Tuesday (all-sports draft) edition: Wha’ Happened?
Posted on June 24th, 2008 – 9:09 AMBy Michael Rand
We’re not quite ready to put together our NBA mock draft; instead, we want your help in putting together an all-sports draft board. How does this work? It’s simple, really: Imagine you are putting together an all-star team of CURRENT players that is not sport specific. Who is your No. 1 pick? Tiger Woods? Who’s No. 2? Kobe Bryant? Roger Federer? Sidney Crosby? Once a player is chosen, that player is off the board (like a real or “fantasy” draft). In the end, hopefully we will have constructed a very arguable list of the top X athletes in sports, regardless of what they play. Any sport is in play, but if you are picking an obscure player or sport (looking at you, Marthaler), please justify your answer. As noted above, we will take the No. 1 pick and make it Tiger Woods. The rest is up to you (please wait at least two turns before making another pick … that is, if you pick No. 2, don’t pick again until No. 5, etc.). Hat-tip to Kissing Suzy Kolber for this excellent concept. Also, please enjoy a picture of Jason Giambi’s mustache (thanks to Taylor C. for the heads up).
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55 Responses to "Tuesday (all-sports draft) edition: Wha’ Happened?"
2. Cristiano Ronaldo
3. Tom Brady
4. Haile Gebrselassie
5. Roger Federer
6. Lorena Ochoa
7. Alex Rodriguez
Was hoping Gebrselassie would fall to me here.
8. Kobe
9. Sidney Crosby
10. Tomlinson
11. Kaka
11. LeBron James
I suppose that would make my pick #12 then
13. Seimone Augustus
14. Michael Phelps
15. Serena Williams
16. Brandon Webb (yes, I know the Twins beat him, but no pitchers have been taken, and he’s probably better than Johan at this point, right?)
16. Alex Ovechkin
17. Quinton “Rampage” Jackson
18. Ana Ivanovic
20. Chris Paul
21. (fittingly) Kevin Garnett
22. Purple Jesus
23. Kimi Raikkonen
24. John Daly (shirtless)
24. Rafael Nadal
26. Bob Sanders
26. Misty May
26. Josh Hamilton
Rand
Is this off the Wall Street Journal list of top athletes?
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-GREATEST08.html
I’ll take their #1 pick when it comes to “athletes”. (Tiger isn’t an athlete, to the WSJ)
27. Roman Sebrle
Phil Mickelson
Winged Foot aside, of course
… and the 13th at this year’s Open
31. Nastia Liukin
32. Reg Dunlop
Oh great, Stu’s daughter’s on here… Now none of us have a chance at the COW. They’re like the freakin’ royal family of RandBall.
On a serious note:
30. I’ll take Purple Jesus- he’s currently labeled as the #2 pick in Fantasy Football magazines.
I can’t believe I just drafted a [redacted] Viking.
32. Natalie Gulbis (shirtless)
Sorry I guess mine would be #31 correcting for Stu’s daughter not being able to count past 28. You can’t blame her though. After 20 it’s hard to count on your fingers and toes.
Crap!!
Proprietor already beat me to Purple Jesus. I guess I’ll change mine to Cedric Benson then. They’re about even aren’t they?
34. Roughkat
35. Tim Duncan
33. Well if we have Purple Jesus I’ll add Sweet Baby Jesus, even if it’s a little bit of a reach. I expect a lot of power out of him in the future.
36. Floyd Mayweather
37. Maria Sharapova
Stu
Can you do your next huntdown on the sports drink, “All sport”, that is shown above? At one time it was second in command behind Gatorade and I don’t think it is even sold anymore. Can you do huntdown’s on non-human’s?
37. Shawne Merriman
38. Peyton/Eli/Archie Manning
39. Lance Armstrong’s remaining testicle
41. Evgeni Malkin
42. Shaq- pre rap career. Otherwise I’d wait a round or two.
“Can you do huntdown’s on non-human’s?”
See ‘Stu’s Hunt Down: Tom Herr’ for your answer.
43. Pat Williams (shirt required)
44. Kevin McHale (The player, not the president)
Sorry. Had to skip the first couple rounds do to under the table dealings for my second COW win.
45. Chase Utley
46. Nadal
47. Tonya Harding (WWE Wrestling w/ crowbar)
