<i>Maaaaaaaaaaaake ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuut</i>” title=”<i>Maaaaaaaaaaaake ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuut</i>” class=”alignright size-full wp-image-41″ /><p>The Kickoff Party for the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami was actually back on March 26th, but I didn't learn about it until this morning.  My invitation must have gotten lost in the mail.</p><p>It was a momentous occasion, if only because the two most famous tennis-playing Russian-American blondes got together <a href=for a photo, thus providing the creative spark sports dorks have needed to write lesbian fan fiction about Anna Kournikova and Maria Sharapova.

On a side note, I'm really tired of sportswriters and talking heads who slam Kournikova for retiring without ever winning a tournament.   That's pretty unfair, right?  There are hundreds and hundreds of athletes in all sports who have never achieved the pinnacle of achievement; that's no need to bring them down.  Why is it Anna's fault she's good-looking but not the best tennis player in the world?  It's just sad.  I hope that someday in the future we can learn to appreciate women for their looks and not always judge them on their accomplishments.