Remember Michael Jordan? Danny Almonte? Venus Williams or Pedro Martinez?
On September 10, 2001, these athletes were news.
Jordan was set to announce that he would return to the NBA after a brief foray in general management. Almonte was finally going to start school and pitch against kids his own age. The day before, Venus had defeated her younger sister in the U.S. Open in the first all-siblings final since 1884.
Martinez was about to scare all Red Sox fans by announcing his season was over.
It wasnt, as some media folks like to call it, a slow news day. The news about Jordan returning to basketball was enough to send ESPN into a frenzy and make sports writers everywhere summon their amazing powers of prognostication.
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