On the Second Day of Christmas my true love gave to me...

TIM DUNCAN LOVE!

The AP just released it's list of the Athletes of the Decade. As was the case with The Wilt Chamberlain Frequent Flyer Award, Tiger Woods topped the list. Don't worry this isn't going to be another Pinata Woods piece.

The also rans for the honor were Lance Armstrong, Roger Federer and Michael Phelps. So to some up the best athletes on the planet were a golfer, a bicyclist, a tennis player and a swimmer. The very best. Athletes. In the WORLD...really?

Raise your hand if you went to a high school where an athlete in any if those sports was considered the best athlete. Am I wrong or did everyone that ever excelled at any of those sports first fail make the football, basketball or baseball teams?

Don't think about it for too long, you know I am right. You don't even have to be in very good shape to play golf. In fact most of you drink when you play and half of you smoke.

I'll give you that the other three might be in the best shape of anyone in the decade but do you really think Lance Armstrong is an athlete? Come on, Lance grew up in Texas and took up riding a bike. You don't think that it is at least possible that he got tired of getting cut from the football team and found it humiliating being the team "manager"? What better way to keep from getting your ass kicked than to learn how to ride a bike really, really fast.

Michael Phelps looks awkward smoking pot, how good could he possibly be at something that takes eye-hand coordination? If he was any kind of athlete he would have won the gold in water polo. At least Matt Biondi did that.

As for Mr. Federer, please don't tell me that my Xenophobia is acting up again because he couldn't even make it as a soccer player in Switzerland. That's like not being good enough to make the Jamaician Bobsled Team.

Sorry folks, Tim Duncan is the Athlete of the Decade. He plays a real sport and has won multiple World Titles despite playing with someone from France.