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Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Tremendous film, never a dull moment.

Just wanted to do this book in an abstract way, collect all the data, assemble it and let the reader interpret it as they may. Rios is a unique, mysterious, unpredictable subject so I wanted the book to be as well. This is how I did the original feature about Rios in Tennis Week magazine back...

Got a positive review from The Tennis Channel's Steve Flink... HomeTennis NewsHeadlines Steve Flink: Rios Remains Enigmatic 12/19/2011 2:00:00 PM by Steve Flink From the time he established himself as a prominent figure in the world of tennis, Marcelo Rios seemed to have an unfortunate...

The documentary was excellent. But not a surprise ending as the father put way too much pressure and expectation on Todd from a young age. It's reminded of the Capriati or Woods situations. These great athletes had to sacrifice their childhoods to become the supreme athletes that they did. Todd...

A couple of examples of the surliness of Marcelo Rios towards the media... David Mercer (Eurosport and BBC Sport TV Commentator): "I got the impression that Marcelo Rios had a very low opinion of the media and he was neither very cooperative or forthcoming at press conferences or in interviews...

A very kind man, approachable and friendly.

Barry had a rep as being defensive and antagonistic to the media. I had one experience with him and he was actually quite nice. I did a biofile with Deion Sanders his Giant team and next over locker mate after overcoming some resistance from Neon Deion, he actually gave a classic interview. I...

If there was a Hall of Fame for Niceness, Curtis Pride would be a first balloter. Really The Hawk Andre Dawson was not good with the media? I got a great Biofile with him, was very nice. Gotta dig up the Curtis Pride Biofile.

Why was Jim Rice so uncooperative and distrustful of the media? There must be some reasons for this stance.

Wow that was beautiful and edifying, thanks for sharing

WC Fields in The Bank deck. Decent movie. Probably would have loved it 50 years ago.

Ringer, it's self-published via an operation called Createspace.com, which is part of Amazon (distribute through amazon). So far pretty pleased with them and would recommend, only beefs would be the process took longer than hoped/expected, but only by about a month.

It's a tough call but yes. We are supposed to be forgiving people. It's time to forgive Pete Rose.

Stitch it's not your typical tennis book nor is Rios your typical athlete. So any comments or critiques are definitely welcome.

Belle once grabbed a reporter's tape recorder and ate it in one bite.