Page 1 Roundup (08/30)

The Daily News: Woman whose dismembered corpse found in Bronx parks murdered by her best friend's boyfriend

Serena and Venus Williams to face off (again) in third round of U.S. Open

Instagram: Was Gregory Nalbone's socks-only photo too sexy for social media?

New York Post: Primary debate between Cuomo and Nixon gets heated

Cuomo digs up old clips of Nixon praising him for new ad

Outfit change for Aretha Franklin on second day of public viewing

A thief early Tuesday used the roof of a future men’s shelter to break into a neighboring penthouse -- which he ransacked while the owner and his pregnant wife were sleeping, cops and building workers said.

Towleroad: Porn performer Shane Cook says he has cancer

Quill & Pad: Tennis and timepieces 2018: Marketing match made in heaven or ‘you cannot be serious!’? An expert weighs in

The New York Times: Democratic embrace of diverse candidates collides with barbed politics of Trump era

Betsy DeVos is looking out for the real victims of college rape -- the accused

The Washington Post: Trump brings his birther beliefs to the U.S. Passport Office

The Wall Street Journal: You’re not getting bigger, the airplane bathroom is getting smaller

Is getting ‘hangry’ actually a thing?

Happy Birthday to Tennis Legends Boris Becker and Billie Jean King

Boom Boom turns 50 (gee, I don’t know what I ever saw in him ...)

... and Miss Moffitt is 74!

Novak Djokovic Splits With Boris Becker

Don't really have a lot of feelings about this news. Winning the French Open was clearly driving Nole these past couple years, and it just seemed like once he'd accomplished that, tennis took a slight backseat to fatherhood and enjoying life. His first six months were almost unparalleled and the second "bad" six were something most players would dream of. He's supposedly "re" committing himself to the game in 2017, which doesn't bode well for the rest of the field.

Coaching Inc.

So fun to see Novak Djokovic and Marin Cilic on the practice court with Boris Becker and Goran Ivanisevic. Have there ever been this many former top players coaching at once before?

Ivanisevic says he expects to see Marin Cilic in the top 10 "pretty soon."

Djokovic Hires Boris Becker as Coach

Wow, did not see THIS coming. Can't decide if it's more Lendl-Murray or Connors-Sharapova. Good for Novak not to rest on his laurels and strive to improve, though. He's gonna need all the help he can get if Rafael Nadal's knees hold up.

They seem like they get along!

Boom Boom Book

He's only my age, but German tennis hunk Boris Becker is slated to release a second memoir, "Life Is Not a Game," in which he promises to explain that "affair" he had in the closet of a trendy London restaurant back in 1999. (A child resulted in the 15-second incident.) He says the new tome takes on "those who took the opportunity to judge me and sometimes to condemn me and my family." He writes that he was simply "looking for love, a feeling of security," adding, "when you do not have that at home then you may look for that elsewhere, when the opportunity presents itself." Perfectly natural feeling for a man who had a pregnant wife at home at the time! Why this wasn't already addressed in his 2003 memoir -- "The Player" -- is anyone's guess. But with an ass like his, he can pretty much get away with anything in my book.

Wednesday Ad Watch: Boris Becker for Praktiker

Apparently when Boris Becker isn't impregnating strangers in coat closets in Chinese restaurants, he does advertising for Praktiker, which appears to be Germany's equivalent to Home Depot. (Cute!)

 

(Thanks, Robert!)