Martina Tributes...

Martina Navratilova will be in Los Angeles later this month to receive an award from Lambda Legal at an event to be held at the Directors Guild of America. "Out in Hollywood" will cover it. But I wanted to share with you a couple of really good stories I came across this morning on Sports Illustrated.com and on ESPN.com that really sum up her career and Martina's last US Open which ended over the weekend with a mixed doubles title.

Sports Illustrated.com writer Andrew Lawrence has posted a nicely written tribute to Martina Navratilova that I want to share.

Here is the beginning of it:

NEW YORK -- It's the way Andre Agassi would've gone out if he had had the choice: up two sets, 40-30 and serving for the match. And she didn't even have to raise her racket. An Ashe Stadium crowd of 60 percent capacity stood to their feet in applause, the significance of the moment not lost on them. Martina Navratilova responded in kind, batting her racket against her palm, then dropping into crouch before doubles partner Bob Bryan fired an 86 mph ace over her left shoulder. And just like that, it was over: 31 seasons, more than 2,000 matches and one 59th and final Grand Slam.