Written by
Tom Leech
at Thomas Leech & Associates
We’ve had a run recently on words that come back to poke the senders, top execs in the sports realm. There’s that guy who heads the Russian Tennis Federation, who labeled the tennis super-stars Venus and Serena Williams as "the Williams brothers" and "scary" to look at. Shamil Tarpischev made that comment on Russian TV and got heavy flak from Serena and the press. He said it was intended to be humorous, and later apologized. For his comments, he was fined $25,000 and suspended from tour i...
