Brown says.At about the one hour and 10-minute mark of the April 3 podcast episode, Maron asked Shields to reflect on her relationship with Agassi, whom she married in 1997 and divorced in 1999. 1 in the world.' 'I wouldn't bet against him,' Mr. I start to answer, but my father jumps in. He hands them to my father, then turns to me. 'I never lose,' I say quietly.'Īgassi's match with Brown is no different-he takes two sets from the Cleveland Browns great before Brown changes the bet to $500, which Agassi wins with a 6-2 victory in the third set.Īs Agassi recalls: 'Sweat running down his face, pulls a wad from his pocket and counts out five crisp hundreds. He asks how long I've been playing, how many matches I've won, how many I've lost. It will be about respect and manhood and honor-against the greatest football player of all time. So this match will be about more than money. Brown disrespected my father, and my father can't punch him out. Brown is different, and not just because my family's life savings are riding on the outcome. But it's always been another kid, and there's never been money involved. 'I've played under this kind of pressure before, when my father, without warning, has chosen an opponent and ordered me to beat him. Before long, Mike Agassi had goaded Brown into a $10,000 match with his son: Fong, about a money match that fell through. When Agassi was nine, he and his father stumbled upon football great Jim Brown at Cambridge Racket Club in Las Vegas, who was steaming to the club's owner, Mr. Thomas Ondrey, The Plain Dealer Jim Brown, shown visiting Browns training camp in August of this year.The eight-time major winner tells about his violent, overbearing father his antipathy toward the sport that made him famous and the time in 1979 he played a match against Brown, the Cleveland Browns legend. 2 issue of Sports Illustrated includes an excerpt from the new book by tennis great Andre Agassi, entitled 'Andre Agassi's Open: An Autobiography' In his new book, Agassi says when he was 9 years old, he beat Browns legend Jim Brown in a match they played for $500.Ever hear the story about how a 9-year-old tennis prodigy hustled Jim Brown out of $500 on the hardcourt?

Associated Press Andre Agassi gives a kiss to fans after winning an exhibition match over Pete Sampras this week in Macau.

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