Saved By the Blog - Est. 2004

My brother took on the extremely ambitious undertaking of asking about 50 of the top sports bloggers on the internets (not sure how I got included) to send him their top ten most blogged about athletes of the past year.  He complied the results to form an impressive list of the Top 40 Sports Figures of 2006.

Seeing as I went through the work of putting together a list of the ten athletes I blogged about most this year, I figured I would share it with you here:

10. Adam Morrison. With all of the great hair styles and mustaches he gave us during his final year at Gonzaga, I’m almost ashamed that he’s not in my top five.

9. Gilbert Arenas.  You know he must be doing something right if he can crack my top ten while playing in a league I couldn’t care less about: The NBA.

8. Jen Sterger.  Her SI advice columns have changed my life.  I couldn’t tell you the topics of any of them, but they always include at least one photo of her.

7. Ben Roethlisberger.  I’m still trying to figure out which was the dumber move: not wearing a helmet or appearing in the Povertyneck Hillbillies video.

6. Alfonso Soriano.  If it wasn’t for this man, I probably would’ve gone to about half the amount of Nats games as I did last season.  Actually, they still serve beer and have $5 tickets, right? Nevermind, I’ll keep going even now that he’s gone, but I’ll miss the ‘Fonz.

5. Johnny Weir.  I really do miss seeing Weir’s name in the newspaper or on TV and the writers and commentators simply referring to him as “eccentric.” 

4. J.J. Redick. In a year filled with so much hate, Redick was my number one target.  The guy writes poems, raps and played for Duke.  What a perfect combo for mockery.

3. Sean Taylor.  Whether he’s in a dance-off with Carlos Rogers, at the club with Portis and Santana, blowin’ people up on the field or spitting in their faces, this man is what YouTube – I mean AOL UnCut – was invented for.

2. Clinton Portis.  He gave Redskins fans everywhere at least one day of happiness this season when he became Dolemite Jenkins.  Number 26 in your program on your injury report, number one in my heart.

1. Jim Larranaga.  Larranaga is the only man in the history of Fairfax, Virginia who is more important than George Mason himself.  He also gave us one of the best pregame speeches ever right before his team beat UNC in the tourney, which was naturally remixed into the song "Kryptonite."

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