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Ten degrees of sports phoniness

By Ralph Wiley
Page 2 columnist

Sunday, August 11, 2002

The landscape is littered with phonies these days, and not all of them are at Arthur Andersen, the illegal chop shop of the carjackers of corporate America. Sports has its share, as does my own business, I'm sorry to say. In fact, there are so many phonies running around unmuzzled that I don't have the room to mention them all. So here are 10, each an example of one of the 10 levels of sports phoniness, in ascending order from the Merely Misleading to the Truly Reprehensible. 1. "That's a Will ...

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