The recent uproar about the nontennis activities of Anna Kournikova shows no signs of abating. Already steamed up by the contrast between her extraordinary endorsement earnings and her actual tournament ranking, self-appointed pundits have lately taken to denouncing her for her exercise video. Since the situation has, as the English say, gotten everybody's knickers into a twist.
Now, everything the critics may say about Kournikova (Whom we do not represent) may be true: She hasn't won a tournament, she takes attention away from better-ranked players, she's only a phenomenon because of her looks, and her video is just an excuse to put her through a series of poses with a medicine ball.
What can I say? I'm shocked -- whoever would have thought people cared about physical appearances? Are we really so shallow as all that?