The sports world is all abuzz about a new book that confirms that Andre Agassi was a crystal meth user in 1997.

In a tweet he since deleted, a Sport Illustrated employee dropped a bomb Tuesday morning.

@richarddeitsch: Book excerpt from Andre Agassi in the forthcoming SI: He admits to taking crystal meth during his career.

The book, “Open: An Autobiography” will be excerpted in People and Sports Illustrated this week. It’s out November 9.

Since the tweet heard round the sports world, a publicist for Random House confirmed the news. “Those excerpts contain revelations about Andre’s use of crystal meth when he was a tennis player,” said Paul Bogaards, director of media relations at Knopf, a division of Random House. Agassi used in 1997.

I don’t know why everyone is freaking out. What pro athlete doesn’t use some kind of drug at one point or another. I highly doubt he was using while actually playing ..this was at the height of his fame and he was most likely just getting his tweek on. This little juicy tidbit is going make this otherwise yawn-inducing book slightly more interesting and much more lucrative. Good marketing dudes.

Amy Winehouse is not doing well kids. Doctors say that her cracked out body is so frail that at one point they were afraid she would break bones during an overdose convulsion.

The British Sun says that a close friend of the Wino has revealed that her first overdose in August 2008 was from a lethal mixture of cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, ketamine and crystal meth. While in the hospital she was advised by doctors to see a psychiatrist after displaying “multiple personality traits”.

But that’s not all! Her next overdose in July of this year was from an “inhuman” amount of hash that left her hallucinating and vomiting uncontrollably.

Medics are worried Amy’s brain was damaged by the cannabis overdose – she displayed symptoms normally associated with schizophrenia.

The pal yesterday said: “The future is bleak, bleak, bleak. Amy’s fits (during the second overdose) were as bad as the convulsions she had during her overdose in August last year. No one has mentioned her meth use before – but that stuff is truly nasty. She is in need of years of psychiatry and medical treatment if she has a hope.”

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