May 23, 2013

LeBron James: World’s (Second) Greatest Athlete

The guys over at the Wall Street Journal took a break from the skyrocketing oil prices and a stock market under 12,000 to give us the goods on a study they have recently completed.  The task at hand: find the world’s greatest athlete.  Shouldn’t be too hard, right?

In what comes as very little surprise, the Cavaliers LeBron James was named among the top 10.  In fact, he came in second behind Roman Sebrle, a Czech decathlete – something that I will not argue with one bit.  In fact, I wouldn’t be upset if the top 10 was comprised entirely of decathletes.

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