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What’s Wrong With Professional Tennis, and What REALLY Enabled Venus and Serena Williams to Become Icons | Cecil Harris
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Greg Krino द्वारा प्रदान की गई सामग्री. एपिसोड, ग्राफिक्स और पॉडकास्ट विवरण सहित सभी पॉडकास्ट सामग्री Greg Krino या उनके पॉडकास्ट प्लेटफ़ॉर्म पार्टनर द्वारा सीधे अपलोड और प्रदान की जाती है। यदि आपको लगता है कि कोई आपकी अनुमति के बिना आपके कॉपीराइट किए गए कार्य का उपयोग कर रहा है, तो आप यहां बताई गई प्रक्रिया का पालन कर सकते हैं https://hi.player.fm/legal।
Cecil Harris is the author of Different Strokes: Serena, Venus, and the Unfinished Black Tennis Revolution. He has written on sports for The New York Times, the New York Daily News, Newsday, the New York Post, The (Raleigh, NC) News & Observer, The Indianapolis Star, The Sporting News, The Hockey News, USA Today and the Associated Press. He's covered major events such as the Summer Olympic Games; Major League Baseball’s playoffs, All-Star Game and World Series; the NBA Finals; Stanley Cup playoffs;college basketball’s Final Four and national championship game;tennis’s U.S. Open and WTA Championships; college football; boxing; soccer;and track and field. He appeared in the CBS Sports documentary, Althea & Arthur, about tennis Hall of Famers Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe; the documentary, A Perfect Match, about Gibson andher Wimbledon doubles partner Angela Buxton; and the hockey documentary, Soul on Ice.
His fourth book, Different Strokes: Serena, Venus, and the Unfinished Black Tennis Revolution, debuted in 2020. His previous books are Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey (2004); Call the Yankees My Daddy(2005); and Charging the Net: A History of Blacks in Tennis from Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe to the Williams Sisters (2007). He also contributed a chapter to the anthology, African Americans and Popular Culture (2008). He graduated summa cum laude from Fordham University in New York City with a Bachelor of Arts degree in media studies. I live in Yonkers, New York.
Follow Cecil on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and at CecilHarrisBooks.com.
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