Andre Agassi Mohawk was Fake According to New Book

Andre Agassi's Mohawk wasn't even real. Not only that, but Andre Agassi used crystal meth and lied to tennis officials about it. These are just a couple of the facts revealed in the new Andre Agassi autobiography where the tennis star is apparently trying to come clean about his past. While the drug use is deplorable, the most shocking thing that fans are finding out, is that Andre Agassi's Mohawk was a fake. A Mohawk toupee seems like the oddest thing in the world to learn about Andre Agassi, and it also raises the interest level of his autobiography as fans of tennis try to figure out what else might be in the book.

Rick Reilly from ESPN The Magazine was allowed to read some of the new autobiography on Andre Agassi, and some of the early revelations from the text are quite shocking. The book that Andre Agassi has written with the help of Pulitzer Prize winner J.R. Moehringer seems to be a combination of admissions and revelations, and somewhere in between is where fans of Andre Agassi will find answers. These are answers to questions that people never even though to ask, as Andre Agassi had always seemed like an above-the-board tennis player who would never have used banned substances and lied to the ATP after getting caught. We were wrong in that assumption, and now Agassi is here to set us straight.

There is no denying that Andre Agassi is one of the best tennis players to ever play the game, and during the time that he was great, men's tennis seemed to be at its peak. The level of competition was immense when Agassi and Sampras roamed the courts, and when Agassi won the gold medal at the Olympics he became an icon for the sport. Now we come to find out that he used crystal meth frequently during 1997, and that when he tested positive on a drug test he lied about the reason. So why is he telling us this now? One answer could be that the statute of limitations has expired on his infractions, so the ATP can't do anything about it anymore. Pretty convenient, but does he deserve to be punished by fans?

The book hasn't even hit shelves yet, and Andre Agassi is back in the news, but for all the wrong reasons. Agassi had a tough life before tennis came along, but does that make it all right that he used illegal drugs and lied about it? Should he still be viewed as a roll model to kids and tennis players trying to make it to the top of the sport? It's entirely possible that Andre Agassi has officially tarnished his great tennis legacy all in the name of selling a few extra books. What other secrets lie between the pages?

Source: Rick Reilly Article