Right is wrong and left is … right? Seems to be. It’s not exactly a bass-ackward revolution, but left-handers are doing okay for themselves in sports these days. Or are they? The idea struck me last week when I saw highlights of college quarterbacks Josh Heupel and Matt Leinart winning BCS National Championship Games. They disappeared = Bad. Then I watched this year’s game and saw Florida’s Tim Tebow will his Gators to a title. He’s one of the best players in the history of college football = Good. The rest of the planet’s lefties are also in state of quirky so-so-ness. Rafael Nadal is the world’s No. 1 tennis player, but no lefty was among the NFL’s 32 top-rated quarterbacks this season. Dallas product and Raptors’ forward Chris Bosh is sixth in the NBA in scoring, but there isn’t a lefty among any of college basketball’s All-American probables. The highest-ranked women’s tennis player is 14th (Patty Schynder) and only one of the NBA’s top 50 scorers is lefty (Detroit’s Tayshaun Prince is 51st). In golf there are two lefties (Phil Mickelson and Mike Weir) among the top 21. In baseball the Indians’ Cliff Lee won the Cy Young and Minnesota’s Justin Morneau won the Home Run Derby and the AL MVP. In hockey, who knows? They’re all left-handed. Or is it right-handed? Locally, Josh Hamilton’s bat makes the loudest lefty noise. As for sports’ most righteous left-handers …
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