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Sports Illustrated has named Olympics hero Michael Phelps its Sportsman of the Year. A fine choice, no doubt, though I would have gone with Tiger Woods. Phelps, after all, didn’t have to compete on a broken leg and torn-up knee. At least the prize didn’t go to our President-elect for the three-point shot he hit in Kuwait last summer.
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J. Peter Freire | 12.3.08 @ 2:20PM
Barack Obama's one heck of a guy. Sweet 3-point jumpshots? Awesome.
Quin Hillyer| 12.3.08 @ 4:37PM
But Wlady, there was more pressure on that 3-pointer than on anything Phelps or Woods endured! Think about having the fate of the free world -- indeed, the WHOLE world -- rest on your ability to hit a 3-pointer with the cameras rolling. Now THAT was truly the moment when the Earth began to heal and the oceans stopped rising and...... How can Sports Illustrated NOT realize that Obama was the One we've been waiting for?
;)
Wlady| 12.3.08 @ 5:04PM
Quin: Which reminds me, someone in the New Yorker I think it was, probably Hendrik Hertzberg, claimed that that Obamaesque three-pointer "swished" through the net -- when it did no such thing; it barely worked its way over and around the rim before settling into the basket; back in my day I always hated it when my shot went in like that.