Sports' Best from A to Z

Dave Hyde of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel recently wrote an interesting piece in which he chose the top sports figure from each letter in the alphabet. An easy way to do this is start with the obvious all-time greats, and they take their letter: A is Muhammad Ali, G is Wayne Gretsky, J is Michael Jordan, T is Jim Thorpe, and Z is Babe Didrickson Zaharias. But then it gets harder, and some letters are loaded with options. M is perhaps the toughest, with Dan Marino, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Joe Montana, amongst others. Some letters have few options, like Q where I am glad he chose 1980s reliever Dan Quisenberry -- and idol of mine as a kid. And X is tough... so he punted and chose no one. He also made some non-standard choices as well: Sir Edmund Hillary for H, Secretariat for S, and Phidippides for P (no Pele?). He cheated for L, going with Lance Armstrong since A went to Ali. See the article for the rest of his choices. Good stuff!