They Aren’t Using Their Poker Faces on Agassi

Andre Agassi may be a Las Vegan, but that doesn’t mean the tennis star was being handled with kid gloves in his hometown after he was upset by unknown Jerome Haehnel in straight sets in the first round of the French Open on Monday.

Wrote Joe Hawk of the Las Vegas Review-Journal: “Only Andre Agassi knows if he has given all he has to give. Only Andre Agassi knows if the time is right. Albeit, it has been on clay, not his favorite surface, certainly not his best surface, but Agassi, 34, has looked his tennis age the past two weeks.”

More Hawk: “When the time comes for Agassi to retire -- yes, that word has to be used at some point -- we hope he knows it and acts upon it. We want to remember him at his best and not anything less.”

Trivia time: Who played in the first NBA Finals?

Looking back: On this date in 1972, Mark Donohue set an Indianapolis 500 speed record of 162.962 mph and won the race over two-time defending champion Al Unser.

You don’t say: No matter how high he could fly on the court, Michael Jordan has never been above the finer things in life.

“I get manicures every 10 days, pedicures once a month,” Jordan told InStyle magazine, according to the New York Daily News. “Maybe 20 years ago, I would have thought that’s feminine. But men have needs too.”

Come to think of it, Jordan’s fingernails did look clean when he pushed Bryon Russell out of his way before sinking that top-of-the key jumper to win Game 6 and the 1997-98 NBA title.

Pucks or preps? Ice hockey has yet to take all of Florida by storm. Consider: Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals between Tampa Bay and Calgary had a 1.4 rating and a 2 share in central Florida, meaning about 17,000 homes were watching in the Orlando area.

By comparison, the “Orlando Sentinel Varsity Sports Show” -- high school highlights -- on Saturday afternoons had a 1.9 rating with a 4 share.

Good point: On “Best Damn Sports Show Period,” New York Post columnist Peter Vecsey pondered the plight of teams interested in signing Kobe Bryant as a free agent: “Teams have to be a little wary about coming after him, because what happens if they do go after Kobe, they’re ready to spend the max, he commits to them and then he has to go to jail?”

Logical answer: Wouldn’t that make the Portland Jail Blazers, er Trail Gangstas, er Trail Blazers, the front-runners?

Trivia answer: The Philadelphia Warriors defeated the Chicago Stags, four games to one, to win the 1946-47 title.

And finally: Radio personality JT the Brick, on “I, Max,” on the direction of the Bronx Bombers:

“I’m disgusted by it.... These rent-a-wrecks that the Yankees are going out now and getting, they have no chemistry. It’s just a bunch of No. 3 and 4 hitters trying to hit doubles and home runs. There’s absolutely no chemistry, and I’m telling you something, this could be the kiss of death for the Yankees.”

Yankee-haters everywhere can only hope.