The biggest controversy in the sports world and on sports Twitter right now is John McEnroe’s interview with NPR, and the comments he made in reaction to an aggressive interviewer’s questions about Serena Williams as the GOAT in the sport of tennis. Many writers, including myself, gave McEnroe a slight pass on his remarks that she’d rank 700 in the world if she played against men – due to the fact that he was kind of backed into a corner by the line of questioning.
However it’s hard to cut him that level of slack after reading the comments that fellow tennis star Andy Roddick made just a few months ago in an interview with Katie Barnes of ESPNW.