Things just seem to be getting weirder with Maria Sharapova in the wake of her admission to doping with the recently-banned substance Meldonium. In what absolutely looked like a set-up pap stroll, the disgraced tennis star was spotted out and about in Santa Monica early last week, all but posing in her very visible Nike gear and “playing beach tennis” for all the world to see. If this doesn’t smack of some PR spin-control guru’s idea of how she will claw her way back into the public consciousness, I don’t know what does. But the public is declaring “not so fast Ms. Sharapova”. The rather vague and weak stories that she originally gave the press in the wake of her original announcement are already being picked-apart by the public, and it...
