75,000 check sent last week by Indiana officials as a settlement offer.
* Israeli guard Nimrod Tishman is eligible to play for Florida. Coach Billy Donovan says the NCAA cleared Tishman, a 6-5 freshman from Tel Aviv, this week. He already had been cleared to practice.
* Theo Smalling, captain of Hampton University's team, has died from what police call an accidental shooting outside a nightclub. Police in Hampton, Va., said the Smalling, 22, was shot in the abdomen early Saturday in the parking lot of a nightclub after another man mishandled a firearm.
* The International Olympic Committee will convene a special conference of medical experts to draw up guidelines for dealing with "ambiguous" gender cases in the wake of South African runner Caster Semenya's sex-test controversy. IOC medical commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist told the Associated Press that his panel will organize a symposium in January to look at gender issues.
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