[troutman]

This show about Chrissy Evert and Martina Navratilova was moving:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...portCat=tennis

The latest film in ESPN's "30 for 30" series features a bond nearly impossible to forge in the current sports world of Twitter spats and character-bashing trash talk, an unbreakable friendship formed out of a fierce rivalry. Eighty times, Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert met on the courts and, through it all, two of the greatest female tennis stars in history remained inseparable.

"The rivalry is unmatched, the numbers speak for themselves," Lax says. "Obviously Ali-Frazier is a great rivalry, but in terms of longevity, and its meaning for women's tennis, it's definitely the greatest rivalry in tennis overall, and arguably the greatest sports rivalry in history."

It's possible that, one day, a new tandem will emerge to become the new Navratilova-Evert, a rivalry that defines a sport, a generation, even a gender, for that matter. The 80 meetings can be surpassed, the throne of "best ever" usurped. Records can be scratched out, monikers can be supplanted.

But the friendship? Now that will forever be unmatched.