Venus and Serena a compelling sibling rivalry

September 2, 2008

Sports has had plenty of interesting sibling rivalries over the past two decades. There's been Eli and Peyton Manning, Tiki and Ronde Barber and even Cheryl and Reggie Miller. (Hey, they had to have some pretty mean games of H-O-R-S-E in that Riverside, Calif., driveway.)

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