Bigger waste of time: SportsCenter’s Mt. Rushmore of Sports state-by-state promotion, or Ron Borges second-guessing the Massachusetts selections? (wise-guys save your comments about option #3–my reacting to Ron Borges second-guessing…)

Borges’s choices: Bobby Orr, Bill Russell, Ted Williams, and Rocky Marciano. Tough to argue with any of these (though he actually seems to have a tough time deciding between Ted Williams and Babe Ruth for the Red Sox representative). Probably the most controversial change is his choice to bump Tom Brady off in favor of Rocky Marciano.

Borges seems to realize that Brady is probably the most universally loved athlete in Boston right now, and pulls out all the stops in building a case for Marciano…

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