One in five Americans follow professional tennis
CBSN
With the U.S. Open underway in Flushing Meadows in New York City, a CBS News poll finds that about one in five Americans pays attention to what's going on in professional tennis.
That percentage is lower than it was at the height of the sport's popularity in the U.S. during the early 1980s. Back in 1983, when Americans Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe vied for the number one position in men's tennis, a CBS News poll found that more than one in three Americans paid attention to professional tennis.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.