Round 3 all my dear sportsnuttz.  Buckle your seatbelts cuz you are about to go for a ride.  HA HA!  Here are the lovely topics thought up by the Ryan Seacreast of blog contest's meestah detroitsports himself.

1. Which athelete do you idolize the most and why?

2. If you could live with only 1 sport, what would it be and why?

3. Of these four people, Wayne Gretzky, Hank Aaron, Joe Montana, or Michael Jordan, who do you think made the biggest impact on his sport?

1.  My truest awnser has already been blogged about here on MAy 26th.  You can read it by scrolling down a couple blogs.  But since I do not want to submit old material, here is my next choice.

Satchel Paige.  I don't know much about him since I was not alive when he played, but what I do know is astonishing.  He was an unstoppable force in the Negro leagues posting records such as 21 straight wins and 64 consecutive scoreless innings.  Unthinkable stats.  He played year round not like today's 200 inning weenies, and even famously pitched in 29 games in one month.  He pitched year round traveling to the Carribean leagues during the Negro League off-season.  He had one goal in mind and that was to pitch in the Major Leagues.  The showman not only overcame racism but was pitching at age 42 and had an ERA of 2.48 in his first season with the Indians and in his 6 seasons had a career ERA of 3.29.   

Joe Dimaggio considered him the "best and fastest pitcher I ever faced."

I can not imagine the trials Satchell went through to accomplish his goals.  But I can and do admire both the physical and mental strength he must have had to accomplish what he did. 

Paige is a hero and Hall of Famer in every since of the word(s).

2.  Soccer.  Not only am I a firm believer that the World Cup is the greatest sporting event in the history of sporting events.  But it is also the sport I am best at.  So instead of being lousy at golf or below average at basketball I think I will go ahead and live a life of being good at soccer. 

The negative is I would not be satisfied with just MLS so I would have to get Dish TV so I could watch the foreign leagues.

If it is just what sports I would want to just watch.  There is nothing like the NFL.  Sacks, endzone dances (hopefully), breaking tackles, cheerleaders.  Football is the most entertaining sport in my book.

3.  Michael Jordan.  Not only did he change basketball but the landscape of sports media as we know it.  He is his OWN BRAND.  His logo is known around the world.  The NBA is a billion dollar industry.  High schoolers can sign 90 million dollar shoe deals before even stepping on an NBA court.  The NBA and basketball as a whole went from a niche sport to being one of the most popular sports in the world.

Tony Parker, Dirk Nowitzki, Emanuel Ginobili, Yao Ming, and more are in the NBA because Michael Jordan was a global super star.  He not only had the biggest impact on his sport but a massive impact on marketing, media, world relations, and all sports. 

He also improved relations with the universe.  Lets not forget Space Jam.  "His Airness" played against aliens for goodness sakes.  Jordan truly did change the are galaxy.