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...lose--Jim Palmer, Joe Louis, Johnny Unitas. That even if there's something poetic about competing against your mortality, no one ever wrote a poem called "To an Athlete Going Gray." Even worse than the bray of the acolytes is the example of his golf buddy Mario Lemieux, 36, who also owns a team, and returned this year at the top of his game. Jordan doesn't like to be showed...
...Like Lemieux's move, which turned his struggling franchise into a sold-out event, a Jordan comeback would help his moribund investment in the Wizards. NBA rules would require him to sell his shares in the team, as Magic Johnson did with his brief, inglorious comeback to the Lakers in 1996, but he'd surely buy them back when he hangs his Jordans up again. And meanwhile, the Wizards would draw some free agents and a whole lot of fans. (For the moment, the Wizards aren't budging from their Sept. 4 deadline for season tickets, so if Jordan doesn...
Sakic, Chris Drury, Milan Hejduk, and company will give New Jersey all that it can handle and the Devils defensive system will face more pressure than Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr could apply...
Both the NHL and NBA playoffs have boasted terrific post-seasons thus far. Mario Lemieux and Ray Bourque are still in the hunt for a Stanley Cup. In the NBA, both Eastern Conference semis were decided by a seventh game yesterday. The Lakers have dominated their competition in every game, spearheaded by excellent performances by Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant...
...couple of years ago Claude Lemieux and the Colorado Avalanche left the Detroit Red Wings a bloody mess-and Detroit has never forgiven the mountain men, even though Lemieux is now on his second team since then...