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Crosby For Sportsman Of The Year
by Paul on 11/18/09 at 12:27 PM ET
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from Michael Farber of Sports Illustrated,
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Dec. 1. Here’s one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer.
The first time I saw Sidney Crosby he was a 16-year-old making the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League rounds of Halifax, Sydney, and his home base of Rimouski, which struck me as the equivalent of Mozart playing in a farmer’s field. Obviously, Crosby was a prodigy. He was exquisitely gifted for someone not physically imposing (although he did have great hockey haunches) and was blessed with a vision of the ice as instinctive as it was impressive.
“So?” a friend asked when I returned from the trip. “Real deal?”
“I’m can’t guarantee he’ll ever win the Hart,” I told him, “but I promise you he’ll never win the Lady Byng.”
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