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Marsh Madness

December 12, 2007 @ 10:36

The Lou Marsh Award, emblematic of Canada’s top athlete of the year really doesn’t really mean anything anymore and it’s all Steve Nash’s fault.

Not his fault directly, but his domination of the NBA as a little white guy from Canada has exposed how political the Lou Marsh has become through an obvious insistence to spread it around.

Nash won the Lou Marsh in 2005 because there was no other choice. He had just won his first NBA MVP award.

But last year when speed skater Cindy Klassen was named winner of the Lou Marsh, Nash was coming off his second consecutive NBA MVP.

Yes, Klassen won five medals at the Turin Olympics but only one was gold and one of two silvers was a team medal.

No doubt a wonderful accomplishment but still not up the standard of what Nash had accomplished in the NBA. He should have won his second in a row.

Yesterday, Sidney Crosby won the Lou Marsh and on the surface it comes as little or no surprise to any one. He’s Sidney Crosby, he’s a hockey player. He was only 19 years old and he won the NHL scoring title.

But he did not dominate the NHL like the little white Canadian guy dominated the NBA for the third year in a row. An athletic miracle.

Steve Nash didn’t win the NBA MVP award last season but he’s still regarded as the best point guard in the league.

Sorry, but that trumps what Crosby did and Steve Nash should have received his third consecutive Lou Marsh yesterday.

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79 Responses to "Marsh Madness"


Fred Ball
December 12, 2007 / 11:48

This is not the first time this award was politiaclly motivated. Remember back in 97, Jacques Villeneuve won the award. I am a big F1 fan and even I think that Larry Walker, the first Canadian to be the MVP in baseball should have been given the award. The achievement of Walker was a more impressive effort of individual accomplishment, but no, the award had to go to the guy who received world recognition for winning races in a great car.

Maybe the people voting are the same nut job flakes from figure skating...


Steve
December 12, 2007 / 12:05

Who gives a rat’s heinie? The only thing that ever surprises me about this yearly yawner is that the Star doesn’t puff itself up and award it to the most accomplished disabled/gay/impoverished/visible minority or native athlete of the year!


LEW
December 12, 2007 / 16:11

Good debate.
I agreed with the Klassen pick, and have incredible respect for Nash (he could have been a Grizzly and would have probably saved the franchise) but there is tremendous debate on whether he should have won any MVP awards at all. I hate to be negative towards him, but he can’t play defense and the award does seem to be racially bent.
On the positive side, he not only won the MVP award he has been a great ambassador for the national program and more importantly the Steve Nash Youth Basketball League is a great success. In short, we couldn’t go wrong with Crosby, Nash and Young Klassen.


Argie
December 13, 2007 / 13:41

Lew: You’re wrong about the MVP being racially bent. When Nash won a few years ago he was the first white guy to win it 20 years.

http://www.nba.com/history/awards_mvp.html


LEW
December 13, 2007 / 18:00

Argie - I believe the argument is that Nash was the first white guy close to MVP type numbers since Bird, so he got the nod over better players.
Can you name one white player since Bird that was close let alone snubbed?


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