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  • From: verily
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  • Posted: 9/28/07
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Have the people who created the list lost their minds?  Or are they just that racist?  How in the name of all that's holy could they list Maria Sharapova over the Williams sisters?!   Brilliant, well-read Venus Williams' eloquent, persuasive, published open letter to Wimbledon officials last year -as well as her leadership of her peers on the issue - led to women tennis players getting equal pay as men at Wimbledon for the FIRST time in that tournament's century's long HISTORY!!  Venus Williams has also won 6 majors to Sharapova's measly TWO majors!  And Serena Williams is the ONLY current singles tennis player to have won ALL FOUR MAJORS in a ROW - as Tiger Woods did in golf!   And Venus and Serena have had major shoe deals - Serena with Nike and Venus with Reebok as well as endorsements from everything from beauty company, AVON, to double-mint gum to Wilson's leather to McDonalds!!  And according to the latest Harris Poll,  Venus and Serena are the most popular FEMALE ATHLETES in GENERAL ( not JUST fave female tennis players) So stop the racist crap! What do you think women are?  Stupid? Sheesh!

Verily 

  • Posted: 10/2/07
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In short the inclusion of  a third rated Tennis Star like Sharapova over Billie Jean King and the Willaim Sisters has discreted this list.
  • Posted: 10/3/07
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My goodness.....BusinessWeek, you're nothing more that a popularity list......all of America has become about who is popular...sports, like the Presidency, Congress, are all so full of crap....What ever happened to giving people what they deserve..The hell with popularity.......get some guts and be what you should be about. Creditability.....Business Week you're so pathetic........No one in America has any damn idea what a pathetic nation we have become........ If you have a problem with my comments give me a call 214 552 9355.........

Ken Danforth

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