NAMES & FACES

Eugenie Bouchard

The 2014 Wimbledon finalist from Canada called Maria Sharapova a cheater upon the Russian’s return from a 15-month doping suspension, and said she should have been banned from tennis for life. “I don’t think that’s right,” said Bouchard, who is competing at the Istanbul Cup this week. “She is a cheater and so, to me, I don’t think a cheater in any sport should be allowed to play that sport again. It’s so unfair to all the other players who do it the right way . ... I think from the WTA it sends the wrong message to young kids: ‘Cheat and we will welcome you back with open arms.’ I don’t think that’s right and definitely she is not someone I can say I look up to anymore.”

James Patterson

The best-selling crime author says he’s writing a true-crime book about Aaron Hernandez, the former NFL player and convicted murderer found hanging by a bedsheet in prison last week. Little, Brown and Co. said that Patterson’s book, not yet titled, is scheduled for early 2018. Patterson, best known for his Alex Cross series, is also putting together a collection of true crime stories in partnership with Investigation Discovery, to come out on the TV network and in print in January. Patterson, one of the world’s most popular and prolific novelists, said in a statement he was “stunned” by Hernandez’s death and wanted to know “what went wrong.”