I don’t usually disagree with such a respected and powerful publication such as The Wall Street Journal, but I will now. The financial bible of America has typically stayed at bay with its sports reporting, covering it from an arms-length distance. It writes, by many standards, safe, analytical sports stories, that usually concern the most pertinent sports issues that day or week.
On Friday, the Journal went in over its head. The WSJ took up most of a full page with a story headlined “The World’s Greatest Athlete?” The story says that the Journal “asked a panel of sports experts to sift through a mountain of date and pick the fastest, strongest, most agile man of Earth.”
Five judges, mostly exercise health and science experts, from across the country, started with 79 male athletes and came up with 10:
1. Roman Sebrie, decathlete
2. LeBron James, basketball player
3. Floyd Mayweather, boxer
4. LaDainian Tomlinson, football player
5. Roger Federer, tennis player
6. Sidney Crosby, hockey player
7. Liu Xiang, 110-meter hurdler
8. Jeremy Wariner, 400-meter sprinter
9. Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, soccer player
10. Alex Rodriguez, baseball player.
