Columnists Jim Alexander and Mirjam Swanson discuss some of the week’s sports issues.
Jerry West, top down from left, Sandy Koufax and Kobe Bryant make Jim Alexander’s Southern California Mt. Rushmore and Jackie Robinson, top down from right, Billie Jean King and Vin Scully make Mirjam Swanson’s, with Magic Johnson, center, the only local icon to make both. The death of Jerry West this week got me to thinking: If there were a Southern California sports Mt.
We could go a lot of different ways with this. A coaches/managers foursome, for example. Or a Mt. Rushmore of play-by-play announcers, and how many other cities or regions in this country could have their very own wing of the Broadcasting Hall of Fame?I’ve been thinking about this since you mentioned it yesterday, it’s so tough! I like your list – the distinction of having started and ended a career with the teams definitely makes sense.
I’m proud that those two athletes – sports figures who were so much more than athletes – are from here. Hmmm … maybe we should be leading the charge to establish a Southern California Sports Hall of Fame. Who’s with us? She’s historically popular and it’s worth contemplating: Why her? And why now? As I wrote last week, I think it’s a lot of things. Her entertaining style of play. Her marvelous talent. Her record-breaking prowess. But there’s also her timing, taking the baton at a time when women’s sports – based on years of progress and efforts by people like the aforementioned King – was ready to take a big next step in relevance.
That wasn’t what a lot of people wanted to hear – including some other players in the league: How could she not see it when so much of America is focused on it? When so many of her colleagues are being subjected to the ugly rhetoric?
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