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CNN Salutes 'X On My Back' Serena Williams, Who 'Outlasted Tom Brady'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 09/03/2022 8:39:08 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

As Serena Williams' her playing career ended Friday night, there's a good case to be made that she is the greatest female player of all time.

Even so, facts still matter. And in extolling Serena, CNN got one fact glaringly wrong. Co-host John Berman brought on CNN sports correspondent Carolyn Manno, who claimed:

"What Brianna [Keilar] said at the top, the longevity piece, is so important. Because she is in the pantheon of all-time greats. But she has outlasted Michael Jordan and Tom Brady."

Serena has outlasted Tom Brady??

Serena is retiring at age 40. Tom Brady is 45, and is about to begin his 22nd season in the NFL, playing as the starting QB of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Very strong 300-pounders will be looking to pound him into the turf—something that rarely occurs on a tennis court.

CNN also focused on Serena saying in her post-match interview that throughout her career, she has been playing with "an X on my back."

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To: SaxxonWoods

All I know is Bobby Riggs threw that match against Billie Jean King, and apparently made a mint betting against himself.


41 posted on 09/03/2022 9:40:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Holyfield’s jaw isn’t as strong as Serena’s.


42 posted on 09/03/2022 9:46:10 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
As far as I'm concerned she's not worth a pimple on a bull's ass. Hope this is the end of her.

43 posted on 09/03/2022 9:59:05 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: cherry

It seems that when a woman gets up there in the props dept certain types gotta go overboard and spoil whatever was her accomplishment.


44 posted on 09/03/2022 10:08:48 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yeah, but Brady doesn’t have near the big fat ugly mouth and despicable demeanor of this gal.


45 posted on 09/03/2022 10:10:36 AM PDT by dforest
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To: dfwgator

...yea, watched in college bar where i lost $20 on that bet to a, you guessed it, a gurl! NEVER bet again on ANY such ‘setup’! Ha!


46 posted on 09/03/2022 10:11:29 AM PDT by apostoli (When the Saxon awakes, continents will BURN!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Such a Sportsman!



d:^)

47 posted on 09/03/2022 10:14:31 AM PDT by apostoli (When the Saxon awakes, continents will BURN!)
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To: basalt
Court is one of only three players in history (all women) to have won the "Grand Slam Boxed Set", consisting of every Grand Slam title (the singles, doubles and mixed doubles). Court, however, is the only one in tennis history to complete a Multiple Grand Slam set, twice, in all three disciplines. Uniquely, she won all 12 as an amateur and then after a period of retirement, returned as a professional to win all 12 again. Court is also one of only six tennis players ever to win a Multiple Grand Slam set in two disciplines, matching Roy Emerson, Martina Navratilova, Frank Sedgman, Doris Hart, and Serena Williams.

Court is by far the best woman tennis player ever, but... she is a Christian Minister, so there is that.

48 posted on 09/03/2022 10:38:48 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

How about Monica Seles with an actual knife in her back. Much worse than an X wouldn’t you say? Oh wait! that doesn’t matter, Seles was white. I lost my head for a minute.


49 posted on 09/03/2022 10:54:25 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: ConservativeInPA

“She’s black trash and ugly too. Her ass doesn’t fit her body. Whatever happened to ladies?”

You’re a peach.


50 posted on 09/03/2022 10:55:34 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: lump in the melting pot
I don’t recall Tom Brady ever threatening to shove a football up a sideline ref’s ass

Well at least he would shrink the ball first.

51 posted on 09/03/2022 10:56:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SaxxonWoods

“Didn’t Billy Riggs beat Chris Evert with a bunch of chairs on his side of the court?”

I do remember that Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Court in 1973, before losing later to Billie Jean King.


52 posted on 09/03/2022 10:58:49 AM PDT by riverdawg (Wells Fargo is my bank and I have no complaints.)
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To: riverdawg
I do remember that Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Court in 1973, before losing later throwing the match to Billie Jean King.

Fixed it.
53 posted on 09/03/2022 10:59:42 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
That's Mike Tyson in a wig.


54 posted on 09/03/2022 11:15:36 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Please, please, will the day EVER come when I do not have to see her hideous face plastered everywhere in the media????


55 posted on 09/03/2022 11:22:18 AM PDT by rod5591
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To: dfwgator

Good one!

#DeflateGate


56 posted on 09/03/2022 11:25:55 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: Rummyfan

When you’re supposedly the best you always have an x on your back.


57 posted on 09/03/2022 11:44:15 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yup, true ray’s sis virtue signal their love of folks they do not associate with


58 posted on 09/03/2022 1:20:44 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Rummyfan

I’ve heard it’s the goal of every tennis player to defeat the opponent. It’s probably a lot of hooey and they’re just supposed to let Serena win.


59 posted on 09/03/2022 1:20:44 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Didn’t Serena kill somebody in a car crash or was that her sister?


60 posted on 09/03/2022 2:01:34 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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