Rick Reilly’s last column was, no joke, about how horse races are hard to call. (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)

Andre Agassi was at the Encore Theater to talk to ESPN columnist and professional schmaltz machine Rick Reilly about his autobiography Open yesterday. It’s the book in which Agassi admits that for a time, he did crystal meth.

Former No. 1 Marat Safin came out and said Agassi should give back all his titles after the fact, but Safin misses one very crucial point: When was the last time you saw anyone actually do something better on crystal meth? Other than lose their teeth and wrestle with the cops, we mean. If anything, they should give Agassi an extra title for heroically playing professional tennis while hamstrung by this terrible drug. Not a big one or anything. Not Wimbledon. But maybe an extra Australian Open. Would anyone notice? Like, what about Petr Korda’s 1998 title? Come on, you know he’s not using it for anything.

By Jason Scavone

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