So ESPN has been doing a state-by-state (and now I think sport-by-sport) sports version of Mount Rushmore. Basically you vote on the four greatest athletes from that state to be carved into hypothetical stone as a tribute to their legacies. Though this is rather silly in a way, it does make for good conversation. Leave it to ESPN to once again fill in a slow sports time of the year with a gimmick and leave it to us to copy it! Anyhow, let's cut to the chase: if we take the nation as a whole, who should be on our national sports Mount Rushmore? And if you want to get really crazy, who would be on an all-time althletes Mount Rushmore, any time from anywhere?
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Here's who I'm going with:
Jim Thorpe, Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan
The anytime, anywhere version I need to marinate on some more.
Some all-time considerations:
Hercules, Odysseus (as he did outwrestle Ajax), the dude who ran the first marathon (Pheidippides or something like that), and perhaps everyone's favorite - Milo the panratist of Platonic fame.
Of course, these guys are all Greek. Any other suggestions?
Secretariat ("Big Red"), Michael Jordan ("His Airness"), Wayne Gretzky ("The Great One"), Tiger Woods ("Tiger Woods")
I'm going to have to say Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, and Tiger Woods
----Dan Fincke
My lifetime.....
Jordan, Tiger, Montana, Gretzky
Takin' it back to the day....
Milo of Croton the Pankratist (feats of strength!)
Spartacus (I'm Spartacus!)
Phidippides (ran from Marathon to Athens)
....And then I sorta run out of ancient historical figures, unless I want to conjure up some names from obscure sources. So I'll say Jim Thorpe for this past century.
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