The Sports Guy asks, "Who is the U2 of sports?"

This is an entertaining article from Bill Simmons. I'm not the world's biggest U2 fan, but I can always understand why people like them so much.

A few points:

I've never played the musicians-to-atheletes game before and trying to come up with a few of my own examples is giving me a headache. I keep wanting to compare musicians to sports franchises instead of individual atheletes.

I think there's only a 15% chance that Kurt and Courtney would be in a reality show on VH1 if Cobain were alive today, not a 90% chance as Simmons suggests. And making the jump with all of the what if's involved, the show would definitely be post divorce.

Is there some sort of special rule for atheltes that become musicians. Can Deion Sanders be Deion Sanders? Can Shaq be Shaq?

Can we directly draw a correlation between Michael Jordan's baseball carrer and Garth's Chris Gaines experiment? Or is that another game entirely?

Does anybody have any examples they want to share? I'm dying to know Keith Lockhart's musical equivalent.