Best American athletes of the 21st century, so far?

Agreed. Probably Randy Johnson, as well.

 

Compared to Landon Donovan? @Azrael disagrees.

 

John Kruk agrees:

 

You guys are hilarious.

 

I miss arbitrarily and retroactively (and mistakingly) assigning numbers to years based on a Christian/European centric worldview. It's all made up, we can break it up into 100 year chunks however we want to.

 

@Dick Whitman, how about Amelia Boone, OCR’s first big star?

Or Rich Froning? The guy who dominated the Crossfit Games for many years?

 

Shaun White
Kelly Clark
Apolo Anton Ohno
Hannah Kearney
Billy Demong (I know, I know, you're going to say, "WHAT ABOUT TODD LODWICK?!?! But, if we're just talking from 2000 on, I gotta go Demong.)

 

Good call on Shaun White.

 

I teach forecasting a couple times a year, and you should see the looks on my students’ faces when I tell them that the January-February-March quarter isn’t necessarily the first quarter of the year. It’s the first quarter of a given calendar year, true ... but it’s also the last quarter of another year that began in the second quarter of the previous calendar year.

 

Tiger Woods aggressively agrees with this line of reasoning.

 

Interesting selective use of asterisks on this thread. They’re just the ones busted. Every sportsperson seeks an edge, even sickly Jimmie Johnson.