Finding that special someone can be hard even for athletes, so we …
Ah, it’s your wedding day.
Birds are chirping, the church is packed, the beaming bride walks down the aisle. You pucker your lips, lift her veil and it’s Dr. Laura.
The image may scare you into joining the priesthood, but it’s just what John Daly needs. He and other sports stars have turned to gambling, drinking, carousing, psychiatrists and pharmaceuticals to help their careers.
All they needed was an ideal mate. Of course, if finding one were easy, then 49 million people wouldn’t currently be lying about their height, weight and love of opera at Match.com.
Sports figures don’t usually have to resort to Internet dating, but finding a match is still hard. Joe DiMaggio’s hitting streak ended with Marilyn Monroe. Andre Agassi lost his match with Brooke Shields. Then he won with Steffi Graf, who until that time had only been in love with her backhand.
Some marriages you know are doomed (see: Mike Tyson and Robin Givens). Others you figure would last forever end up in People magazine.
Chris Evert was married for 18 years to ex-ski champ Andy Mill. Then one of Mill’s best friends intruded on the love match.
“Greg Norman at one time was my best friend,” Mill said. “I would have taken a bullet for this guy. But I didn’t realize he was the one who was going to pull the trigger.”
They don’t call him the Shark for nothing. Now Norman and Evert are engaged. All of which proves how uncertain the nuptial game can be.
Check that. We’re absolutely certain that somewhere David Justice is still kicking himself for blowing it with Halle Berry.
Anyway, the one thing most successful marriages have is teamwork. The players complement each other. His strengths are her weakness, and vice versa. Put the yin and yang together and they can live happily ever after.
Tags: clemens, daly, john, roger
May 1st, 2008 at 10:43 am
Me too. </snark>
May 1st, 2008 at 11:33 am
Last one out, please turn off the lights.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:24 pm
It’s a good question. Two points. 1) There’s a reasonable consensus in European countries that their cities are strategic resources that, if allowed to rot, will take the rest of the country with them. 2) Social justice is considered a national priority. Thus “white flight” makes no sense in the context of better schools, lower taxes, etc.These characteristics are not readily reproduced in the social /political climate of the US notwithstanding the fact that our very similar neighbor to the north has in these senses emulated Europe much more than the US.
May 1st, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Well, most of the cities in the Southeast are growing quickly Atlanta especially so. A lot of people are moving to the South because of the weather. Atlanta home prices are also reasonable and haven’t been affected by the housing bubble burst. There is also a lot of urban renewal. Also, a lot of big name companies are in Atlanta (Coca-Cola, Home Depot, UPS, Equifax, etc.) It also has the third most Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the city.Detroit’s economy is in the shitter because it grew large, but never diversified its economy in the process. It relied too much on the American auto industry that when the industry went down the toilet, so did Detroit.
May 1st, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Detroit got involved in a vicious cycle of “white flight” followed by blacks blaming whites for their problems, accurately or not.This was exacerbated by both the racism of the whites in the suburbs, and the racism of the blacks in the inner city (Longtime mayor Coleman Young was no pincic).If anything positive comes out of Detroit’s decline, hopefully it will be a better understanding of race relations.As a counterpoint, though, I was in Detroit a few times last week, and it felt very vibrant. Partly this was because I was in different parts, but it really felt different than the last few times I visited.
May 1st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
well, their racism kicks in on this one so it’s easy for them, because on a thread of moral fiber, it shure ain’t based
May 1st, 2008 at 3:46 pm
“Grocery deserts are a REAL phenomenon.”So why don’t they do something about it instead of just whining and pointing fingers?Honestly, I have no sympathy for anyone who at least doesn’t make an effort to do something about their situation….