Steve Nash is point guard for the #1 seed Phoenix Suns, the best team in the NBA. Steve Nash led the NBA in assists for the team that led the league in scoring. Steve Nash is the 2004-2005 NBA MVP. Steve Nash is white.
See any connection?
Unless you’re Miami Herald columnist Dan LeBetard, you probably wouldn’t. At least I would hope not.
Tiger is back. And not the grumpy, distracted Tiger with the loopy swing. Not the Tiger with the Swedish supermodel wife or the Buick commercials or Nike deals. Not the Tiger that fired his coach Butch Harmon or couldn’t buy a straight drive. But the kid Tiger, with the eyes, and the fist-pump, and the roar. And the question is, did you miss him?
So now that my college basketball season is over (Duke lost), I thought I’d turn my thoughts over to the next sport: baseball. But instead of revisiting the three major issues that have choked the entire offseason–namely steroids, barry bonds’s knee, and randy johnson’s haircut–there is a much quieter, underappreciated story line to look out for throughout the coming months.
I give you, Detroit baseball 2005.
Why do I believe Jose Canseco? Because unlike the four other jokes who flip-flopped in front of our nation’s Congress on thursday, Canseco looked and acted like he wanted to be there.
Because he really wanted to help baseball, not himself.