My Favorite Sports Personality Today - Tiki Barber

The NY Post's Steve Serby has a good article today on my favorite sports personality of recent years - the Giants' Tiki Barber. I see Tiki as cut from the same mold as Tony Gwynn, Barry Sanders and Julius Erving - great players who were just great guys - modest, gentlemanly and grounded, who let their hard work and quiet determination inspire others. Despite his considerable achievements on the field you won't see Tiki taking off his helmet, flexing his biceps, or other such self-congratulatory display after a run. It is a shame that young boys of all races, and young black boys in particular, tend to idolize the more bombastic and flawed personalities in the sports world today rather than guys like Tiki.