Link Backlog II

I promise I'll get back to real posts after just these few more quick links that caught my sportsman's (such as I am) eye:

• Agassi to retire after Wimbledon, U.S. Open. A great champion, and being the oldest guy to hold the #1 ranking is very inspiring in a sport that tends to retire 'em young.
• Chessboxing!
• Fascinating steroids perspective over at De Vany's blog, from a guy with some noteworthy qualifications:

  I should tell you that I was the Anti-doping Commissioner of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) - a relatively new sport within the Olympic Family - for nearly 13 years. I had to act as "prosecutor" on many doping cases (doping = drugs in sport). Prior to that, I helped write the first set of "anti-doping" rules for triathlon in 1988. Before that, I was an elite marathoner (2:18) and triathlete (4th Place Ironman Hawaii) in the '70s and '80s, so I have accumulated a fair amount of "inside information" regarding drugs in sport at the Olympic level. I also own a supplement company and have done extensive research on performance enhancement in pursuit of natural, legal alternatives.