Time (Clocked in the Head)

Ouch.

Kei Nishikori Covers Time Magazine

Wow, pretty big honor. Time has had an interesting past with tennis, however, so it's not entirely unexpected. (Li Na ... twice!) Is there anyone who you think deserved to be on the cover who wasn't? I'd say Martina Navratilova -- and I'm kinda surprised there was never a Little Mo cover story or an Andre Agassi one (unless I missed). I've always thought of the 1970s as the Golden Age of tennis, but Time sure makes it seem like the 1930s was where it was at.

Anyone remember others? Email me HERE.

The Battle of the Sexes

Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs (1973)

Jimmy Connors (1975)

BJK picked as one of the Women of the Year (1976)

Bjorn Borg (1980)

Steffi Graf -- for her father's imprisonment, not her Grand Slam and other records (1996)

Boris Becker (2001) (for his being a whore)

Venus and Serena Williams (2001)

Li Na once ... (2013)

and again ... (2014)

From the archives:

Helen Wills Moody (1929)

Betty Nuthall (1931)

Ellsworth Vines Jr. (1932)

Donald Budge (1935)

Helen Jacobs (1936)



Gottfried von Cramm (1937)



Pauline Betz (1946)

Jack Kramer (1947)

Jack Savitt (1951)

Althea Gibson (1957)

About Time

While being on the cover of Time isn't what it used to be, it's still a HUGE deal for the LGBT community that actress Laverne Cox is the news magazine's latest cover woman! Read The Transgender Tipping Point HERE.

Out of Time

Time Inc. Saying Goodbye to Iconic New York Building Heading downtown after splitting from parent Time Warner 

 Wow, this is news to me and truly the end of an era. I can remember going to my first event there in the 1990s, an NLGJA mixer where I got to meet Dan Rather. I was in awe of the whole thing. Conde Nast is also heading downtown. I wonder how the staffs feel about this. Read HERE.