During the US Open Final on Sunday (Sept 9), Serena Williams made the match a personal grudge agenda with the seat/line judge. Simply said…if she knew the judge was strict and rigid, then don’t mess with him. Save it for the press conference.

There is no silver lining to this story, and Spain is not allowing wealth to uphold impunity. Lionel Messi, one of the top paid athletes in the world, FC Barcelona forward, will stand trial with his father, Jorge, for intentionally not paying taxes from endorsement earnings (defrauding Spain) from 2007-2009 amounting to about $5 million dollars. The judge in the case rejected requests from prosecutors to drop the charges on the star soccer/futbal player and his father, and they will have to stand trial with no date set yet. Lawyers from the tax authority are lobbying for a 22-month sentence for both Lionel and his father. Lionel and his father are denying any knowledge of wrongdoing and intentional fraud.

Mr. “I’m loving the controversy,” Patriots’ QB Tom Brady was given a BIG BREAK in federal court in NYC, yesterday. Federal court judge Richard Berman ordered the NFL to lift the four-game suspension on Brady?!