For a gaming blog, it's amazing just how much we've ended up talking about Serena Williams lately. But as random as her prevalence on this site may be, it must be mentioned that the Ape-beast herself was on Conan O'Brien last night playing some wii tennis with the furor of funny.
If you've been to ESPN.com lately, you may have noticed the considerably unflattering picture of Serena Williams' victory pose that is currently plastered across the main page of the site. As a gamer, when I first encountered this photo, I immediately recalled the cover art of Primal Rage, a quarter-assed prehistoric 2D fighter for the SNES. A quick archaeological dig through my classic game collection revealed a stunning, if not frightening, resemblance between Williams, the tennis icon, and Chaos, the ape-beast god of decay. As far as I'm concerned, the two images' variance is restricted to context and skin color. But all ape-beasts aside, while I'm sure Williams is proud to have her exploits chronicled on the front page of the site, she can't be pleased with the presentation.