So sporting news, these sporting news, is 140 years old.

Pretty amazing.

And in honor of that birthday and before the NCAA tournament's final four, they put out late last week,

their all-time college basketball top 15 players in the form of a first team, a second team, and a third

team. Like any of these things, they'll always be debated in terms of the guys that were

left off the list for starters or put on the list. And then, you know, which team players were

on? I can just tell you that in my college basketball lifetime, the best player that I ever saw

play in college was David Thompson at NC State.

He is on the first team, and they list these based on votes, I think.

Kareem is number one, and he's considered the greatest college player of all time. He was

Lou Alcinder at the time. Number two was Oscar Robertson, Cincinnati, Bill Walton's

three, David Thompson's four, and Bill Russell played at San Francisco.

So I'll just tell you, I remember Walton at the very end, and I remember David Thompson.

I didn't see any of the other three play college.

Walton would have definitely been right there with Thompson.

David Thompson's greatness was, you know,

this was the highest flying six foot three, six foot four inch small forward you've ever

seen with an unstoppable and an unblockable jump shot. The dunk had been outlawed because of Kareem in college basketball, and he had a five-foot-six-inch

point guard named Monty Tal throwing him Alley-Upe passes, and that's where Al-A-Upe came from

in college basketball or in basketball.

It came from a receiver who played for the 49ers in football, whose name escapes

me right now.

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