Athlete's Brithdays : 01/17/08

This is not my contest entry. If you are going to do this every day, let me know -- we can build a little thing which automatically pulls a list. But it'd take a lot of time to build 366 different pages with birthdays.

I wrote something a year ago today on Ali [1]. The man was a great athlete. I'll just steal Manny's Analogy for this one b/c it's so good:

Saying Tyson is better than Ali is like saying Nirvana is better than the Beatles. Sure Nirvana had some hits, you like the songs and were big for a time, but the Beatles transcend time; maybe the songs don't resonate the same today because you're so familiar it was never new to you, but their work was unimaginable at the time, like Ali (and frankly, if not for the Beatles coming first, there could never be a Nirvana) Nirvana went up against the likes of TLC and Pearl Jam on the charts, the Beatles outsold the likes of Elvis and Motown.

It's a tyson-ali debate, but the point still rings true. Ali was a revolution in his sport, and must be remembered for as long as possible

Ali has no equal - before, during or after. And neither does Tupac for that matter.

"It's not so much me as it is Roenick. He's good"

ML players born today.

I guess it's soon time to finish the Zodiac Tour