good for you, Mac... let 'em have it. LOVE YOU!

I always thought he was a privileged brat, seeing how he behaved on the court.
Guess he does have some good in him.

but he's a good guy.

...last several years on tennis and I too now like him, unlike when he played.

His behavior was childish, but I remember some TV ads in the 1980's where he parodied himself. He may have been a douche, but he was at least somewhat aware of the fact.

Yes, he was a-hole back in the day but all that is now gone and he has
become a good man. BTW he is a very commentator for grand slam events
too.

He was a punk on the court, to be sure, but unlike his contemporary, Jimmy Connors, he was always a good sport and took his lumps graciously off it.

McEnroe forever!

I was beginning to think that I was the only one who liked him as a player. Yes, he was intense, but even then he knew how to laugh at himself.

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Sounds like she may have unresolved issues

then, but I remember she was the Serena Williams of her day. Welcome to DU!

I shudder to imagine the dark reaches of his mind.

"The Spanish Inquisition in a Sears suit."

You have won the interwebs today.

Therefore, it's news.

Serena still trails her in that department.

But, she's a fundyclown.

that SHE had to make an issue of this. I think tennis was willing to do a "live and let live" with her, given her talent and how dominant she was back in the day. Instead, she pushed it.

I'm not personally a huge fan of un-naming things, but if they take her name off the court, I think she's brought this on herself. Lord knows how hard it was to be gay in sports 50 years or so ago - if some of her fellow competitors were dealing with that and she knew it, I think she could be more gracious now.

Yvonne Goolagong court, anyone?

Glad McEnroe called her out.

favor.

She was really fun to watch. Did I spell her first name wrong? It's been a long time.

She is one of the greatest female tennis players of all time.

Good on John Mac.

She's now a pastor at one of the loonie fundie churches

Get 'em Mac!!

I rooted for Borg in the epic matches but by the mid '80s I had come around on McEnroe and realized how terrific he was, on and off the court.

Bonehead decision to skip the Olympics in 1988. He had plenty of company. Virtually all the top tennis males were paralyzed with fear and drenched with excuses. The women were more astute. Steffi Graf embraced the Games from the outset, in fact the trial run in Los Angeles in 1984 as demonstration sport.

McEnroe and Johnny Miller are two of the greatest players-turned-commentator ever.

. . .the first 2 minutes. . .

Link to tweet

I don't identify with any of those letters that seem to be growing in length, GLBTWR?, but I love all kind, man/woman/most others.

I hope that humankind can stop trying to slot us all into little cubbyholes. We are all variations on a huge tapestry of myriads of themes.

WTG Johnny Mac

him (and their match started a complete revolution in opportunities for women athletes). Also liked the shot at the end about how her behavior is on par with that of the sexist Ilie Nastase. And the phone call to Elton ... ha!

Telling it like it should be told.

Margaret Court--Great tennis player/athlete, but as a person she scrapes the bottom of the barrel

john McEnroe more than I do today. Good for him.